Example sentences of "[vb mod] come [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think you should come to a personal preview on Sunday afternoon when I shall be there making sure everything is ready for Monday . ’
2 I appeal to the Minister to give at least some consideration to how far the environmental statement should come from a neutral source rather than from the promoters .
3 They vividly recorded the perplexed reactions of evacuees , from one woman 's uneasy comment , ‘ there 's too much grass about ’ , to the London boy who was horrified that milk should come from a dirty cow and not a clean bottle .
4 As we have seen , higher education in Latin America is predominantly the prerogative of the rich and , so , to have the opportunity to display merit , the Latin American businessman must come from a wealthy background .
5 Er I might come for a little while .
6 I know that he would not like to do any injustice to the report , but if he were to read the second paragraph , which contains its judgment on the Bill , he might come to a different conclusion .
7 It might come as a huge blow to your ego , but there are women in this world who wo n't fall in a gibbering little heap at your feet every time you spare them a smile or a word .
8 ‘ He 'll … he 'll come to a bad end ; yes , he will .
9 He might think he 's fallen on his feet but he 'll come to a bad end , you 'll see … ‘
10 Staring into the pretty face for a moment , Agnes nodded , saying , ‘ That 'll come as a great surprise to him .
11 Well I thought the English one was so they 'll come as a massive shock because they 're not on the calendar cards , but no , I do n't .
12 Maybe we 'll come across a friendly native with a forked stick going in the right direction and I 'll give him the big-screen smile and hand it over .
13 So it 'll come in a close second .
14 Although it is still legal to resort to the matches this season , provided the job is done properly , a late harvest followed by a wet autumn could come as a nasty reminder that cereal-growing is not the doddle many would have us believe .
15 Now , er if we could come on a little bit , erm , tt when was it that you became sort of officially politically active , when you actually joined er joined the party ?
16 I think all these developments will be painful but could come to a good end : the genetic bad luck of a very few may , eventually , be helped by many in that general health insurance and tough anti-discrimination laws could become reality .
17 Although this grant to Ely , dated 1022 , is a likely forgery , its witness list could come from a genuine document of 1023 , as Cnut may have visited the monastery on his return to deal with trouble involving the abbot , who had recently taken his case to Rome .
18 An attendance rate of 90% , however , does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent : the missing 10% could come from a small minority of pupils with lengthy absences — the same ten pupils absent for the whole week — or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences — fifty pupils absent for one day over the course of the week .
19 In sum , therefore , an attendance rate of 90% does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent ; the missing 10% could come from a small number of pupils with lengthy absences or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences .
20 The input for such a reflex could come from a single class of broadly tuned vertical orientation detectors .
21 When I 'd come to a safe stop and turned off the motor , I broke down and sobbed .
22 Then there was a strange silence , as if we 'd come to a full stop , as if he 'd expected me to react in some other way .
23 She 'd come to a dead end .
24 I thought we 'd come for a little walk and
25 Then , just as I 'd half a mind to twiddle with the radio in case Marlene Dietrich was still on , there would be another lurch of the Tardis-like mood and I 'd come upon a garishly-lit motel , freshly shipped across from the West , or else be smartly overtaken by a monstrous new Mercedes doing 200 kph or more with effortless abandon , at least until the next plunge into potholes and waterlogged scree .
26 He concludes with a formal oath : ‘ I , the Lord , have spoken ; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me : in this wilderness they shall come to a full end , and there they shall die . ’
27 I know that I shall come with a full measure of the blessing of Christ .
28 In real time , an astronaut who fell into a black hole would come to a sticky end .
29 Now whether in fact the church meeting would come to a different conclusion from us I 've no means of knowing but probably not because most of you know something about the church that you 're working with .
30 A barrage of punches which started with a swinging left hook left Clarkson on one knee and once the action restarted and Hardy picked up the assault , it was clear the fight would come to a quick conclusion .
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