Example sentences of "come [prep] a [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 2 | I 've yet to come across a school anywhere in the country that has n't welcomed the opportunity to play host to a pair of teachers . |
| 3 | Their decision came during a meeting late on Tuesday when the couple realised the tour had got off to a bad start . |
| 4 | The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing . |
| 5 | As a journalist who over the years had written-up dozens of Honours ' lists for the papers , I knew how the names came in a day early with an embargo . |
| 6 | Then his words came in a mutter so unlike his usual jaunty tones as he announced , ‘ They wo n't have me . ’ |
| 7 | Verbal abuse in the streets , broken windows and ‘ Russians go home ’ graffiti are common , and things came to a head recently in Perleberg , not far from what used to be the West/East German border . |
| 8 | As Ross came to a halt just inside the open french windows , their silk curtains billowing softly in the light breeze , the dark evening sky outside provided a dramatic background to his tall , broad-shouldered figure . |
| 9 | The voices came to a halt directly above him . |
| 10 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ she said at last , coming to a stop again behind David 's chair , ‘ is why he married me at all and why he … . ’ |
| 11 | Despite these embassy warnings matters seemed in danger of coming to a head early in 1951 . |
| 12 | You 're different , you 're dynamic , let it come across a bit more about you and you know , what a good team you are and you 've cracked it . |
| 13 | It comes in a roll rather like sticking plaster and is simply wrapped round the threads in a clockwise spiral , following the direction of the thread in several layers . |