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 | That was the first weakness , the first failure , which had led on , so inevitably , through the series of , not after all so many , girls who did not matter , to the girl who mattered ; and to the point where Franca 's complaisant kindness must come to an abrupt end . |
| 5 | It is early days for these schemes and , because they have not yet been tested in the courts , must come with an appropriate health warning . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Er I might come for a little while . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It then became conceivable that time might simply not be defined before a certain point ; as one goes back in time , one might come to an insurmountable barrier , a singularity , beyond which one could not go . |
| 10 | Having accounted for how action types might acquire conventional but unstructured meanings , he advances straightaway to a discussion of how one might come into an alien community and find evidence that their linguistic interactions are structured ( syntactically and semantically ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Bob 's respect for Richard Thompson might come as an initial surprise but , given some thought , it begins to make sense . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'll … he 'll come to a bad end ; yes , he will . |
| 14 | He might think he 's fallen on his feet but he 'll come to a bad end , you 'll see … ‘ |
| 15 | Staring into the pretty face for a moment , Agnes nodded , saying , ‘ That 'll come as a great surprise to him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So it 'll come in a close second . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The input for such a reflex could come from a single class of broadly tuned vertical orientation detectors . |
| 26 | When I 'd come to a safe stop and turned off the motor , I broke down and sobbed . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She 'd come to a dead end . |
| 29 | I thought we 'd come for a little walk and |
| 30 | 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 . |