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I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bill comes to sth (= is for that amount )

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The bill came to $60.

a book comes out (= it is published for the first time )

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Everyone was waiting for the new Harry Potter book to come out.

a breeze comes through/from etc sth

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The room was hot and no breeze came through the window.

a bus comes/arrives

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I waited and waited but the bus didn't come.

a button comes off sth

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A button has come off my skirt.

a case comes before a judge/court

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The case came before the federal courts.

a case comes to court/comes before the court

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The case came to court 21 months later.

a case comes to court/comes before the court

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The case came to court 21 months later.

a case comes/goes to court

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When the case finally came to court, they were found not guilty.

a case comes/goes to trial

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By the time her case went to trial, her story had changed.

a case goes/comes to trial

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If the case ever went to trial, he would probably lose.

a climax comes

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The climax came when the President ordered an air strike on the capital.

a dream comes true (= something you want happens )

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I’d always wanted to go to Africa and at last my dream came true.

a film is released/comes out (= it is made available for people to see )

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The film is due to come out in May.

a foretaste of things to come

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Two wins at the start of the season were a foretaste of things to come .

a letter comes/arrives

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A letter came for you today.

a mark comes off/out

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I can’t get this dirty mark to come out.

a migrant comes from/to a place

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A majority of the migrants had come from this region.

a mist comes down/in (= comes to a place )

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The mist came down like a curtain.

a nightmare comes true (= something bad that someone fears actually happens )

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The company's worst financial nightmare has now come true.

a noise comes from sth

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The noise seemed to be coming from the kitchen.

a party comes to power (= begins to be the government )

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The ruling party came to power in May 2001.

a regime comes to power

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He criticised European leaders for supporting a regime that came to power through violence.

a situation comes about (= it happens )

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I don’t know how this situation has come about.

a smell comes from somewhere ( also a smell emanates from somewhere formal )

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A delicious smell of baking came from the kitchen.

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He was getting complaints about the smell emanating from his shop.

a sound comes from somewhere

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The sounds seemed to be coming from the study below.

a subject comes up (= people start talking about it )

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The subject of payment never came up.

a thought occurs to/comes to/strikes sb (= someone suddenly has a thought )

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The thought occurred to him that she might be lying.

a vacancy comes up ( also a vacancy arises/occurs formal ) (= there is a vacancy )

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A vacancy has arisen on the committee.

an act comes into force

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Since the act came into force, all public buildings must have disabled access.

an announcement comes (= it happens )

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His announcement came after two days of peace talks.

an idea comes to sb (= someone suddenly thinks of an idea )

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The idea came to me while I was having a bath.

an issue comes up ( also an issue arises formal ) (= people started to discuss it )

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The issue arose during a meeting of the Budget Committee.

an opportunity comes (along/up)

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We had outgrown our house when the opportunity came up to buy one with more land.

be in/go into/come out of hiding

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He went into hiding in 1973.

be/come close to the truth

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The book comes a little too close to the truth for their liking.

be/come under suspicion (= be thought to have probably done something wrong )

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He was still under suspicion of fraud.

be/come up to standard (= be good enough )

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Her work was not up to standard.

be/get/come home early

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Your father said he’d be home early.

blew...to kingdom come

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He left the gas on and nearly blew us all to kingdom come .

came after (= happened after it )

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People still remember the 1958 revolution and what came after .

came as something of

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The news came as something of a surprise.

came crashing down

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A large branch came crashing down .

came from far and wide (= came from many places )

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People came from far and wide to see the concert.

came in the shape of

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Help came in the shape of a $10,000 loan from his parents.

came into vogue

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Suntanning first came into vogue in the mid-1930s.

came loose (= became unattached )

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The driver had forgotten to fasten the safety chain and the trailer came loose .

came off the bench

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Simpson came off the bench to play in midfield.

came roaring back

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In the second half Leeds came roaring back with two goals in five minutes.

came running

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The children came running out of the house.

came straight out with it

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She came straight out with it and said she was leaving.

came to a close (= finished )

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The event came to a close with a disco.

came to naught (= failed )

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All their plans came to naught .

came to nought (= were not successful )

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Peace negotiations came to nought .

came to pieces (= broke into separate parts )

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The shower head just came to pieces in my hand.

came to the fore

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Environmental issues came to the fore in the 1980s.

came to visit

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I was really pleased that they came to visit me.

came under...control

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The whole of this area came under Soviet control after World War II.

came within an ace of

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The team came within an ace of winning the championship.

came...on the heels of

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The decision to buy Peters came hard on the heels of the club’s promotion to Division One.

come a long way (= developed a lot )

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Psychiatry has come a long way since the 1920s.

come any nearer

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I’m warning you – don’t come any nearer !

come around/round the bend

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Suddenly a motorbike came around the bend at top speed.

come as a blow to sb

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His sudden death came as a huge blow to us all.

come as a relief

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The court's decision came as a huge relief to Microsoft.

come as a shock (= be very unexpected )

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The collapse of the company came as a shock to us all.

come as a surprise (= be surprising )

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The announcement came as a surprise to most people.

come as no surprise (= not be surprising )

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It came as no surprise when Lester got the job.

come at a price ( also come at a high price ) (= involve suffering or a bad result )

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She won fame, but it came at a high price.

come back into fashion (= become fashionable again )

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Short skirts are coming back into fashion this year.

come back to haunt

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an error that would come back to haunt them for years to come

come down with a cold ( also go down with a cold British English ) informal (= catch one )

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A lot of people go down with colds at this time of year.

come first/last etc in a race ( also finish first/last etc in a race )

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She came third in the race.

come first/second/third etc in a competition

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Stuart came second in the swimming competition.

come for/to dinner

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Mark is coming over for dinner.

come for/to lunch (= come to someone's house for lunch )

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Can you come to lunch tomorrow?

come from a background

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Mark and I came from very similar backgrounds.

come from a different/the same mould (= be different from or similar to other things of the same type )

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He clearly comes from a different mould than his brother.

come in handy (= be useful )

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Take your swimming trunks with you – they might come in handy .

come in useful (= be useful )

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The extra income would come in useful.

come into bud (= start to produce buds )

come into conflict with sb

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Local people have often come into conflict with planning officials.

come into contact with sb (= meet or spend time with sb )

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It’s good to come into contact with people from different cultures.

come into existence (= start to exist )

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Pakistan came into existence as an independent country in 1947.

come into leaf (= start having leaves )

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The apple tree had finally come into leaf.

come into port

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We stood on the quay and watched the ships come into port.

come into possession of sth (= start having it )

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How did you come into possession of this document?

come into question (= start to be doubted )

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The special protection given to these animals has come into question in recent years.

come into sb's possession

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You have a duty not to disclose confidential information that comes into your possession.

come into view

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Suddenly the pyramids came into view.

come loose (= became loose )

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The screw has come loose .

come naturally (to sb) (= be easy for you to do because you have a natural ability )

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Speaking in public seems to come quite naturally to her.

come off a medication (= stop taking a medication )

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Coming off the medication made him more aggressive.

come off second best (= lose a game or competition, or not be as successful as someone else )

come off stage

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I came off stage last night and just collapsed in a heap.

come off/get off drugs (= stop taking drugs permanently )

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It was years before I was able to come off drugs.

come onto the market

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a revolutionary new drug that has just come onto the market

come out into the open

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She never let her dislike for him come out into the open .

come out of a coma ( also emerge from a coma formal )

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Alice wanted to be there when he came out of his coma.

come out of...shell

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She’s started to come out of her shell a little.

come quietly

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Now are you gonna come quietly , or do I have to use force?

come to a climax

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Things came to a climax with a large protest march on June 30th.

come to a standstill/bring sth to a standstill

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Strikers brought production to a standstill.

come to an abrupt end/halt etc

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The bus came to an abrupt halt.

come to an end (= end )

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Arsenal’s ten-match unbeaten run came to an end with a 3–2 defeat at United.

come to power (= start being in control )

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Tony Blair came to power in 1997.

come to sb’s assistance (= help someone )

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One of her fellow passengers came to her assistance.

come to sb’s notice (= be noticed by someone )

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This problem first came to our notice last summer.

come to the boil (= begin to boil )

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She waited for the water to come to the boil .

come to the phone

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I’m sorry, she can’t come to the phone right now.

come to the wedding

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She wrote to say she couldn’t come to the wedding.

come to/arrive at a compromise

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The negotiations took place and they arrived at a compromise.

come to/arrive at/reach a conclusion (= decide something )

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I eventually came to the conclusion that I wanted to study law.

come to/bring to/reach fruition

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His proposals only came to fruition after the war.

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Many people have worked together to bring this scheme to fruition.

come together

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The Conference called on all good men to come together to resist socialism.

come to/reach a dead end

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The negotiations have reached a dead end.

come to/rise to/achieve prominence (as sth)

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She first came to prominence as an artist in 1989.

come under attack

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Camps in the south came under attack from pro-government forces.

come under criticism/come in for criticism (= be criticized )

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The deal came under fierce criticism from other American airlines.

come under criticism/come in for criticism (= be criticized )

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The deal came under fierce criticism from other American airlines.

come under pressure

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The new Prime Minister has already come under pressure from the opposition to call an election.

come under scrutiny (= be examined )

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The cost and efficiency of the health care system has come under increasing scrutiny.

come under the heading of

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writers who might come under the heading of postmodern fiction writers

come undone

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One of these buttons has come undone .

come up for review (= be reviewed after a particular period of time has ended )

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His contract is coming up for review.

come up to/live up to sb's expectations (= be as good as someone hoped or expected )

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The match was boring, and didn't live up to our expectations at all.

come up with a design (= think of or suggest one )

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We asked the architect to come up with another design.

come up with a plan (= think of a plan )

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The chairman must come up with a plan to get the club back on its feet.

come up with a proposal (= think of one )

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The sales staff came up with an innovative proposal.

come up with a suggestion (= think of something to suggest )

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We’ve come up with five suggestions.

come up with an answer (= find a way of dealing with a problem )

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The government is struggling to come up with answers to our economic problems.

come up with an idea (= think of an idea )

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He’s always coming up with interesting ideas.

come up with/develop a theory

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These birds helped Darwin develop his theory of natural selection.

come up/down a ladder

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Dickson came up the ladder from the engine room.

come with instructions

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The tent comes with instructions on how to put it up.

come with/carry a guarantee

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The building work comes with a 30-year guarantee.

come/break out in a rash (= get a rash )

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My mother comes out in a rash if she eats seafood.

come/fall under the influence of sb/sth (= be influenced by someone or something )

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They had come under the influence of a religious sect.

come/fall within the scope of sth (= be included in it )

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Banks and building societies fall within the scope of the new legislation.

come/finish etc second

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I came second in the UK championships.

come/follow close on the heels of sth

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Yet another scandal followed close on the heels of the senator’s resignation.

come/get out of prison

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The boy just come out of prison after doing two years for assault.

come/get/reach etc home (= arrive at your home )

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It was midnight by the time we got home.

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What time are you coming home?

come/go around a corner

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At that moment, a police car came around the corner.

come/go ashore

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Seals come ashore to breed.

come/go/pass etc through an entrance

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People passed in single file through the narrow entrance.

comes apart

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The whole thing comes apart so that you can clean it.

comes complete with

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The house comes complete with swimming pool and sauna.

comes to pieces (= divides into separate parts )

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The shelving comes to pieces for easy transport.

comes up for renewal

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Mark’s contract comes up for renewal at the end of this year.

coming along...nicely (= it is growing well )

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The garden’s coming along very nicely now .

coming of age

darkness falls/comes ( also darkness descends literary )

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As darkness fell, rescue workers had to give up the search.

don’t come cheap (= are expensive )

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Air fares to Africa don’t come cheap .

fall/come into a category

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The data we collected fell into two categories.

fall/come to bits (= separate into many different parts because of being old or damaged )

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The book was so old that I was afraid it would fall to bits.

find/come up with a solution

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We are working together to find the best solution we can.

find/think of/come up with an explanation

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Scientists have been unable to find an explanation for this phenomenon.

get/come (straight) to the point (= talk about the most important thing immediately )

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I haven't got much time so let's get straight to the point.

go on strike/come out on strike (= start a strike )

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An estimated 70,000 public sector workers went on strike.

go to/come to a party ( also attend a party formal )

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Are you going to Tom’s party?

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About 500 people will attend a party in her honour.

go up/come down in sb’s estimation (= be respected or admired more or less by someone )

go/come on stage

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I never drink before going on stage.

go/come/arrive by taxi

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I went back home by taxi.

hard to come by (= difficult to find or get )

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Permanent jobs are hard to come by .

inspiration comes from sb/sth

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The architect’s chief inspiration came from Christopher Wren.

last/current/coming/next fiscal year

leave/come out of hospital British English , leave/come out of the hospital American English

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Her mother never left the hospital.

light comes from somewhere

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The only light came from the fire.

memories come flooding back (= you suddenly remember things clearly )

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Evelyn hugged her daughter, as memories came flooding back to her.

money comes from sth (= used to say how someone makes their money )

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All of Dawson’s money came from drugs.

money comes in (= is earned and received )

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Rob wasn’t working for a while, so we had less money coming in.

on a first come, first served basis

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Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis .

opposition comes from sb

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The strongest opposition came from Republican voters.

out came/jumped etc

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The egg cracked open and out came a baby chick.

reach/come to an agreement ( also conclude an agreement formal )

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It took the two sides several weeks to reach an agreement.

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The two sides failed to come to an agreement.

reach/come to/arrive at a decision (= make a decision after a lot of thought )

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We hope they will reach their decision as soon as possible.

reach/come to/grow to maturity

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These insects reach full maturity after a few weeks.

return to/come back into the fold

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The Church will welcome him back into the fold.

return/come back etc empty-handed

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I spent all morning looking for a suitable present, but came home empty-handed.

sb's wish comes true

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His wish came true when he was called up to play for England.

stars appear/come out (= appear in the sky )

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We arrived home just as the stars were coming out.

sth comes/arrives in the post

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This letter came in the post this morning.

sth enters/comes into the equation (= something begins to have an effect )

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Consumer confidence also enters the equation.

sth/sb comes to a halt (= something or someone stops moving )

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In front of them, the truck gradually slowed down and came to a halt.

Strictly Come Dancing

the coming months (= the next few months )

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Further work is planned for the coming months.

the coming year (= the year that is about to start )

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Here are some events to look out for in the coming year.

The crunch came

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The crunch came when my bank asked for my credit card back.

the fog comes down ( also the fog descends literary ) (= it appears )

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Day after day the fog came down.

the heating comes on

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The heating comes on at six.

the mail comes/arrives

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The mail had come late that day.

the moon comes out (= appears as it gets dark or a cloud moves )

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The moon came out from behind the clouds.

the pain comes and goes (= keeps starting and stopping )

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The pain comes and goes but it’s never too severe.

the rain comes down (= it falls )

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If the rain starts coming down, we can always go inside.

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The monsoon rain comes down in sheets.

the shape of things to come (= an example of the way things will develop in the future )

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This new technique is the shape of things to come .

the sun comes out (= appears when cloud moves away )

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The rain stopped and the sun came out.

the sun rises/comes up (= appears at the beginning of the day )

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As the sun rises, the birds take flight.

the tide comes in (= the sea comes nearer )

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Once the tide comes in, the cove is cut off.

there comes a point when ...

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There comes a point where you have to accept defeat.

Things have come to a pretty pass

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Things have come to a pretty pass , if you can’t say what you think without causing a fight.

When it came to the crunch

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When it came to the crunch , she couldn’t agree to marry him.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

about

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The dream of making this world into a global market can only come about by perpetuating injustice.

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The addition of neural network methods came about because of several problems.

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From what subsequently came about in history, one may say what was his intention.

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And is it not highly unlikely that there should be a rule which ensures that what we desire will come about ?

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However, we might pause to speculate how the above formulation of the Keynesian labour supply function came about .

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And many more are about coming back to school.

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No, such changes do not come about by laws, do they?

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It all comes about as deliberately, if unconsciously, contrived.

across

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You are the most stubborn, irritating child I have ever come across !

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Gore came across as an earnest, deliberately spoken politician, often gesturing with his hands.

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Seeing her husband, she set it down by the back door and came across to the stable.

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Flipping through the magazines, she came across an article on Alcoholics Anonymous.

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She still travels the world, tirelessly delivering papers at scientific gatherings and converting anyone she comes across on the way.

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Take advantage of any restroom facilities you come across .

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Advanced Hooray Most Hoorays you are likely to come across will have been educated at a public school.

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I emphasize that I have no wish to come across here as the skunk at the process improvement garden party.

along

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But no artist seems to have taken over the comic strip format whole until Art Spiegelman came along .

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The fifth to come along is my interviewee, a college classmate.

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I met Charlie, and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service.

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We have Billy Reagan, too, who is coming along nicely.

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And record years on Wall Street do not come along like the Staten Island ferry.

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Because when he was coming along he was always getting me to tell him the story about you.

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Arid as I became more relaxed our love life returned to how it was before the children came along .

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One day some tree cutters came along and they chopped down his two friends.

around

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Roy Barker is coming around with 3-1 / 4 sacks and Chris Doleman is still a force at 36.

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She will come around , in time.

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Even the business schools are coming around to that point of view.

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Then he came around the bend and saw the bicycle.

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When Matt Williams followed with a clean single back up the middle, Justice came around to score.

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Alternatives: Some of the best Sauvignons around come from New Zealand.

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And archivists seem to have come around to recognizing his leadership qualities.

back

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It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone.

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She will come back to laugh and read me books of scholars and hard-working sons.

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Why not come back to my place for coffee?

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Helen came back out with Majella.

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Sometimes a single son or daughter will give up their own home to come back and care for parents.

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People are coming back from holiday and putting their money to work.

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He'd come back and make another excuse to keep me hanging around.

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She would come back with rather strange vegetation.

by

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Then the vans were manoeuvred on to the grass verge so that the new vehicle could come by .

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If outright desire was hard to come by at City, we had our escapes.

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Jobs were difficult to come by anyway.

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I did not want to be sitting in my truck, waiting for a wolf to come by .

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Still, even in Biarritz asps are presumably hard to come by and the audience was in no mood to be critical.

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When a coffin comes by , we take our hats off and shut our mouths no matter who is in it.

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Accusations were also made against the police for active complicity in crime, but proof was difficult to come by .

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Cars came by occasionally, usually at a fairly good clip.

close

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When the chimpanzees came close to the leopard, he activated its mechanism, so that it started to move its head.

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Miguel wanted to trust Firebug; he came close to letting everything spill out.

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And if anybody came close to finding out, curtains ....

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But its spotlight circled seas at least a half-mile from him, never coming close .

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That came close to the need she felt.

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And this night, he comes close to getting seriously injured.

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But Jade Pike has come close to dying many times in the past year.

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Now Midleigh realized that no tide he had ever experienced had come close to the fury of the deceptive river.

down

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Neil was coming down the stairs as I reached the door.

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But everything that came down to us that we knew about and checked out would turn out to be wrong.

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It's come down through the years, this story.

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He came down to breakfast surprised to find cakes and candies heaped high on his plate.

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Besides which, in the long run it came down to the word of four people against one.

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So, it comes down to this.

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You're to come down at once.

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With crackling roar... it came down upon the Union line.

first

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It was up on Hugh's wall when I first came to his house in Shettleston.

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Both men and women believe that women's family responsibilities, especially if young children are involved, must come first .

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The two sources of power that first come to mind are solar and nuclear.

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When I first came here from Puerto Rico, he was there for me.

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I wish you could understand how it was, Ray, when Mike first came to Launceston.

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When she asks if there are any questions, she can guess which one will come first .

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Species: In the Latinized name for a plant, the genus comes first , then the species, a subdivision.

forward

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Evidence shows that where one victim comes forward , and an investigation starts, a trail showing unpopularity with other individuals emerges.

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Payment for councillors might also persuade more working-class representatives to come forward .

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Now I have come forward and said my piece.

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Will the owner please come forward ?

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But when a volunteer does comes forward , it often becomes clear to the group that the feared repercussions do not exist.

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Will it be any easier for defendants to find witnesses who are prepared to come forward ?

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In all, more than 20 young men, many of them former altar boys, came forward with similar stories.

here

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Isn't that what you did when you came here ?

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They come here looking for a better life, the good, old-fashioned way our grandparents did: By working for it.

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She had to leave there at fifteen and come here .

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Before Friant, Hollywood stars like Clark Gable used to come here to duck hunt.

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Let's suppose Delia did come here that afternoon.

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That is why we have come here .

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This lady here came ashore at landing point theta, and promptly collapsed.

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They will always be able to come here if we need them.

home

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In mounting dismay she peered into the gloom, the invidious nature of her position coming home to her with a vengeance.

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Had he come home alive, some reporters would have no doubt trashed the trip as a taxpayer-paid junket.

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Instead of staying the requisite two years I came home after just nine months.

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When they came home , there would be nothing they could do.

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A sharp note has come home informing me that the costume must be made by the child.

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You come home to find your Snakehead chasing your wife around the lounge.

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He came home and unlocked the front door, calling out as he came.

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She cried when she first came home .

in

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It's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door.

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No money coming in , all of that.

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She felt that they were really making progress but Sarah's friend Edie Meadows, who lived nearby, came in .

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This is where you come in .

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And that is where the three bored blacks came in .

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As he said it, Fran opened the door and came in with a basket of apples.

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Five of those who'd come in with Martinho had disappeared subsequently.

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He was not thinking now, just watching the numbers come in .

never

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And for years and years they never came near.

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No doubt her husband would never come back.

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Other nomes never came in, because it was drafty and stunk unpleasantly.

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He never came close to realizing his dream of winning the presidency.

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It never comes easily - and nothing comes just from my head.

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Sam Smith is one of many natives who wish good times had never come to Williamson County.

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But there must be the desire to see in a new way or the vision will never come .

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His greatest glory is that he can not do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him.

off

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It's not fair, I haven't come off that ladder yet.

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The schedule is this: I came off work a half-hour ago.

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Look, after coming off tour I've just got no f-ing politics, religion, anything.

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That way, a speech comes off as extemporaneous, but it flows from one idea to another.

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She came off the slope at an uncontrollable pace that took her across the clearing and into the trees.

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Also, Lett, who is terrific, comes off the ball fast and tries to fly up the field.

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White people thought our colour would come off if they stroked our skin.

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Every time they do it, it comes off like clockwork.

on

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Just before we arrived at the station, the lights came on .

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United... come on now.

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I'd hoped to come on to Prague after that.

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They started kissing so hard that the music stopped and all the lights came on , and everybody screamed and howled delightedly.

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Sam and Joe, come on .

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He called back harshly that she should come on in!

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Angry Jemson suffered the embarrassment of coming on as substitute and then being substituted himself at Carrow Road.

out

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Good may eventually come out of evil.

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While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field.

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Nevertheless, many lawyers do come out in favour of the process.

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When they came out of the oven, they looked like a tortilla, flat as a pancake.

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His final report comes out in February.

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When you come out of a tunnel, you are drained.

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And on housing estates all along the line, residents came out to watch the strange scene.

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Her breath comes out in a loud hiss.

over

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However, I had already begun the process, long before coming over , of minimizing and dismissing my cultural identity.

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I got hold of a person from Protection and Advocacy to come over and talk to me.

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To her surprise he offered to come over to the office.

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I sit down and Oy comes over again.

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About 2 o'clock that afternoon, three Allied planes came over the coast and started to drop supplies by parachute.

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After that they kept coming over and questioning me and everything....

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But I think you were right to come over and talk to me.

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One day he was in the schoolyard with Firebug when this guy named Raul came over .

round

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So you've come round here to bash-up my young brother?

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He stayed in the room for as long as he could bear it, waiting to see if Ray would come round .

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Some man came round , and James phoned me afterwards, told me what he'd said.

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The summer passed away and the golden months of autumn came round .

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As Jake started to come round the desk towards her, she turned away, averting her eyes.

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When I came round I couldn't remember anything, had no idea who I was.

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And he was so puppyish that first time they came round together to my place.

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There was a local schoolteacher coming round to give art therapy; that at least should provide some light relief.

through

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Annabel's call from Scott came through to Saracen just as dinner was announced.

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The men who came through stayed there, waiting for their ship.

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From what we know when the information did come through , it was sometimes partial and often faulty.

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A few days later, another band of Apaches came through and found one of the dead soldiers.

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Well, you could break all the moulds by smoothing the way for Mary O'Rourke to come through as your successor.

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He came through to play at our school in this long, stretch Franklin car, and we followed him into town.

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A reprieve would have come through .

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In my view Reagan had come through with flying colors.

together

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These, as he entered the headship, were coming together as a mixed voluntary-aided comprehensive high school.

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That they should come together we suppose was predestined.

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But those that come together for mutual support can and do survive.

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And just as the deal started coming together , the first hitch came: Original drummer Dusty Denham left.

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Is it a parody of the platonic republic, where politics, art and philosophy come together ?

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And along the crooked border where the landmasses once came together , the researchers made an extraordinary discovery.

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Socially, economically and in human terms, the citizens of the Community are coming together .

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But our offensive line is coming together .

up

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Can you give me one more day to come up with something?

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After two or three years, Raymond gave up coming to court to argue.

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Here's what we came up with: Gravier chartered the Jet from the Hansa Jet operation.

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His grades came up , and he got involved.

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Each of these groups came up with a list of proposals which were sent to everyone attending.

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Evidently the emergency unit was coming up First, right at us.

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Every morning I come up and comb them, keep them soft, pleasant-looking.

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I came up with Spoogie the Badly Stained Carpet, who kids love.

■ NOUN

conclusion

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King finally came to the conclusion that there was nothing he could do to help his patients lose weight.

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If you care to try building that newsletter with PagePlus, however, you might see why I came to those conclusions .

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I came to quite another conclusion after hearing the stories of their lives.

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Similarly he came to the unusual conclusion that, since colours are simply visible species, all colours must have equal validity.

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I guarantee you'd come to the same conclusion , sir.

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Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion .

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I had come to the conclusion that there was no way of putting them back.

contact

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Black spots will appear on silver if it comes into contact with dry dishwasher powder.

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Blood is very toxic to neurons, which stop working and often die when the blood comes in direct contact with them.

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The divide between the two groups is considerable yet, increasingly, they do come into contact with each other.

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They were serious shoes, meant to come in direct contact with the surface of the planet.

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She wasn't even sure why she'd been so reluctant to come into contact with him.

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But after a few steps my head came into contact with an object.

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Is there danger to those who've come into contact with them?

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They then gradually came into contact with the outside world and were lured on to government reservations run by missionaries.

end

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The overthrow of Siyad Barre came at the end of a month of intense fighting on the streets of Mogadishu.

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But like a drug-induced euphoria, the leader-inspired high may come to an end .

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But the increasingly nasty dispute came to an abrupt end as the government announced a settlement.

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A convergence of prophecies agrees that something big is coming soon, some end of cycle phenomenon.

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The ruling came at the end of a five-year legal battle between a divorced couple that cost £840,000.

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Our conversation seems to have come to an end .

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David Lawrence, whose first overseas Test came to a tragic end when he broke his kneecap while bowling.

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Nor was he willing to let bygones be bygones once a quarrel had finally come to an end .

force

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Analogue computing will come back in force .

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In 1986 the new Public Order Act came into force .

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The Convention was to come into force upon ratification by 30 states.

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The Act and Regulations of 1988 came into force on 1 December 1988.

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They are highly controversial and can not come into force until after the next election.

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A directive which comes into force next year will set rules on television advertising across frontiers.

surprise

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They came back from a surprise David Currie opener to level in the second half through Steve Walsh.

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Which should come as no surprise to anyone who has heard his songs.

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Thus the strike came as no surprise to those involved.

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I got ta tell you this comes as a surprise to me, fella.

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The retrograde rotation of Venus came as a considerable surprise .

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Of course, in one way, this comes as no surprise .

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His suicide mission came as a surprise to more people than just his family.

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This comes as no surprise to Balkan-watchers who have been following the evolving tragedy in the country.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(come) rain or shine

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Burrow runs two miles, rain or shine, everyday.

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Every morning at about 5am, come rain or shine, James Zarei leaves his South Croydon home on his morning run.

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He seldom drinks alcohol, never touches drugs, and runs six miles every morning, rain or shine.

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I kid you not: each year rain or shine, Californian Poppy.

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Scores of rambling and cycling clubs headed remorselessly for the Dales each weekend, come rain or shine.

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The working week began every Monday, rain or shine.

(come/work etc) under the umbrella of sth

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A whole range of behaviour is subsumed under the umbrella of bureaucratic self-interest.

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Finally, war served to bring all members of a society, soldier and civilian, under the umbrella of national consciousness.

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Governments also use the more industrially orientated labs under the umbrella of the Fraunhofer society.

amount/come to the same thing

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And even if it is not significant, it has the potential to be so-which amounts to the same thing.

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And literature will amount to the same thing: all writers are copycats.

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At once she thought: I could have taken two thousand, three - it would come to the same thing.

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Or rather, politics and morality come to the same thing.

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Or they act as if they do, which comes to the same thing.

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Since it formed a halo over the puck, did that amount to the same thing?

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The public purse would not get anything; after all, it all comes to the same thing.

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When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing.

be a dream come true

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But winning a honeymoon just months before your wedding is a dream come true.

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For him, being aboard the raft was a dream come true.

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For Ruth it will be a dream come true as she becomes the youngest female licensed amateur rider in history.

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It really is a dream come true.

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It would be a dream come true to be able to observe my favourite species in a more natural situation.

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That would be a dream come true, but everybody around the country wants to win it.

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Winning a number was a dream come true for Deborah Fullford of Cambridge, the final Massachusetts woman selected.

be coming up roses

be coming/falling apart at the seams

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The country's whole economy is coming apart at the seams .

be/come along

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But every now and then, a bombshell comes along .

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Let Hilda know if you are coming along .

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Nevertheless, if we allow ourselves to be swayed by every fashion that comes along , we live in a perpetual muddle.

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Radiation, coming along shortly thereafter as a therapy method, reinforced this concept of cancer as a local body problem.

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Snake come along he bite you.

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They go to a place where they can be along and be able to find their soul.

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Until you came along , Century House was right out on a limb.

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You get these crackpot ideas about helping people who come along to you with a mournful tale.

be/come on the scene

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By then, there was a boyfriend on the scene .

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All this quickness of mind, all her decisiveness had turned to mush when Mac came on the scene .

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But we must keep in mind that millions of species arose and disappeared long before mankind came on the scene .

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By then, Wife Number Five had come on the scene .

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Etty with her friend Dolly Murchie, had come on the scene .

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I try to explain that Charles was only four when I came on the scene .

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No doubt when the subsidy commissioners came on the scene they were prevailed on to restore assessments to approximately the levels of 1515.

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That is where the plugger and press officer come on the scene .

be/come under fire

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Campbell came under fire for his handling of the negotiations.

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Grain-based cereal prices already have come under fire from Capitol Hill, with a report in mid-March by Reps.

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He added that to be accurate, the aircraft would have to risk coming under fire .

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He, in turn, came under fire from conservative Republicans in his home state.

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Its stance has come under fire from the president of the private sector's wood alliance, Corma.

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Peacekeeping forces came under fire in isolated incidents.

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Sir Derek came under fire from several shareholders.

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The service came under fire as scores of roads across the province were clogged with snow, snarling traffic and causing chaos.

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When crop-dusters come under fire , it is up to DynCorp helicopter pilots to provide support.

be/come up against a (brick) wall

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She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs, only to come up against a wall .

be/come up against sb/sth

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A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands.

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And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall?

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At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State.

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Here, Wade realized, he had come up against a few firm truths.

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In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.

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The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against .

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Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.

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What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees.

be/come/go halfway to doing sth

bring sth home to sb/come home to sb

come a cropper

come adrift

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But the highlight for me was a thumping take on a buzzer which came adrift after a couple of really powerful lunges.

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Shortly after this I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift .

come alive

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Cabral looks at the clay and her face comes alive as she begins to shape it.

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Hodges' stories make history come alive .

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The streets come alive after dark.

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And the defense came alive in the second half.

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As I began to research the background and archaeology of those places, the book came alive in a different way.

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By night, the Landing comes alive with jazz and the blues.

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For most people such details might be rather boring, but Robertson makes the narrative come alive through the personalities.

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In Great Groups, talent comes alive .

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Jane Austen's ironies came alive , and the ellipses in Virginia Woolf's prose started to speak.

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The walls come alive with foaming beer and music surrounds them as the audience journeys upward in a can of Guinness.

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There were voices outside as the train came alive .

come back/down to earth (with a bump)

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Adai can come back to Earth after Gog is dead - after I am dead, perhaps.

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AIr travellers came down to earth with a bump yesterday when they joined in some charity aerobics.

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In Karuzi you quickly come down to earth .

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Maybe, but the once pricey products that use this satellite technology have come down to earth .

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Peter Lilley came down to earth .

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They recently have come down to Earth .

come between sb

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A change from Krankoor to Kranko came between the 1847 and 1848 volumes, soon after Theunis's death.

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A true cat always comes between you and your newspaper.

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He has come between us and ruined our lives.

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No time lag should come between demand and supply.

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The bulk of the decline in traditional families came between 1970 and 1980, with smaller decreases since then.

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The Voice had come between them.

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Westward the Hudson came between Sammler and the great Spry industries of New Jersey.

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Yet again the business of running the hotel had come between them when they had something important to sort out.

come clean

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It's time the government came clean about its plans to raise income tax.

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The bank eventually came clean and admitted they had made a mistake.

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And when you picked hold of the fish and got hold of a piece it would come clean away.

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He felt happy to finally be able to come clean about it, but he felt her withdraw.

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In addition, you risk being fired when you come clean , another attorney pointed out.

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Labour will not come clean with its figures, so it is bound to describe ours as jiggery-pokery.

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So when the station came clean , they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias.

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Still, I must come clean .

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That is all very well, but why does he not come clean and give us Labour's figures?

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That night, at dinner, David and I came clean , and told our friends about singing to fish.

come close (to doing sth)

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A loose end, Kirov reminded himself as he came close to the man.

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A visit to the ancient ruins, especially on a quiet weekday, comes close to a religious experience.

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And this night, he comes close to getting seriously injured.

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Even La Scala, where an opening-night stall seat goes for £500, rarely comes close to breaking even.

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He can come close , perhaps, but the closer he comes, the greater the risk of slippage.

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Her horse came close and watched her.

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Later Mr O'Malley came close to confirming that his party would quit the coalition later this week.

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Miguel wanted to trust Firebug; he came close to letting everything spill out.

come down on sb like a ton of bricks

come down the pike

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Job opportunities like this don't come down the pike that often.

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Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike ?

come first

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Alma's family will always come first with her.

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For me, over the years, work came first , family came second.

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The rains came first , then the storms.

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And, like most important values, it came first from my family and was reinforced by good teachers.

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Angie Costello came first to mind, a bright lipsticked smile above a striped blue apron.

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But Rosie had come first , and real people mattered more than fantasies.

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Culture in Berlin came first through state institutions, and developed very late and all at once.

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I came first to the Flat Garden, with its bonsai azaleas, temple statuary, and a stunning view of Portland.

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The theory always came first , put forward from the desire to have an elegant and consistent mathematical model.

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This is where all bad accidents come first and have their clothes removed and first transfusions.

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Which came first , the decline in public interest or the decline in political news?

come hell or high water

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Come hell or high water, he'd never missed a race and he wasn't going to miss this one.

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I'll be there in time. Don't worry. Come hell or high water.

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I said I'd do it, so I will, come hell or high water.

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My father felt I should stay in my marriage come hell or high water.

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She'd come this far to say her piece and say it she would, come hell or high water.

come in from the cold

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But 20 years have at least seen her interests come in from the cold .

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But we have come in from the cold to bring back a sneak preview.

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Never come in from the cold and toast by a hot fire.

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Timothy Cranmer did not come in from the cold , exactly.

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Voice over Another faithful sign that winter is truly upon us, is when wildlife comes in from the cold .

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Who exactly was coming in from the cold ?

come into being/be brought into being

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New democracies have come into being since the end of the Cold War.

come into focus/bring sth into focus

come into force/bring sth into force

come into sight

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We stood at the window until their car came into sight .

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After a moment they came into sight .

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But they instantly look the other way when he and his motorcade come into sight .

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But when the lane curved, a tavern came into sight and she went in.

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He'd have plenty of time to drive down when the target vehicle came into sight .

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He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road.

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The camp came into sight at the bottom of the road.

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The carob came into sight below.

come into the world

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He gave her a child every year, but was never there when it came into the world .

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He looked as if he came into the world fighting.

come into use

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Tanning beds came into use around 1979.

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Doors were fitted and it came into use on 7 September.

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Doubtless, this instability will continue as more sophisticated techniques of diagnosis come into use by the medical profession.

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It came into use around the turn of the century.

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The new register comes into use the following February.

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The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use .

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There were many different drugs coming into use .

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Various kinds of minuscule came into use , such as the humanistic and the Carolingian.

come of age

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Emma will inherit a fortune when she comes of age .

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In the 1940s, movies really came of age as a creative art form.

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Mozart's music came of age when the baroque style was at its height.

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They planned to marry as soon as she came of age .

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Britain's adopted children had come of age .

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Could 1992 be the year when the environmental revolution really comes of age ?

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Duroc had had to come of age and replace the older Duroc in the service of Nguyen Seth.

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His leap from collector to seller may be the surest sign yet that road-map collecting has come of age .

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However, you will come of age in two months.

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It must be child development with this goal: that every child be ready for school when that child comes of age .

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Morris came of age in the 1850s.

come off worst

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Alec Davidson, for example, was one of those who came off worst .

come on stream

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The new plant will come on stream at the end of the year.

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A seventy million pounds engine plant came on stream three years ago producing engines for Rover.

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If successful, the trust will come on stream in April, 1993.

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No new cases would come on stream for us to deal with.

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Norton believes privatisation of electricity and water companies means more funds will come on stream .

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The Lomond platform is due to come on stream in April.

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The plant is scheduled to come on stream in the spring of 1992.

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They will be concentrated in the same industries and come on stream as the economy is beginning its recovery from the depression.

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With more and more reactors coming on stream every year, it was inevitable that problems would begin to occur.

come out of sth/come up smelling of roses

come out of the closet

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The trial brought the issue of sexual harassment out of the closet .

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Once people decide to come out of the closet , it is pretty easy to do here.

come out on top

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In a survey of customer preference, one model came consistently out on top .

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In all action movies, the hero always comes out on top .

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Usually the team with the most talent comes out on top .

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Anthony Courtney's warnings welled up again, coupled with a new determination to come out on top .

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Both individuals should feel they come out on top .

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But Tsongas turned those views around when he came out on top , beating rival Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.

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But WindowWorks comes out on top .

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The hero or heroine must ultimately come out on top .

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While Gladiator came out on top , the contest was far from a shoo-in.

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Yet, if they are in one, most men want to come out on top .

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You could sum up the event by saying a batch of first-time nominees came out on top this year.

come sb's way

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We're determined to take every opportunity that comes our way .

come to a head

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The situation came to a head when the workers went out on strike.

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Despite these embassy warnings matters seemed in danger of coming to a head early in 1951.

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Frictions between the Truman administration and MacArthur on the conduct of the war came to a head in April 1951.

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It all came to a head a couple weekends back.

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It was a struggle which came to a head in the reign of Edward the Confessor, which began in 1042.

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Matters finally came to a head about six weeks ago when my wife and I went out to dinner with another couple.

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That part of the debate should come to a head in December, when commissioners are scheduled to formally approve the projects.

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They came to a head in 1562 at the Council of Trent, reconvened after a ten-year break.

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Yet, even as this crisis came to a head , the bishops remained unrepentant.

come to a pretty pass

come to a pretty/sorry pass

come to a stop

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The elevator finally came to a stop at the 56th floor.

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An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.

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As it came to a stop , it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.

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He had given no sign of injury until we came to a stop .

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His looking finally came to a stop at the Big Nurse.

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Lacuna came to a stop behind her, and pulled her gently into an embrace that for once was nothing but tender.

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The elevator rose smoothly, then came to a stop .

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We came to a stop outside my bedroom door and he made a lurching movement.

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With a triumphant belch, the train came to a stop and soon from a first-class carriage the beloved figure emerged.

come to blows (with sb)

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He and John, the Red Comyn, had come to blows before.

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The effect was unnerving, and at first I thought the old men would come to blows .

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The two actors reputedly almost came to blows and ended the film not talking to each other.

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The two of them shouted at each other and until Daley stomped out, the secretaries feared they would come to blows .

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They came to blows in Jersey last weekend and Speedie was fined £50 in court.

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Two men had come to blows , an arm had been broken.

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We curse and leave the room or even come to blows .

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When Antony and Cleopatra come to blows , the scene explodes.

come to grief

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But out of sight at the other end of the course, Mr Hill had also come to grief .

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Far from remaining a hero, he came to grief .

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She'd come to grief acting like that, but not from him.

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The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief , and it is not altogether surprising that it does.

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Then might not the rotting stump of the tree split under their weight and they come to grief ?

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This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence.

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When it comes to that interesting pastime, most members of most species come to grief .

come to hand

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And any missile that came to hand .

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Departmental staff are encouraged to share information as recorded, and other information as it comes to hand .

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Harrison, ever practical and resourceful, took what materials came to hand , and handled them well.

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No suitable material came to hand for the box hedges.

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The first item that came to hand was the flower.

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Then they replaced the nonfiction temporarily, as the volumes came to hand , and started on the second half.

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Until today, that was, when suddenly two very different pieces of information had come to hand .

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You're trying for something that's funky, something that sounds good, and you just grab whatever comes to hand .

come to heel

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During their bizarre courtship she was his willing puppy who came to heel when he whistled.

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Sometimes they succeed in pressuring others to come to heel .

come to life/roar into life/splutter into life etc

come to light/be brought to light

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It eventually came to light that the CIA had information about a security problem.

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But as Judge Priore's investigation continues, more mysteries come to light .

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Few such blemishes, given the secrecy of organizational practice, came to light .

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However, very interesting dynamics regarding the competition and market structure are coming to light .

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It is a complete mystery to everyone how the following gems came to light in 1989.

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The debate might have been clarified by study of the relevant Sanskrit texts: but these came to light only slowly.

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The problem came to light when an ambulance was delayed attending an emergency at Harwood-in-Teesdale, just before Christmas.

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The relationship came to light when a mysterious note was handed to a barrister at an earlier hearing.

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This came to light in the present century during widening and repair operations.

come to no harm/not come to any harm

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Fortunately, none of the hostages came to any serious harm .

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I'm sure Craig's old enough to catch a train into town without coming to any harm .

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If you keep quiet, you'll come to no harm .

come to nothing

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But it had come to nothing , and in the process he had recognised the truth behind his motives.

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Crack addicts, criminals, people whose lives have come to nothing .

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Even Sam Smith's valiant attempts to reduce the deficit came to nothing .

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If this was the intention it came to nothing , for the title was abolished in 1554.

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Plots to dispose of him came to nothing .

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Sadly it has come to nothing .

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Speculation that the deputy chairman, Lord Barnett, might also be removed came to nothing .

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Without action your job hunting will come to nothing .

come to rest

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Lynn's eyes came to rest on a framed picture on the bookshelf.

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The plane skidded along the runway and came to rest in a cornfield.

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A curlew called out as it rose above the waters, then came to rest alongside its mate among the rushes.

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Ahab abandons his watch and walks about the deck finally coming to rest against the rail.

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Finally the raft came to rest , sitting just below the tideline.

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From time to time she would glance back into the room, her eyes coming to rest on the casually seated figure of Tsu Ma.

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His second shot came to rest in a greenside bunker.

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Meanwhile, we spun out and came to rest with the car still running.

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She woke slowly from a vague dream as an errant breeze drifted over her face, coming to rest on her mouth.

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Those which happen to come to rest in a non-absorbing direction will absorb no more photons, and will thereafter stay put.

come to sb's attention

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Cuttings that should come to everybody's attention quickly can be pinned to the library noticeboard or contained in a monthly newsletter.

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I pay tribute to the fairness of the Home Office in dealing with the cases that have come to my attention .

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It's just come to my attention that he might have corresponded with Christabel LaMotte.

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Small strokes of frontal lobe seldom come to the attention of neurologists.

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Then it came to the attention of Edward Hooper, an unusually tenacious man.

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Unlike venereal disease, leprosy came to Western attention relatively late.

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We maintain a computerised database of potential acquirers against which we screen all opportunities that come to our attention .

come to terms with sth

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It took years for Rob to come to terms with his mother's death.

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An individual's sexuality is their own affair and they will come to terms with it when they are ready to.

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Four died in hospital and Emma Hartley, one of the survivors, was trying to come to terms with that.

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He sat at the window, staring out into the night trying to come to terms with the anger that overwhelmed him.

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I had to come to terms with that.

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It helps the young reader to come to terms with his or her own non-rational, unconscious-dominated behaviour.

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Only by finding each other again can they hope to come to terms with their tragedy.

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Refusing to come to terms with reality harms us and, incidentally, deceives no one else for long.

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They've been trying to come to terms with what's happened ever since.

come to the/sb's rescue

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Alberto has come to the rescue with One Step, a great new two-in-one shampoo and conditioner.

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And I could see no more, until the cavalry came to the rescue .

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But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue .

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But once again ingenuity came to the rescue .

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In theory, the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue .

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Once again, Ashputtel sang her song for the birds; once again they came to her rescue .

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The designer from Mark Wilkinson, Debbie Weston, came to the rescue and suggested custom-painted ones.

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The thirty-day rule comes to the rescue for thirty days.

come to/meet a sticky end

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I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends.

come true

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After 21 years, Carl's dream of owning a home came true .

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Patterson's dream came true when he won the Boston marathon on his first attempt.

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People say that if you make a wish at the top of the hill, it always comes true .

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And in no time at all, they see their dreams come true .

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But it is not a dream that is likely to come true , though perhaps not for the obvious reason.

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Ideas become a bit confused by the fact they feel a dream has come true .

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She was glad to see such a love story come true before her eyes.

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She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true .

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This is the land where dreams come true if you really, honestly want them to.

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This was a dream that came true .

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We thought maybe our worst nightmare came true .

come unglued

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If someone talked to me like that, I would just come unglued .

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When his parents got divorced, his whole world came unglued .

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Robbins, whose analogies tend strongly toward food, explained what happens when something comes unglued .

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What on earth was it about him that he could make her come unglued with just a single look?

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You can turn the Mustang into any bend at any speed and it won't ever come unglued .

come unstuck

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Another day we nearly came unstuck altogether.

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Because many skiers rely on skidding, they come unstuck in deep snow.

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Billy says that he first came unstuck in time in 1944, long before his trip to Tralfamadore.

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But even that achievement is now in danger of coming unstuck , as Larry Elliott points out on page 12.

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He told about having come unstuck in time.

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The layers of secrecy have come unstuck with time.

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This week, however, they came unstuck .

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Where I really came unstuck arguing with von Kranksch was on the subject of crystals.

come up short

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We've been to the state tournament four times, but we've come up short every time.

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He struck the ball tentatively, and it came up short .

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I went home, wanting to do something very special, but came up short .

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If we keep coming up short , tax the Patagonians.

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Judged by their own standards, they came up short .

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Kansas played well for 38 minutes but came up short in the end.

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Riley keeps coming up short , but insists on coming right back to pound the same hammer with the same nail.

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This analysis often reveals why some groups regularly succeed and others regularly come up short .

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We're so close to getting the job done, but we keep coming up short .

come up with the goods/deliver the goods

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Neil Young's annual fall concert always delivers the goods with famous musicians and good music.

come within a whisker of (doing) sth

come/be on stream

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A seventy million pounds engine plant came on stream three years ago producing engines for Rover.

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Norton believes privatisation of electricity and water companies means more funds will come on stream.

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The Lomond platform is due to come on stream in April.

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The plant is scheduled to come on stream in the spring of 1992.

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They will be concentrated in the same industries and come on stream as the economy is beginning its recovery from the depression.

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Those two plants came on stream at a time when we needed all the capacity they could provide.

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Two years later, the new developments are on stream, bringing the target of 400 job opportunities even closer.

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With more and more reactors coming on stream every year, it was inevitable that problems would begin to occur.

come/follow hot on the heels of sth

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It comes hot on the heels of the C5 saloon we showed you last week.

come/get to grips with sth

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At that time, she was still coming to grips with her unexpected plunge into social activism.

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BInstitutions are just now coming to grips with the consequences.

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In my view this is an evasion of the teacher's duty to enable pupils to get to grips with academic language.

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Neither Jantzen nor McFague really gets to grips with the philosophical issues involved.

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Now he's getting to grips with his injuries.

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The whole program works very well, I still seem to have problems in getting to grips with some areas.

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Tutorials on disk are the latest way to get to grips with problem areas.

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We are still trying to come to grips with the problems identified by the Romantics.

come/go along for the ride

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I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd go along for the ride .

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But do members just go along for the ride ?

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His pride would never let Olajuwon simply go along for the ride .

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I was wondering if you fancied coming along for the ride .

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I went along for the ride .

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Lord knows where they're heading, but you really should go along for the ride .

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Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride .

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Other major players in the Las Vegas casino market came along for the ride .

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The dancers were flown to Washington, with Talley Beatty going along for the ride .

come/go full circle

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After the experiments of the 1960s, education has come full circle in its methods of teaching reading.

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A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle .

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Cross the Bahnhof bridge, and you will have come full circle back to the starting point.

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In a way, we've almost come full circle back to what I was trained to do, which is teaching.

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Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle .

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So we have come full circle .

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The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle .

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Thus the research has come full circle .

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Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle .

come/go under the hammer

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A collection of prints and paintings by Picasso came under the hammer at Sotheby's yesterday.

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Three Renoir paintings will come under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.

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As for football, it also came under the hammer for the usual reasons.

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Hundreds of items go under the hammer to save a medieval manor.

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In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction.

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It was part of the contents of a unique toy museum in Buckinghamshire most of which came under the hammer today.

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Read in studio A collection of battered old toys has come under the hammer at an auction today.

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So that and nearly 500 other lots will go under the hammer at Sotherbys tomorrow.

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The rest of his collection is going under the hammer .

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They will go under the hammer at the London auctioneers Spink on 17 May.

come/go with the territory

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I expected the criticism it comes with the territory when you're a public figure.

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As economies mature, they say, economic slowdown comes with the territory .

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Dealing with the guest who is in a delicate business situation or just a very bad mood all goes with the territory .

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Death always went with the territory .

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Human rights abuses go with the territory .

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Most of us have been doing this for a long time, and it goes with the territory .

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She just said she felt it went with the territory .

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Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory .

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The strain, the negativity, the isolation all came with the territory .

come/go/get along

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Depending on the circumstances, I was willing to go along .

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I went along the colonnade to the corner of the southern front of the house.

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In the best programs, 3-and 4-year-olds learn social skills, how to share and get along .

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Rashly volunteering to be a contestant, I went along the previous Saturday to practice.

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She said she does not get along well with her children and can not get them to clean.

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She wants to go along too.

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The countries in the region do not want Kosovo independence, and Washington appears to go along with that view.

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Why don't you ask Brenda and Belinda to come along to Friday meetings?

come/go/turn full circle

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A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.

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Now his fortunes are poised to turn full circle again.

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Now the pattern has turned full circle.

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Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle.

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The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle.

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The wheel has turned full circle in the past 25 years.

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Thus the research has come full circle.

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Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.

come/roll/jerk/skid etc to a stop

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A limousine carrying Harris and several other black passengers jerked to a stop .

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An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.

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And moments later he comes to a stop .

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As it came to a stop , it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.

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He had given no sign of injury until we came to a stop .

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It swerved wildly towards the wall, bounced over the pavement and came to a stop four feet from the concrete wall.

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Once it has been consumed, the Darwinian machine comes to a stop .

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When it jerked to a stop they were led out into a narrow carpeted passage.

come/spring to mind

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All of this comes to mind because of the movies.

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As I thought about this, two questions kept coming to mind .

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Dell and Elonex immediately spring to mind .

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Faded was the word that sprang to mind - everything had a rather tired quality about it.

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He waited for something to come to mind .

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Multiple calamities had come to mind .

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Three possible explanations come to mind .

come/turn up trumps

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And a dream come true ... The advert for grandparents that came up trumps .

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Conrad Allen came up trumps again, finishing fourth in the boys 800 metres in a personal best 2 mins. 22.

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Ibanez seem to have taken another daring step in their continuing success story and come up trumps once again.

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In part two: Four of a kind ... Durnin plays the winning hand as United come up trumps against Luton.

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You've come up trumps , Derek.

crawl/come out of the woodwork

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Creativity was coming out of the woodwork .

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There are wallabies crawling out of the woodwork .

easy come, easy go

feel peculiar/come over all peculiar

first come, first served

go up/come down in the world

go/come along

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A Democratic Capitol Hill aide said it's too early to tell whether Congress will go along with the proposal.

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Gingrich listened carefully to the Tuesday Lunch Bunch, and sometimes came along to their meetings.

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If you would like to reassess your life and learn how to use stress to your advantage, come along .

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Other religious schools unwilling to go along with them should no longer expect state funding.

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Sam Fermoyle came along West Street.

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So I agreed to go along .

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The discussion groups were relatively open, and many people came along as friends of friends.

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Until Green Bay came along , either one of these two teams was going to win the Super Bowl.

go/come/be down to the wire

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We were in a couple of games that went right down to the wire .

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In the event the starting line-up went down to the wire .

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It is down to the wire .

have sth coming out (of) your ears

here comes sb/sth

how come?

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How come he's asked us to spend all this money and not them?

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How come I can't make her happy, how come she can't make me happy?

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How come Mrs Wall-Eye know my name?

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How come the vast majority of the population appears to want to play make-believe?

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How come you never asked me what happened?

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Joey, how come you never sweet-talk me in person?

if the worst comes to the worst

it will all come out in the wash

kingdom come

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As you are risen, it is new kingdom come. 17.

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He heard Barnabas hit the study floor running, scattering a braided rug to kingdom come.

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He nearly blew us all to kingdom come once ....

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His movements came within inches of blowing them all to kingdom come.

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The people in the kingdom came to love Aladdin, and the sultan made him a captain in the army.

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The truck was blown to kingdom come.

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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

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Ya do one fucken thing wrong in yur whole goddamn life an ya got ta pay fer it till kingdom come!

not come near sb/sth

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Bankside activity has reached such a pitch, even at night, that the carp will not come near the margins.

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Her fiance, the man who was supposed to love her, had not come near her since her father's death.

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My wife would not come near me.

rise/come back/return from the dead

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A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune.

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Friends don't come back from the dead , Leila thought, rampaging through the corridor from the canteen.

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The single engine airplane business came back from the dead after the General Aviation Revitalization Act made it harder to sue.

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When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer.

sb's chickens have come home to roost

sb's number comes up

sth would not come/go amiss

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A last round of the rooms wouldn't come amiss .

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A little humility in the medical debate would not go amiss .

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A little thank you to the Ombudsman would not go amiss . --------------------.

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A tankful of petrol wouldn't come amiss .

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Adding a few seconds to your dev.time to allow for the stop, etc. wouldn't go amiss .

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An apology wouldn't go amiss .

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In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss .

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This remained a most important consideration, but some relaxation of the original prohibition would not go amiss .

take each day as it comes

take effect/come into effect

that's rich (coming from him/you etc)

the coming of sth/sb

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All around the globe at this time of year people celebrate the coming of new life into the world.

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Formerly it heralded special occasions and, it is said, will be blown to announce the coming of the Messiah.

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From my earliest childhood, I had heard people talk of the coming of better times, of the redemption of mankind.

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In short, nowhere illustrates better than Mississippi the coming of age of the Republican Party in the South.

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Mrs Moore sat with Lily's pale hand in hers and talked with desperate gaiety about the coming of spring.

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With the coming of full consciousness among these and related currents, Trotskyism will become a powerful current.

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With the coming of the Reagan administration, however, Hermann was told to clean out his desk.

till the cows come home

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They stay up and play cards till the cows come home.

when/if it comes to the point

when/if push comes to shove

which came first, the chicken or the egg?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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Come a little closer.

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Can Billy come too?

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Can you come to my party?

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Christianity came to Russia in 989.

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Has the mail come yet?

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My mother's saying she won't come if Richard's here.

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Sarah's coming later on.

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Some of the birds have come thousands of miles to winter here.

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The camera comes complete with batteries.

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The morning sun came through the doorway.

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The phone bill came at a bad time.

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We're having a meal at my home tomorrow night. Do you want to come ?

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We come here every summer.

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What time is Dad coming home?

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When the visitors come , send them up to my office.

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Winter came early that year.

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You should have come to the concert -- it was really good.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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After supper on my first night back, Clarisa took Janir to bed and never came out of her room.

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But when she came up to me after that third seminar I was so shocked and embarrassed that I could barely speak.

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He rolled a couple of yards downhill and came to rest in a dwarf willow bush.

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I came to dance thinking it was the art of motion, the art of action.

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Just as our house came into view, one of our horses trotted up to visit.

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The excitement comes in the planning of a job from its very birth.

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You want to come with me?

II. noun

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(come) rain or shine

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Burrow runs two miles, rain or shine, everyday.

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Every morning at about 5am, come rain or shine, James Zarei leaves his South Croydon home on his morning run.

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He seldom drinks alcohol, never touches drugs, and runs six miles every morning, rain or shine.

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I kid you not: each year rain or shine, Californian Poppy.

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Scores of rambling and cycling clubs headed remorselessly for the Dales each weekend, come rain or shine.

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The working week began every Monday, rain or shine.

(come/work etc) under the umbrella of sth

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A whole range of behaviour is subsumed under the umbrella of bureaucratic self-interest.

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Finally, war served to bring all members of a society, soldier and civilian, under the umbrella of national consciousness.

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Governments also use the more industrially orientated labs under the umbrella of the Fraunhofer society.

(now I) come to think of it

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But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John.

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Come to think of it, Columbia wouldn't have been around if it hadn't been for the blues.

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Come to think of it, even Hillary Rodham Clinton could learn something from Alexander about how to invest her money.

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Come to think of it, he'd seemed rather a decent chap, some one it might be worth getting to know.

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Come to think of it, they might want to hang on to those packing crates.

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So did Mom, come to think of it.

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You never know, come to think of it.

amount/come to the same thing

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And even if it is not significant, it has the potential to be so-which amounts to the same thing.

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And literature will amount to the same thing: all writers are copycats.

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At once she thought: I could have taken two thousand, three - it would come to the same thing.

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Or rather, politics and morality come to the same thing.

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Or they act as if they do, which comes to the same thing.

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Since it formed a halo over the puck, did that amount to the same thing?

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The public purse would not get anything; after all, it all comes to the same thing.

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When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing.

be a dream come true

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But winning a honeymoon just months before your wedding is a dream come true.

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For him, being aboard the raft was a dream come true.

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For Ruth it will be a dream come true as she becomes the youngest female licensed amateur rider in history.

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It really is a dream come true.

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It would be a dream come true to be able to observe my favourite species in a more natural situation.

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That would be a dream come true, but everybody around the country wants to win it.

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Winning a number was a dream come true for Deborah Fullford of Cambridge, the final Massachusetts woman selected.

be/come along

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But every now and then, a bombshell comes along .

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Let Hilda know if you are coming along .

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Nevertheless, if we allow ourselves to be swayed by every fashion that comes along , we live in a perpetual muddle.

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Radiation, coming along shortly thereafter as a therapy method, reinforced this concept of cancer as a local body problem.

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Snake come along he bite you.

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They go to a place where they can be along and be able to find their soul.

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Until you came along , Century House was right out on a limb.

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You get these crackpot ideas about helping people who come along to you with a mournful tale.

be/come on the scene

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By then, there was a boyfriend on the scene .

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All this quickness of mind, all her decisiveness had turned to mush when Mac came on the scene .

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But we must keep in mind that millions of species arose and disappeared long before mankind came on the scene .

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By then, Wife Number Five had come on the scene .

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Etty with her friend Dolly Murchie, had come on the scene .

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I try to explain that Charles was only four when I came on the scene .

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No doubt when the subsidy commissioners came on the scene they were prevailed on to restore assessments to approximately the levels of 1515.

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That is where the plugger and press officer come on the scene .

be/come under fire

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Campbell came under fire for his handling of the negotiations.

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Grain-based cereal prices already have come under fire from Capitol Hill, with a report in mid-March by Reps.

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He added that to be accurate, the aircraft would have to risk coming under fire .

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He, in turn, came under fire from conservative Republicans in his home state.

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Its stance has come under fire from the president of the private sector's wood alliance, Corma.

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Peacekeeping forces came under fire in isolated incidents.

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Sir Derek came under fire from several shareholders.

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The service came under fire as scores of roads across the province were clogged with snow, snarling traffic and causing chaos.

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When crop-dusters come under fire , it is up to DynCorp helicopter pilots to provide support.

be/come up against a (brick) wall

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She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs, only to come up against a wall .

be/come up against sb/sth

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A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands.

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And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall?

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At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State.

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Here, Wade realized, he had come up against a few firm truths.

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In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.

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The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against .

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Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.

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What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees.

be/come/go halfway to doing sth

bring sth home to sb/come home to sb

come a cropper

come adrift

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But the highlight for me was a thumping take on a buzzer which came adrift after a couple of really powerful lunges.

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Shortly after this I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift .

come alive

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Cabral looks at the clay and her face comes alive as she begins to shape it.

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Hodges' stories make history come alive .

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The streets come alive after dark.

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And the defense came alive in the second half.

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As I began to research the background and archaeology of those places, the book came alive in a different way.

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By night, the Landing comes alive with jazz and the blues.

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For most people such details might be rather boring, but Robertson makes the narrative come alive through the personalities.

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In Great Groups, talent comes alive .

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Jane Austen's ironies came alive , and the ellipses in Virginia Woolf's prose started to speak.

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The walls come alive with foaming beer and music surrounds them as the audience journeys upward in a can of Guinness.

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There were voices outside as the train came alive .

come back/down to earth (with a bump)

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Adai can come back to Earth after Gog is dead - after I am dead, perhaps.

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AIr travellers came down to earth with a bump yesterday when they joined in some charity aerobics.

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In Karuzi you quickly come down to earth .

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Maybe, but the once pricey products that use this satellite technology have come down to earth .

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Peter Lilley came down to earth .

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They recently have come down to Earth .

come between sb

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A change from Krankoor to Kranko came between the 1847 and 1848 volumes, soon after Theunis's death.

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A true cat always comes between you and your newspaper.

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He has come between us and ruined our lives.

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No time lag should come between demand and supply.

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The bulk of the decline in traditional families came between 1970 and 1980, with smaller decreases since then.

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The Voice had come between them.

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Westward the Hudson came between Sammler and the great Spry industries of New Jersey.

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Yet again the business of running the hotel had come between them when they had something important to sort out.

come clean

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It's time the government came clean about its plans to raise income tax.

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The bank eventually came clean and admitted they had made a mistake.

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And when you picked hold of the fish and got hold of a piece it would come clean away.

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He felt happy to finally be able to come clean about it, but he felt her withdraw.

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In addition, you risk being fired when you come clean , another attorney pointed out.

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Labour will not come clean with its figures, so it is bound to describe ours as jiggery-pokery.

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So when the station came clean , they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias.

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Still, I must come clean .

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That is all very well, but why does he not come clean and give us Labour's figures?

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That night, at dinner, David and I came clean , and told our friends about singing to fish.

come close (to doing sth)

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A loose end, Kirov reminded himself as he came close to the man.

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A visit to the ancient ruins, especially on a quiet weekday, comes close to a religious experience.

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And this night, he comes close to getting seriously injured.

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Even La Scala, where an opening-night stall seat goes for £500, rarely comes close to breaking even.

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He can come close , perhaps, but the closer he comes, the greater the risk of slippage.

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Her horse came close and watched her.

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Later Mr O'Malley came close to confirming that his party would quit the coalition later this week.

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Miguel wanted to trust Firebug; he came close to letting everything spill out.

come down on sb like a ton of bricks

come down the pike

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Job opportunities like this don't come down the pike that often.

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Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike ?

come first

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Alma's family will always come first with her.

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For me, over the years, work came first , family came second.

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The rains came first , then the storms.

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And, like most important values, it came first from my family and was reinforced by good teachers.

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Angie Costello came first to mind, a bright lipsticked smile above a striped blue apron.

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But Rosie had come first , and real people mattered more than fantasies.

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Culture in Berlin came first through state institutions, and developed very late and all at once.

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I came first to the Flat Garden, with its bonsai azaleas, temple statuary, and a stunning view of Portland.

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The theory always came first , put forward from the desire to have an elegant and consistent mathematical model.

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This is where all bad accidents come first and have their clothes removed and first transfusions.

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Which came first , the decline in public interest or the decline in political news?

come hell or high water

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Come hell or high water, he'd never missed a race and he wasn't going to miss this one.

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I'll be there in time. Don't worry. Come hell or high water.

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I said I'd do it, so I will, come hell or high water.

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My father felt I should stay in my marriage come hell or high water.

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She'd come this far to say her piece and say it she would, come hell or high water.

come in from the cold

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But 20 years have at least seen her interests come in from the cold .

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But we have come in from the cold to bring back a sneak preview.

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Never come in from the cold and toast by a hot fire.

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Timothy Cranmer did not come in from the cold , exactly.

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Voice over Another faithful sign that winter is truly upon us, is when wildlife comes in from the cold .

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Who exactly was coming in from the cold ?

come into being/be brought into being

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New democracies have come into being since the end of the Cold War.

come into focus/bring sth into focus

come into force/bring sth into force

come into sight

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We stood at the window until their car came into sight .

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After a moment they came into sight .

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But they instantly look the other way when he and his motorcade come into sight .

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But when the lane curved, a tavern came into sight and she went in.

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He'd have plenty of time to drive down when the target vehicle came into sight .

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He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road.

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The camp came into sight at the bottom of the road.

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The carob came into sight below.

come into the world

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He gave her a child every year, but was never there when it came into the world .

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He looked as if he came into the world fighting.

come into use

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Tanning beds came into use around 1979.

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Doors were fitted and it came into use on 7 September.

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Doubtless, this instability will continue as more sophisticated techniques of diagnosis come into use by the medical profession.

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It came into use around the turn of the century.

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The new register comes into use the following February.

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The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use .

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There were many different drugs coming into use .

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Various kinds of minuscule came into use , such as the humanistic and the Carolingian.

come of age

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Emma will inherit a fortune when she comes of age .

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In the 1940s, movies really came of age as a creative art form.

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Mozart's music came of age when the baroque style was at its height.

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They planned to marry as soon as she came of age .

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Britain's adopted children had come of age .

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Could 1992 be the year when the environmental revolution really comes of age ?

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Duroc had had to come of age and replace the older Duroc in the service of Nguyen Seth.

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His leap from collector to seller may be the surest sign yet that road-map collecting has come of age .

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However, you will come of age in two months.

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It must be child development with this goal: that every child be ready for school when that child comes of age .

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Morris came of age in the 1850s.

come off worst

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Alec Davidson, for example, was one of those who came off worst .

come on stream

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The new plant will come on stream at the end of the year.

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A seventy million pounds engine plant came on stream three years ago producing engines for Rover.

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If successful, the trust will come on stream in April, 1993.

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No new cases would come on stream for us to deal with.

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Norton believes privatisation of electricity and water companies means more funds will come on stream .

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The Lomond platform is due to come on stream in April.

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The plant is scheduled to come on stream in the spring of 1992.

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They will be concentrated in the same industries and come on stream as the economy is beginning its recovery from the depression.

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With more and more reactors coming on stream every year, it was inevitable that problems would begin to occur.

come out of sth/come up smelling of roses

come out of the closet

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The trial brought the issue of sexual harassment out of the closet .

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Once people decide to come out of the closet , it is pretty easy to do here.

come out on top

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In a survey of customer preference, one model came consistently out on top .

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In all action movies, the hero always comes out on top .

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Usually the team with the most talent comes out on top .

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Anthony Courtney's warnings welled up again, coupled with a new determination to come out on top .

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Both individuals should feel they come out on top .

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But Tsongas turned those views around when he came out on top , beating rival Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.

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But WindowWorks comes out on top .

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The hero or heroine must ultimately come out on top .

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While Gladiator came out on top , the contest was far from a shoo-in.

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Yet, if they are in one, most men want to come out on top .

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You could sum up the event by saying a batch of first-time nominees came out on top this year.

come running

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When Bob Dylan calls, musicians come running .

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At once there came running to her from all directions a pack of great wolves.

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Fellers come running , bobbies come running and it was a right old dust-up.

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In under two minutes she came running in with her clothes.

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Setting priorities Land economists questioned whether developers would come running if the city built a canal.

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She came running up to the van and climbed in beside him.

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She had contrarily thought that if he really cared he would have come running after her.

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The villagers came running , naturally, but there were no wolves.

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Then he loped away as a hound came running silently through the trees, nose to the ground, scenting slowly.

come sb's way

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We're determined to take every opportunity that comes our way .

come to a head

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The situation came to a head when the workers went out on strike.

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Despite these embassy warnings matters seemed in danger of coming to a head early in 1951.

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Frictions between the Truman administration and MacArthur on the conduct of the war came to a head in April 1951.

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It all came to a head a couple weekends back.

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It was a struggle which came to a head in the reign of Edward the Confessor, which began in 1042.

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Matters finally came to a head about six weeks ago when my wife and I went out to dinner with another couple.

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That part of the debate should come to a head in December, when commissioners are scheduled to formally approve the projects.

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They came to a head in 1562 at the Council of Trent, reconvened after a ten-year break.

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Yet, even as this crisis came to a head , the bishops remained unrepentant.

come to a pretty pass

come to a pretty/sorry pass

come to a stop

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The elevator finally came to a stop at the 56th floor.

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An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.

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As it came to a stop , it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.

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He had given no sign of injury until we came to a stop .

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His looking finally came to a stop at the Big Nurse.

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Lacuna came to a stop behind her, and pulled her gently into an embrace that for once was nothing but tender.

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The elevator rose smoothly, then came to a stop .

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We came to a stop outside my bedroom door and he made a lurching movement.

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With a triumphant belch, the train came to a stop and soon from a first-class carriage the beloved figure emerged.

come to blows (with sb)

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He and John, the Red Comyn, had come to blows before.

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The effect was unnerving, and at first I thought the old men would come to blows .

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The two actors reputedly almost came to blows and ended the film not talking to each other.

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The two of them shouted at each other and until Daley stomped out, the secretaries feared they would come to blows .

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They came to blows in Jersey last weekend and Speedie was fined £50 in court.

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Two men had come to blows , an arm had been broken.

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We curse and leave the room or even come to blows .

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When Antony and Cleopatra come to blows , the scene explodes.

come to grief

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But out of sight at the other end of the course, Mr Hill had also come to grief .

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Far from remaining a hero, he came to grief .

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She'd come to grief acting like that, but not from him.

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The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief , and it is not altogether surprising that it does.

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Then might not the rotting stump of the tree split under their weight and they come to grief ?

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This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence.

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When it comes to that interesting pastime, most members of most species come to grief .

come to hand

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And any missile that came to hand .

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Departmental staff are encouraged to share information as recorded, and other information as it comes to hand .

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Harrison, ever practical and resourceful, took what materials came to hand , and handled them well.

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No suitable material came to hand for the box hedges.

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The first item that came to hand was the flower.

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Then they replaced the nonfiction temporarily, as the volumes came to hand , and started on the second half.

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Until today, that was, when suddenly two very different pieces of information had come to hand .

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You're trying for something that's funky, something that sounds good, and you just grab whatever comes to hand .

come to heel

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During their bizarre courtship she was his willing puppy who came to heel when he whistled.

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Sometimes they succeed in pressuring others to come to heel .

come to life/roar into life/splutter into life etc

come to light/be brought to light

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It eventually came to light that the CIA had information about a security problem.

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But as Judge Priore's investigation continues, more mysteries come to light .

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Few such blemishes, given the secrecy of organizational practice, came to light .

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However, very interesting dynamics regarding the competition and market structure are coming to light .

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It is a complete mystery to everyone how the following gems came to light in 1989.

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The debate might have been clarified by study of the relevant Sanskrit texts: but these came to light only slowly.

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The problem came to light when an ambulance was delayed attending an emergency at Harwood-in-Teesdale, just before Christmas.

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The relationship came to light when a mysterious note was handed to a barrister at an earlier hearing.

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This came to light in the present century during widening and repair operations.

come to no harm/not come to any harm

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Fortunately, none of the hostages came to any serious harm .

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I'm sure Craig's old enough to catch a train into town without coming to any harm .

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If you keep quiet, you'll come to no harm .

come to nothing

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But it had come to nothing , and in the process he had recognised the truth behind his motives.

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Crack addicts, criminals, people whose lives have come to nothing .

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Even Sam Smith's valiant attempts to reduce the deficit came to nothing .

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If this was the intention it came to nothing , for the title was abolished in 1554.

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Plots to dispose of him came to nothing .

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Sadly it has come to nothing .

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Speculation that the deputy chairman, Lord Barnett, might also be removed came to nothing .

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Without action your job hunting will come to nothing .

come to pass

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And so it came to pass .

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But it's not really surprising that this accommodation should come to pass .

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It really did come to pass .

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It will come to pass , shortly I presume, that others will come forward to claim they wrote the book.

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None of this may come to pass , but all efforts to prevent it so far have backfired.

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Such regulations may someday come to pass , but perhaps not soon enough for the butternut.

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The odds on this coming to pass are daunting.

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Whatever the priestess at Delphi said would happen infallibly came to pass .

come to rest

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Lynn's eyes came to rest on a framed picture on the bookshelf.

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The plane skidded along the runway and came to rest in a cornfield.

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A curlew called out as it rose above the waters, then came to rest alongside its mate among the rushes.

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Ahab abandons his watch and walks about the deck finally coming to rest against the rail.

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Finally the raft came to rest , sitting just below the tideline.

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From time to time she would glance back into the room, her eyes coming to rest on the casually seated figure of Tsu Ma.

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His second shot came to rest in a greenside bunker.

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Meanwhile, we spun out and came to rest with the car still running.

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She woke slowly from a vague dream as an errant breeze drifted over her face, coming to rest on her mouth.

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Those which happen to come to rest in a non-absorbing direction will absorb no more photons, and will thereafter stay put.

come to sb's attention

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Cuttings that should come to everybody's attention quickly can be pinned to the library noticeboard or contained in a monthly newsletter.

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I pay tribute to the fairness of the Home Office in dealing with the cases that have come to my attention .

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It's just come to my attention that he might have corresponded with Christabel LaMotte.

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Small strokes of frontal lobe seldom come to the attention of neurologists.

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Then it came to the attention of Edward Hooper, an unusually tenacious man.

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Unlike venereal disease, leprosy came to Western attention relatively late.

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We maintain a computerised database of potential acquirers against which we screen all opportunities that come to our attention .

come to terms with sth

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It took years for Rob to come to terms with his mother's death.

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An individual's sexuality is their own affair and they will come to terms with it when they are ready to.

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Four died in hospital and Emma Hartley, one of the survivors, was trying to come to terms with that.

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He sat at the window, staring out into the night trying to come to terms with the anger that overwhelmed him.

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I had to come to terms with that.

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It helps the young reader to come to terms with his or her own non-rational, unconscious-dominated behaviour.

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Only by finding each other again can they hope to come to terms with their tragedy.

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Refusing to come to terms with reality harms us and, incidentally, deceives no one else for long.

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They've been trying to come to terms with what's happened ever since.

come to the/sb's rescue

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Alberto has come to the rescue with One Step, a great new two-in-one shampoo and conditioner.

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And I could see no more, until the cavalry came to the rescue .

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But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue .

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But once again ingenuity came to the rescue .

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In theory, the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue .

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Once again, Ashputtel sang her song for the birds; once again they came to her rescue .

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The designer from Mark Wilkinson, Debbie Weston, came to the rescue and suggested custom-painted ones.

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The thirty-day rule comes to the rescue for thirty days.

come to/meet a sticky end

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I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends.

come true

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After 21 years, Carl's dream of owning a home came true .

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Patterson's dream came true when he won the Boston marathon on his first attempt.

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People say that if you make a wish at the top of the hill, it always comes true .

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And in no time at all, they see their dreams come true .

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But it is not a dream that is likely to come true , though perhaps not for the obvious reason.

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Ideas become a bit confused by the fact they feel a dream has come true .

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She was glad to see such a love story come true before her eyes.

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She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true .

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This is the land where dreams come true if you really, honestly want them to.

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This was a dream that came true .

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We thought maybe our worst nightmare came true .

come tumbling down

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Soon her marriage came tumbling down.

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And the marriage comes tumbling down as Roth, like a Roth hero, demands to become unbound from marital ties.

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Another set of walls comes tumbling down.

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As the Holy Spirit filled me, the barriers came tumbling down.

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He watched a huge white mountain collapse and come tumbling down on him.

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One wrong move, we realized with horror, and the doors could come tumbling down.

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The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union.

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Then the stage came tumbling down.

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There is a loud clatter as a stack of circuit boards comes tumbling down.

come unglued

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If someone talked to me like that, I would just come unglued .

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When his parents got divorced, his whole world came unglued .

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Robbins, whose analogies tend strongly toward food, explained what happens when something comes unglued .

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What on earth was it about him that he could make her come unglued with just a single look?

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You can turn the Mustang into any bend at any speed and it won't ever come unglued .

come unstuck

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Another day we nearly came unstuck altogether.

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Because many skiers rely on skidding, they come unstuck in deep snow.

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Billy says that he first came unstuck in time in 1944, long before his trip to Tralfamadore.

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But even that achievement is now in danger of coming unstuck , as Larry Elliott points out on page 12.

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He told about having come unstuck in time.

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The layers of secrecy have come unstuck with time.

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This week, however, they came unstuck .

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Where I really came unstuck arguing with von Kranksch was on the subject of crystals.

come up short

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We've been to the state tournament four times, but we've come up short every time.

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He struck the ball tentatively, and it came up short .

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I went home, wanting to do something very special, but came up short .

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If we keep coming up short , tax the Patagonians.

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Judged by their own standards, they came up short .

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Kansas played well for 38 minutes but came up short in the end.

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Riley keeps coming up short , but insists on coming right back to pound the same hammer with the same nail.

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This analysis often reveals why some groups regularly succeed and others regularly come up short .

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We're so close to getting the job done, but we keep coming up short .

come up with the goods/deliver the goods

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Neil Young's annual fall concert always delivers the goods with famous musicians and good music.

come within a whisker of (doing) sth

come/be on stream

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A seventy million pounds engine plant came on stream three years ago producing engines for Rover.

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Norton believes privatisation of electricity and water companies means more funds will come on stream.

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The Lomond platform is due to come on stream in April.

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The plant is scheduled to come on stream in the spring of 1992.

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They will be concentrated in the same industries and come on stream as the economy is beginning its recovery from the depression.

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Those two plants came on stream at a time when we needed all the capacity they could provide.

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Two years later, the new developments are on stream, bringing the target of 400 job opportunities even closer.

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With more and more reactors coming on stream every year, it was inevitable that problems would begin to occur.

come/follow hot on the heels of sth

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It comes hot on the heels of the C5 saloon we showed you last week.

come/get to grips with sth

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At that time, she was still coming to grips with her unexpected plunge into social activism.

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BInstitutions are just now coming to grips with the consequences.

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In my view this is an evasion of the teacher's duty to enable pupils to get to grips with academic language.

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Neither Jantzen nor McFague really gets to grips with the philosophical issues involved.

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Now he's getting to grips with his injuries.

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The whole program works very well, I still seem to have problems in getting to grips with some areas.

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Tutorials on disk are the latest way to get to grips with problem areas.

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We are still trying to come to grips with the problems identified by the Romantics.

come/go along for the ride

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I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd go along for the ride .

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But do members just go along for the ride ?

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His pride would never let Olajuwon simply go along for the ride .

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I was wondering if you fancied coming along for the ride .

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I went along for the ride .

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Lord knows where they're heading, but you really should go along for the ride .

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Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride .

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Other major players in the Las Vegas casino market came along for the ride .

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The dancers were flown to Washington, with Talley Beatty going along for the ride .

come/go full circle

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After the experiments of the 1960s, education has come full circle in its methods of teaching reading.

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A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle .

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Cross the Bahnhof bridge, and you will have come full circle back to the starting point.

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In a way, we've almost come full circle back to what I was trained to do, which is teaching.

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Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle .

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So we have come full circle .

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The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle .

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Thus the research has come full circle .

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Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle .

come/go under the hammer

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A collection of prints and paintings by Picasso came under the hammer at Sotheby's yesterday.

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Three Renoir paintings will come under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.

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As for football, it also came under the hammer for the usual reasons.

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Hundreds of items go under the hammer to save a medieval manor.

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In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction.

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It was part of the contents of a unique toy museum in Buckinghamshire most of which came under the hammer today.

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Read in studio A collection of battered old toys has come under the hammer at an auction today.

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So that and nearly 500 other lots will go under the hammer at Sotherbys tomorrow.

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The rest of his collection is going under the hammer .

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They will go under the hammer at the London auctioneers Spink on 17 May.

come/go with the territory

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I expected the criticism it comes with the territory when you're a public figure.

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As economies mature, they say, economic slowdown comes with the territory .

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Dealing with the guest who is in a delicate business situation or just a very bad mood all goes with the territory .

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Death always went with the territory .

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Human rights abuses go with the territory .

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Most of us have been doing this for a long time, and it goes with the territory .

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She just said she felt it went with the territory .

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Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory .

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The strain, the negativity, the isolation all came with the territory .

come/go/get along

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Depending on the circumstances, I was willing to go along .

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I went along the colonnade to the corner of the southern front of the house.

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In the best programs, 3-and 4-year-olds learn social skills, how to share and get along .

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Rashly volunteering to be a contestant, I went along the previous Saturday to practice.

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She said she does not get along well with her children and can not get them to clean.

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She wants to go along too.

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The countries in the region do not want Kosovo independence, and Washington appears to go along with that view.

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Why don't you ask Brenda and Belinda to come along to Friday meetings?

come/go/turn full circle

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A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.

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Now his fortunes are poised to turn full circle again.

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Now the pattern has turned full circle.

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Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle.

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The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle.

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The wheel has turned full circle in the past 25 years.

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Thus the research has come full circle.

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Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.

come/roll/jerk/skid etc to a stop

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A limousine carrying Harris and several other black passengers jerked to a stop .

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An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.

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And moments later he comes to a stop .

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As it came to a stop , it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.

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He had given no sign of injury until we came to a stop .

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It swerved wildly towards the wall, bounced over the pavement and came to a stop four feet from the concrete wall.

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Once it has been consumed, the Darwinian machine comes to a stop .

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When it jerked to a stop they were led out into a narrow carpeted passage.

come/spring to mind

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All of this comes to mind because of the movies.

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As I thought about this, two questions kept coming to mind .

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Dell and Elonex immediately spring to mind .

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Faded was the word that sprang to mind - everything had a rather tired quality about it.

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He waited for something to come to mind .

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Multiple calamities had come to mind .

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Three possible explanations come to mind .

come/turn up trumps

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And a dream come true ... The advert for grandparents that came up trumps .

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Conrad Allen came up trumps again, finishing fourth in the boys 800 metres in a personal best 2 mins. 22.

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Ibanez seem to have taken another daring step in their continuing success story and come up trumps once again.

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In part two: Four of a kind ... Durnin plays the winning hand as United come up trumps against Luton.

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You've come up trumps , Derek.

crawl/come out of the woodwork

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Creativity was coming out of the woodwork .

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There are wallabies crawling out of the woodwork .

cross that bridge when you come to it

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"What if they refuse?" "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."

easy come, easy go

feel peculiar/come over all peculiar

first come, first served

go up/come down in the world

go/come along

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A Democratic Capitol Hill aide said it's too early to tell whether Congress will go along with the proposal.

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Gingrich listened carefully to the Tuesday Lunch Bunch, and sometimes came along to their meetings.

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If you would like to reassess your life and learn how to use stress to your advantage, come along .

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Other religious schools unwilling to go along with them should no longer expect state funding.

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Sam Fermoyle came along West Street.

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So I agreed to go along .

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The discussion groups were relatively open, and many people came along as friends of friends.

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Until Green Bay came along , either one of these two teams was going to win the Super Bowl.

go/come/be down to the wire

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We were in a couple of games that went right down to the wire .

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In the event the starting line-up went down to the wire .

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It is down to the wire .

here comes sb/sth

how come?

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How come he's asked us to spend all this money and not them?

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How come I can't make her happy, how come she can't make me happy?

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How come Mrs Wall-Eye know my name?

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How come the vast majority of the population appears to want to play make-believe?

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How come you never asked me what happened?

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Joey, how come you never sweet-talk me in person?

if the worst comes to the worst

if you think ..., you've got another think coming!

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If they think it's going to be an easy game, they've got another think coming!

it will all come out in the wash

kingdom come

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As you are risen, it is new kingdom come. 17.

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He heard Barnabas hit the study floor running, scattering a braided rug to kingdom come.

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He nearly blew us all to kingdom come once ....

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His movements came within inches of blowing them all to kingdom come.

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The people in the kingdom came to love Aladdin, and the sultan made him a captain in the army.

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The truck was blown to kingdom come.

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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

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Ya do one fucken thing wrong in yur whole goddamn life an ya got ta pay fer it till kingdom come!

not come near sb/sth

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Bankside activity has reached such a pitch, even at night, that the carp will not come near the margins.

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Her fiance, the man who was supposed to love her, had not come near her since her father's death.

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My wife would not come near me.

rise/come back/return from the dead

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A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune.

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Friends don't come back from the dead , Leila thought, rampaging through the corridor from the canteen.

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The single engine airplane business came back from the dead after the General Aviation Revitalization Act made it harder to sue.

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When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer.

sb had (got) it coming

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He had it coming, and I did him in.

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Put like that and you might think they had it coming.

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That pair obviously just had it coming.

sb's chickens come home to roost

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Their extravagant overspending has come home to roost .

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Eventually, of course, the chickens came home to roost .

sb's chickens have come home to roost

sb's number comes up

see sb coming (a mile off)

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Beyond him, I could see the camp coming alive.

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Birds, like planes, usually face into the wind, so they do not see the plane coming.

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He looked up to see Norm coming down the driveway.

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One of the man-things had seen them coming and shouted a warning.

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Sarah Fleming saw them coming through the window of the front room.

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She saw him coming and intended to give him a wide berth.

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That Salvor Hardin had seen it coming made it none the more pleasant.

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We were heading for the landing zone and could even see a chopper coming toward us.

see sth coming

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Everyone had seen the layoffs coming, but nobody could do anything to stop them.

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Jason saw the stock market crash coming and sold most of his shares.

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Then one day she just walked out -- I suppose I should have seen it coming really.

sth would not come/go amiss

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A last round of the rooms wouldn't come amiss .

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A little humility in the medical debate would not go amiss .

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A little thank you to the Ombudsman would not go amiss . --------------------.

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A tankful of petrol wouldn't come amiss .

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Adding a few seconds to your dev.time to allow for the stop, etc. wouldn't go amiss .

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An apology wouldn't go amiss .

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In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss .

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This remained a most important consideration, but some relaxation of the original prohibition would not go amiss .

take each day as it comes

take effect/come into effect

that's rich (coming from him/you etc)

the coming of sth/sb

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All around the globe at this time of year people celebrate the coming of new life into the world.

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Formerly it heralded special occasions and, it is said, will be blown to announce the coming of the Messiah.

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From my earliest childhood, I had heard people talk of the coming of better times, of the redemption of mankind.

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In short, nowhere illustrates better than Mississippi the coming of age of the Republican Party in the South.

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Mrs Moore sat with Lily's pale hand in hers and talked with desperate gaiety about the coming of spring.

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With the coming of full consciousness among these and related currents, Trotskyism will become a powerful current.

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With the coming of the Reagan administration, however, Hermann was told to clean out his desk.

till the cows come home

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They stay up and play cards till the cows come home.

what goes around comes around

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But, as the saying goes , what goes around comes around.

when/if it comes to the point

when/if push comes to shove

which came first, the chicken or the egg?