Example sentences of "[pron] come [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Frenchmen were keen to join up , but the snag was persuading the French authorities in the Middle East to permit them to come under British command . |
| 2 | because I 'll tell you what , I came off cold turkey , and I had the worst three days of my whole life . |
| 3 | . Orienting myself through a large cast of characters , several long flashbacks , and a variety of thrilling events in New York and Jamaica , I came across occasional reminders of the novel … |
| 4 | I came across feminist politics while I was at college in London in the mid-seventies . |
| 5 | An outspoken individualist , Sandy never left anyone in doubt about his views , and when as a newspaper editor I came under governmental pressure from time to time , Sandy was usually the first to phone his support with disdainful disregard of the fact that the telephones were tapped by the state security police . |
| 6 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 7 | I came to jammed into the corner of the work room , squatting , fists clenched , staring up at a ribbon of orange light across the ceiling and a stack of timber beside me . |
| 8 | You chose very well , I used to get really nervous when I came to Chinese restaurants , I never knew what to choose . |
| 9 | I came to sensible awareness ; to incredulous understanding . |
| 10 | I came with acute awareness to the table where Filmer was sitting with Daffodil and , careful not to look directly at either of them , put my last four glasses in a row on the tablecloth . |
| 11 | Er yes , wh yes , I came on full rate then . |
| 12 | I went to walk on Sunday evening with my daughter round the estate , and I came back and could n't get a , a breath when I came in panicked and it was a f it was a horrible feeling . |
| 13 | I had already negotiated my free transfer as part of the deal when I came from Celtic . ’ |
| 14 | We are quite enjoying the Weekly Telegraph , but I have to remind myself , when I come across possible cuttings , that you have probably seen them already . |
| 15 | Quite often while restoring antique pieces , I come across filled-in mortises or misplaced detail — evidence that they too had ruined mornings . |
| 16 | I come to Central Region quite regularly as a cycling tourist , and the train service from Edinburgh to Stirling and Dunblane is very useful because cycles can be carried on it , free of charge . |
| 17 | ‘ Well then , I 'll take it , ’ he said , ‘ because it 's all I have to prove that I come of good family . |
| 18 | There might be a third person wiser than either who is living happily and fruitfully in Bali , and remembers that both of them came with unrealistic expectations . |
| 19 | You have to remember that some of them came from remote parts of Scotland , and the stores catered for them . |
| 20 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
| 21 | The UN Security Council ultimatum , which came amidst renewed US threats of a military offensive against Iraq [ see p. 38307 ] , had been handed to government officials by a delegation of UN weapons inspectors who arrived in Baghdad on June 30 . |
| 22 | The very term necropolis , which came into common usage , harked back to the pre-Christian era . |
| 23 | Like the beta-blocking drugs which came into clinical use later , their effects were not predicted but were undoubtedly useful . |
| 24 | Since their traditional migration routes lay in areas which came under Russian influence fairly early ( Tornsk , Kuznetsk and Tara districts ) , they established economic , political and cultural contacts with them in the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | As agreed with the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries in November [ see p. 38581 ] , Vneshekonombank ( the Soviet bank for foreign economic affairs ) , which came under Russian control in December [ see p. 38581 ] , ceased principal repayments on the Soviet Union 's foreign debt from Dec. 5 . |
| 26 | The Cayman Islands , which came under British rule in 1670 , were a dependency of Jamaica until 1959 , and governed by the Governor of Jamaica until they became a United Kingdom Dependent Territory on Jamaican independence in 1962 . |
| 27 | Sterling , which came under intense selling pressure on continued reaction to August 's dire trade figures , fell to a low against the German mark at DM3.0081 on Wednesday . |
| 28 | Its berries glistened red under the burnish of the breeze , which came in uneasy gusts from the south and east . |
| 29 | If one reads the union press ; if one follows case histories of individual factories , one obtains the impression of a general intensification of the work process , which came in different ways and used different methods : reduction in labour-time on a particular machine operation ; supervision of an increased number of machines ; increased assembly line speeds ; spread of incentive payments systems ; increase in heavy and onerous work loads . |
| 30 | She held out her hand with deliberate provocation and , drawing him down on the edge of the bed beside her , she gave a little laugh which came from deep in her throat . |