Example sentences of "was [adj] come [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was odd coming over as a tragic heroine . |
| 2 | Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ? |
| 3 | The other lad who made a commitment came as a non-believer but was willing to come along with an open mind and on studying the gospels came to believe Jesus was indeed who he said he was and shortly after made his commitment . |
| 4 | Missionary Kate McBeth wrote : ‘ For a few years at first Joseph was afraid to come down upon the Nez Perce reserve — afraid of the surrounding whites and because of the many indictments against him — but this fear wore off . |
| 5 | MacLachlan , victor of eight combats over the island , was fortunate to come down on Malta itself , rather than in the sea : ‘ For what seemed like hours I hung there , apparently motionless , with Malta still as far away as ever . |
| 6 | The SparKit LSI is announcing is the self-same kit it was supposed to come up with almost two years ago — one that would have produced a Sparcstation 2 clone for $18,000 . |
| 7 | He was unfortunate to come up against West Indies , playing four fast bowlers for the first time , when he was still an inexperienced leader and the memory of Lillee and Thomson was still raw . |
| 8 | However , he was unfortunate to come up against a finely-tuned Remittance Man last March and , although Katabatic ran a cracker , mounting a ferocious challenge up the final climb , he was held by a length at the line . |
| 9 | Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the closet . |
| 10 | Sam was apt to come out with explosive , inconsequential damnations which his class bore patiently , sympathetically . |
| 11 | Certainly the Home Office was unable to come up with a convincing case against such scrutiny by a House which is ‘ elected to protect the democratic rights of [ the ] people ’ . |
| 12 | When Myra was regressed she was unable to come up with anything which might have had a distressing effect upon her before the incident with her cousin . |
| 13 | ‘ It was important to come back after Saturday , and we always want to win at home . |
| 14 | In 1982 the Institute of Hydrology carried out trials on the Trannon , and in 1986 was able to come up with a number of constructive lessons to be learned from this sorry story . |
| 15 | It was a ritual that distressed Anna Essinger and her staff but , given the pressure to move the children out of the camp so that others could take their places , nobody was able to come up with a better alternative to what was known as ‘ the market ’ . |
| 16 | Conrad ( 1965 , pp. 12–13 ) , in his interesting study of penal practice in nine different European countries , was able to come up with five postulates shared by penal administrators in all of them ; and they spell out precisely the rehabilitative programme : |
| 17 | However , its subsidiary , Barclays Direct Mortgage Services , was able to come up with the sums in a matter of days . |
| 18 | I was able to come back on that and add up the figures perfectly competently , but I can imagine that other people might not have been able to , and |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm just really happy I was able to come back in the second and third sets , ’ said Sukova , who held three set points in the first set , including two in the tie-break , before Sanchez took the decider 9–7 . |
| 20 | In addition , Alexander Hardinge , who had replaced Wigram as private secretary to the King and who constantly saw his loyalty as lying with the institution and not with the person , was available to come over at short notice and did so . |
| 21 | Pepsi outlined the problems behind their new style : ‘ It was difficult coming up with a look that was original , that did n't look like Kylie or Madonna but retained their strength — I think we 've cracked it though . ’ |
| 22 | There were a few complaints of poverty and the money was slow to come in from Norfolk and Yorkshire . |
| 23 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 24 | Helen was lovely to come back to , but by the same token it was a bigger wrench to leave her soft warm presence and venture into the inhospitable world outside . |
| 25 | But erm it was diagnosed late , you see , having polyneuritis for three months , that the er the movement was last to come back in the toes and feet . |
| 26 | Aung San got through a message that he was ready to come over to the Allies while the Japanese understood that he would be fighting for them . |
| 27 | If , for instance , A was tenant for life and B tenant in fee simple in reversion or remainder , B's death before A's would not destroy the estate in fee simple , but B 's heir , or the person to whom B had conveyed it by deed , or left it by will , was entitled to come in on A 's death . |