Example sentences of "come [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We 've not come for lunch today .
2 So I says , well I 've come for Chris really .
3 He has a son who is a booby and who was loafing around his father 's yards waiting only for this young lady to come of age so that he could marry her .
4 The ship had come into service only weeks before the rescue mission .
5 They 've been going through all the lorries that 've come into Dover today with some sort of connection with the Balkans .
6 The states which made it up can be classified in several ways , but there is much to be said for distinguishing European states which had already existed in 1815 from those which had come into existence later .
7 In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms .
8 Do , Aristotle asked , all the parts of the embryo come into existence together , or do they appear in succession ?
9 In a sharply critical personal statement in the House of Commons on Nov. 13 he said that the so-called Madrid conditions for UK entry into the ERM , agreed by the European Council in June 1989 [ see pp. 36740-41 ] , had come into existence only after he and the then Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson , had made it clear that they could not continue in office unless a specific commitment to join the ERM was made , and he accused the Prime Minister of increasingly risking leading herself and others astray in matters of substance as well as of style .
10 What was visible to the eye or to the sensor , however , was a path which had come into existence long after the Simonova had vanished along its trajectory .
11 ‘ We are not against pay rises , but people have got to sensible , ’ he said , defending the three per cent ceiling on pay rises which has just come into force here .
12 Thames Water say they 'll come down hard on anyone caught breaking the new drought order which has come into force today .
13 Carter and Reagan , by contrast , had come into politics relatively late in life , had no prior experience of national politics and had become party leaders after long and expensive electoral campaigns .
14 Computers have come into schools both at secondary level and primary level .
15 FC/Open is expected to come into existence sometime next year in support of efforts to standardise high-speed fiber channel interconnects .
16 An embryonic European central bank is to come into existence soon after 1994 , the starting date of the second stage .
17 A pattern of parishes , as we know it , took centuries to come into existence anywhere in Europe .
18 And that catalyst , it seems , is unlikely to come into existence spontaneously , except under the direction of other RNA molecules .
19 In order for the exception under article 11 to come into operation so as to relieve drivers and those who permit them to drive in excess of the hours which are prescribed there must be a real emergency .
20 Believe me this law seems to come into operation unfailingly at about 3.20pm every day !
21 In most cases tropical waterlilies are purchased from specialist nurseries that remove plants from the tuber in early summer , but on occasions it is possible to obtain tubers that have just started to come into growth earlier in the year .
22 I had to come into town anyway ; it was only a short detour to your place .
23 They seemed to come into focus only slowly , a silent mass of tightly packed yellow faces glistening with perspiration ; scores of dark eyes had been watching him unwaveringly all the time , but their expressions remained uniformly blank .
24 Cadfael , will you go into the town , and ask Hugh to come into conference here this afternoon ?
25 Bus company Go-Ahead Northern is to re-route its service to Pennywell , Sunderland , from May 30 after 7.15pm to avoid the Pennywell shopping area in Portsmouth Road , where vehicles have come under attack recently by stone-throwing youths .
26 The franc had already come under pressure immediately prior to the referendum , falling on Sept. 18 to just above its F3.43 ERM floor against the deutschmark .
27 Yeah , but looking at college like I 've come from school like , and I never liked it at school .
28 Andrew Ridgley and I had both just come from school about nine months before we took off with WHAM !
29 Meanwhile the nuns will live close by , enabling them to supervise building work the money for which has come from donations worldwide .
30 Particularly bold demands were said to have come from students close to the Liberian border .
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