come1 verbcome2 noun
comecome1 /kʌm/ ●●● S1 W1 verb (past tense came /keɪm/, past participle come) [intransitive] 
WORD ORIGINcome1
Origin:
Old English cumanVERB TABLE
come
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | come |
| he, she, it | comes | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | came |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have come |
| he, she, it | has come | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had come |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will come |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have come |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am coming |
| he, she, it | is coming | |
| you, we, they | are coming | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was coming |
| you, we, they | were coming | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been coming |
| he, she, it | has been coming | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been coming |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be coming |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been coming |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Come a little closer.
- Can Billy come too?
- Can you come to my party?
- Christianity came to Russia in 989.
- Has the mail come yet?
- My mother's saying she won't come if Richard's here.
- Sarah's coming later on.
- Some of the birds have come thousands of miles to winter here.
- The camera comes complete with batteries.
- The morning sun came through the doorway.
- The phone bill came at a bad time.
- We're having a meal at my home tomorrow night. Do you want to come?
- We come here every summer.
- What time is Dad coming home?
- When the visitors come, send them up to my office.
- Winter came early that year.
- You should have come to the concert -- it was really good.
- After supper on my first night back, Clarisa took Janir to bed and never came out of her room.
- But when she came up to me after that third seminar I was so shocked and embarrassed that I could barely speak.
- He rolled a couple of yards downhill and came to rest in a dwarf willow bush.
- I came to dance thinking it was the art of motion, the art of action.
- Just as our house came into view, one of our horses trotted up to visit.
- The excitement comes in the planning of a job from its very birth.
- You want to come with me?
THESAURUS
to get to the place you are going to: · I arrived at the party at around 7 o’clock.· They were due to arrive home from Spain yesterday.
to arrive somewhere. Get is much more common in everyday English than arrive: · What time do you usually get to work?· I’ll call you when I get home.
to arrive somewhere, especially after a long journey: · When we finally reached the port, we were all very tired.
if someone comes, they arrive at the place where you are: · She came home yesterday.· What time did the plumber say he’d come?
(also show up) informal to arrive somewhere, especially when someone is waiting for you: · I’d arranged to meet Tom, but he never turned up.
informal to arrive somewhere later than you should and not seem worried about it: · Rebecca usually rolls in around noon.
to arrive somewhere – used especially about people arriving home, or a plane, train etc arriving at an airport, station etc: · I usually get in at around 6 o’clock.· What time did your plane get in?
if a plane, train, or ship comes in, it arrives in the place where you are: · We liked to watch the cruise ships come in.
if a plane or the passengers on it land, they arrive on the ground: · We finally landed at 2 a.m.· They watched the planes taking off and landing.
Longman Language Activatorto admit that you have done something wrong or illegal to say that you have done something wrong or illegal, especially when someone asks or persuades you to do this: admit (that): · Rachel admitted that she had made a mistake.· Blake finally admitted he had stolen the money.admit (to) doing something: · Richard Maldonado admitted accepting bribes.· He admits to stealing the car.admit it spoken: · Admit it! You lied to me!admit responsibility/liability/negligence (=admit publicly that something is legally your fault): · The hospital refused to admit liability for the deaths of the two young children.
to tell the police or someone in a position of authority that you have done something very bad, especially after they have persuaded you to do this: · After two days of questioning, he finally confessed.confess (that): · She confessed that she had killed her husband.confess to a crime/robbery/murder etc: · McCarthy confessed to the crime shortly after his arrest.confess to doing something: · Edwards eventually confessed to being a spy.
to admit that you have done something wrong, especially something that is not serious. Own up is more informal than admit or confess: · Unless the guilty person owns up, the whole class will be punished.own up to (doing) something: · No one owned up to breaking the window.· I made a few mistakes, but I owned up to them.
informal to finally tell the truth or admit that you have done something wrong: · The bank eventually came clean and admitted they had made a mistake.come clean about: · It's time the government came clean about its plans to raise income tax.
especially American, informal to admit that you have done something wrong, but not something that is very serious: · Come on, fess up - you must have been the one who told her because no-one else knew!· If none of you guys fesses up, you're all grounded for a week.
to happen after something else especially written if an event or period follows another event or period, it happens after it: · We saw each other a lot in the months that followed.· the long period of stability that followed the warbe followed by something: · The wedding was followed by a big party at the Chelsea Hotel.· Suddenly there was a shout from above, immediately followed by a loud bang.be closely followed by something (=be followed very soon by): · China's first nuclear test in October 1964 was closely followed by a second in May 1965.there followed/follows (=after that there was): · There then followed a long and painful silence.
to happen after something else and often as a result of something else: come after something: · The agreement came after six months of negotiations.· The Napoleonic Wars came after the French Revolution.come three weeks/five days etc after something: · My first chance to talk to her came three days after our quarrel.come after: · The New Stone Age lasted about 1200 years in Britain. The period which came after is known as the Bronze Age.
formal if something such as an argument or a fight ensues , it happens after something else, often as a result of it: · I objected to what he had just said and a heated argument then ensued.· The police were called in to quell the riot that ensued.
especially American if something comes on the heels of something else, it happens very soon after it -- used especially in news reports: come on the heels of something: · The news comes on the heels of the FBI's announcement that last week's crash was caused by mechanical failure.hot/hard on the heels of something British (=immediately after something): · Tuesday's victory came hard on the heels of last week's shock defeat by Manchester United.
if something, especially something bad, happens in the wake of an event, it happens after it and usually as a result of it: · In the wake of Thailand's economic troubles, Malaysia's currency also sank.
when something almost happens but does not · I was laughing so hard I almost fell out of my chair.· The terrorists almost succeeded in blowing up the President's limousine.very nearly · She was very lucky. She very nearly lost her life.
to almost do something or almost be in a particular state: come close/near to doing something: · She was so angry that she came very close to walking out of the meeting.· Dad came near to changing his mind about lending me the car.be close/near to something: · The negotiations were very near to breaking down.
to very nearly do something, especially something dangerous or unpleasant: come within inches of death: · Coulson came within inches of death on a climbing trip in the Himalayas last year.come within an inch of doing something: · Manchester United came within an inch of losing the game.
: narrowly avoid/miss/escape etc to avoid something unpleasant or dangerous, although you almost do not avoid it: · Flying into the airport at Lima, we narrowly avoided a collision with another plane.· The article says Meyers narrowly escaped arrest in Rome last month.
a situation in which someone is almost killed or injured: · Mike's had two motorcycle accidents, plus a few other pretty close shaves.
British if something that you succeed in doing is a near thing or a close thing you succeed in doing it, but only at the last moment: · The Labour party won the election, but it was a very near thing.· Security forces managed to free the hostages, but it was a very close thing.
spoken say this when something bad very nearly happens but does not, especially when this is the result of good luck: · The guard began to search the pile of leaves where we were hiding, but then got distracted by a noise from the house. "Phew, that was close!" said John. "C'mon, let's get out of here!"
when a bad situation or problem makes people argue if an unpleasant situation or problem causes or leads to an argument , it makes people argue: · Don't tell him about the money. It'll only cause an argument.· The cleaning rota always leads to arguments in our house.
if a bad situation or a problem comes between two people, it makes them argue, usually with the result that they stop being friends: · We were such close friends that I didn't think anything could come between us.· I was determined not to let my career come between us.
if a bad situation, a problem etc causes a rift between two people, it makes them have a small argument with the result that they are not as friendly as they were before: · The street fighting has caused a slight rift between the communities involved.· No one is quite sure about what caused the rift between the two actors.
to arrive somewhere if someone or something arrives , they get to the place they were going to: · What time do you think we'll arrive?· Did my package arrive?· Give me a call to let me know you've arrived safely.arrive at: · It was already dark by the time they arrived at their hotel.arrive in: · The British Prime Minister arrived in Tokyo today.arrive from: · When Uncle Guy arrived from Dublin he brought them an enormous box of chocolates. arrive here/there/back/home: · When I first arrived here none of the other students would talk to me.
informal to arrive at a place: · It'll take us about half an hour to get to the airport.· Turn left, and walk down the street until you get to some traffic lights.get back to (=return to): · I'll call her when I get back to Chicago.get there/here/home: · What time do you usually get home in the evening?· I want to get there before the store closes.
if someone or something comes , they arrive at the place where you are waiting for them: · When the visitors come, send them up to my office.· Has the mail come yet?· My mother's saying she won't come if Richard's here.come home/back: · What time is Dad coming home?
to arrive at a place, especially after a long or difficult journey: · It took more than three days to reach the top of the mountain.· Snow prevented workers from reaching the broken pipeline.
spoken use this to say that someone has arrived at the place where you are waiting for them: · Susan, your friends are here.· Is Andy here yet?· Here they are. Go and open the door, will you?
informal to arrive -- use this about someone you are expecting to arrive, especially when they arrive late: · Steve turned up half an hour late as usual.· Some of the people I invited never showed up.· If Tina shows up, tell her we waited as long as we could.
informal to arrive somewhere in time for something, when you were not sure you would: · If we don't make it on time, start without us.make it to: · We just made it to the hospital before the baby arrived.
informal if someone rolls in , they arrive somewhere later than they should and do not seem worried about it -- often used humorously: · Chris finally rolled in at about 4:00 am.· Rebecca usually rolls in around noon.
to arrive home, especially when you are later than expected or usual: · What time did you get in last night?· Mark just got in a few minutes ago.
to arrive unexpectedly · We were just having breakfast when Amy appeared.appear at/in/from · Neil appeared at my house around 9 o'clock.· All these people seem to have appeared from nowhere.
to arrive without warning, especially when it is difficult or not convenient for other people: · Brian has a habit of turning up just at the wrong moment.· At midnight Joanne's boyfriend showed up drunk.
if someone or something comes along, it arrives, especially in a way that is unexpected or slightly unusual: · We were having a good time until Ronnie came along.· Bill and I waited an hour for a bus, and then four of them came along at once.
British /speak of the devil American say this when someone you are talking about or have just mentioned comes into the room or arrives unexpectedly: · Talk of the devil! I was just telling everyone about your promotion.· Let's ask Amy what she thinks - speak of the devil, here she is!
a plane, ship, train, bus etc arrives · What time does his flight arrive?· The train isn't due to arrive until 4.30.arrive at/in/from · Our flight arrived in Osaka two hours ahead of schedule.· Supply ships have started arriving at ports along the East coast.
to arrive -- use this when you are talking about the time when a train, ship, or plane arrives: · What time does your flight get in?· Hopefully the bus will get in by 8 o'clock.get in to: · The ferry gets in to Harwich around noon.
if a plane lands , it arrives at an airport: · Despite severe weather conditions, the Boeing 727 landed as scheduled.land at: · When the plane landed at JFK, it was three hours late.land in: · Before landing in Algiers, we circled the airport several times.come in to land (=go down towards the ground at an airport): · There's a plane coming in to land now.
if a plane, ship, or train comes in , it arrives in the place where you are waiting: · Has the Air India flight come in yet?· Crowds had gathered at the harbour to watch the ship come in.
if a ship docks , it arrives at a port: dock at/in: · When the ship docked at Southampton its cargo was immediately inspected.· We finally docked in Portland, Maine, happy to be on dry land again.
if a train, car, or bus pulls in , it arrives at the station or the place where you are waiting: · Finally the bus pulled in, forty minutes late.· Just as the train was pulling in, there was a shout and someone fell onto the track.
if you say that a plane, train or ship is in , it has arrived at the airport, station etc where you are waiting: · Their plane's in, but it'll take them a little while to get through customs.· As her train wasn't in yet, she went to the bookstall and flipped through the magazines.
: incoming plane/flight/train etc a place, train etc that is arriving somewhere rather than leaving: · All incoming flights are being delayed by fog.· The crash occurred when a freight train collided with an incoming passenger train.
to arrive somewhere without intending to /fetch up British to arrive in a place that you did not intend to go to: end up in/at: · I fell asleep on the bus and ended up in Denver.· I thought we were going straight home, but we all ended up at Tom's place.
to arrive at a place during a journey without knowing that you would arrive there: · We were walking through the woods when we came to a waterfall.· Ian stopped at the next house he came to and asked to use the phone.
to realize that you have arrived somewhere without intending to: · After wandering around, we found ourselves back at the hotel.· Sammler opened a big glass door and found himself in an empty lobby.
when a baby is born · Karen's baby was born six weeks early.· All our children were born in the same hospital.
the fact or process of being born: · It was a very difficult birth.· There have been three births in our family this year.birth of: · It's quite common now for fathers to be present at the birth of their babies.at birth (=at the time when someone is born): · Most birds cannot identify their parents at birth and simply follow the first moving object they see.
to be born - use this especially to talk about the time a baby is born: · The baby arrived at five minutes past midnight.· Has your sister's baby arrived yet?
a word meaning to be born - use this especially to talk about how the baby's birth affects its parents' lives: · I was studying to be an accountant, but then the baby came along and I had to give it all up.· By the time her third child came along, Mrs Jones had strong ideas on how children should be brought up.
to happen or exist before someone or something else · The paragraph says basically the same thing as the one that came before.come before something · The salad usually comes before the main course.· In the Greek alphabet, the letter delta comes before the letter epsilon.
formal to come just before something else in a pattern or series: · In English, the subject precedes the verb.· On vehicle licence plates in the UK, the numbers are preceded by a single letter.
if one historical event or object predates another, it happened or existed before it: · Many economic systems predate capitalism.predate something by 10/50/200 etc years: · The steam engine predates the internal combustion engine by at least 100 years.
if an event leads up to another event, it comes before it and often causes it to happen: · Monroe still refuses to talk about the events which led up to his resignation.· The book describes some of the events leading up to the First World War.
if one of two events comes first , it happens before the other event: · The rains came first, then the storms.
formal or written if an event is a prelude to a more important event, it happens just before it and often makes people expect it: · The air-strike was just a prelude to the invasion.· The revolution of 1789 was a prelude to a more just and equal society.
what you say to someone when you do not believe them spoken informal say this when you are very surprised by what someone has just said and cannot believe that it is true: · They got married! You're kidding!· "When he sat down, the chair just collapsed." "You're joking."
/come on spoken informal say this when you cannot believe what someone has said, and you think they do not really believe it themselves: · "He kind of reminds me of myself at that age." "Oh come off it. When you were that age all you wanted to do was have fun."· Oh come on Keith - do you really expect me to believe that?
spoken informal say this when you do not believe something that someone has said, and you think they are deliberately telling you something that is not true: · "I really wanted to come, but I overslept." "Yeah, right. Then why didn't you set your alarm?"
spoken say this when you think someone is telling you something that they know is not true: · "I was going to pay the money back as soon as I saw you." "Yeah. Likely story!"
British spoken say this when it is very clear that someone is not telling you the truth or that they are trying to trick you: · Oh, pull the other one, John. You can't seriously expect me to believe that!
American spoken say this when you think that something is very surprising or that someone is not telling you the truth or is trying to trick you: · "I got the car for just $350 dollars." "Get out of here!"
spoken say this when you think someone is lying to you and you want to show them that you are not stupid enough to believe it: · You can't expect me to trust you after all the other promises you've broken, you know. I wasn't born yesterday.
to break, so that one piece becomes separated from the main part if a part of something breaks off , it breaks and becomes separated from the main part of it: · I gave it a tug and the zipper broke off.· A military cargo plane made an emergency landing when one of the propellers broke off.· Icebergs break off from the ice sheets and float southwards.
if part of something comes off it becomes separated from the main part of it because it is not fastened to it firmly enough: · Can you fix the door? The handle's come off.come off something: · A wheel had come off a car, and rolled to the side of the road.
to easily become separated from a surface when touched, pulled etc: · The switch was attached to the plate and came away with it when I pulled.come away from: · Mix until the dough comes away from the side of the bowl.come away in somebody's hand (=become separated very easily or without you realising it): · Ralph pulled, and the lock came away in his hand.
to change your opinion or belief about something to change your opinion about something or someone: · At first the doctor said I was suffering from a virus, but now he's changed his mind.· Everyone has a right to change their mind.change your mind about: · I'm hoping Dad will change his mind about Louise after he meets her tonight.· I've changed my mind about the Riviera. I do like it after all.
formal to change your opinion because something has happened that has made you realize that you were wrong before: revise your opinion about/of: · Mrs Pemberton revised her opinion of her future son-in-law when he was accepted into law school.· Since visiting the refugee camps, I have revised my opinion about immigration quotas.
to change your mind about something and talk about it in a very different way from how you did before: · She used to be a Communist, but she changed her tune when her parents left her all that money.· You've changed your tune all of a sudden! Only yesterday you were saying you thought Christmas presents were a waste of money.
when you begin to feel differently about something or someone so that your attitude completely changes: · It's hard to explain this apparent change of heart.have a change of heart: · He didn't want kids at first, but he's had quite a change of heart.change of heart about: · We can only hope Congress may have a radical change of heart about welfare benefits.
also come round British to change your mind so that you gradually begin to agree with someone else's idea or opinion, especially after they have persuaded you that they are right: · He'll come around eventually. He doesn't have any choice, does he?· My mother stopped speaking to me when I first married Tom, but she's slowly coming around now.come around to somebody's view/way of thinking: · We had to talk to Sam for a long time before he came round to our way of thinking.come around to the idea/view that: · A lot of employers are coming around to the idea that older employees have a lot to offer a company.come around to doing something: · We're hoping that they'll eventually come round to accepting our offer.
formal to say publicly or formally that you have changed your mind and stopped believing what you used to believe, especially about religion or politics: · During the Moscow Show Trials in the 1930s, prisoners were forced to publicly recant.· After the Reformation, many Catholics recanted to avoid punishment.
to have developed from something use this to say that something that exists now developed from something else that existed before: · My idea for the film came from an article I read about West Virginia coal miners.· The name 'terrier' comes from the Latin word 'terra' meaning the earth.
if a film, story, idea, plan etc is based on something else, that is where its basic ideas or facts come from: · The film is based on a popular Bengali novel.· Overtime pay will be based on the number of hours you work each week.· Your test questions will be based on the work you have done in the past year.
to have developed in a particular place or from a particular situation: · How did the tradition of wearing costumes on Hallowe'en originate?originate in: · Welfare is a program that originated in the 1930s to help widows.· Buddhism originated in India and came to China in the first century A.D.
to have developed from something that happened or existed a long time ago: · Many phrases in the language go back to early religious writings.· Our friendship goes back to our freshman year in college.· Jo just refuses to get into a car -- it all goes back to when she had that accident.
if something has its origins in something that existed a long time ago, that is where it comes from and is the reason for it being as it is: · Modern medicine often has its origins in ancient ways of doing things.· Vaudeville had its origins in French street culture.
if something such as a belief or attitude has its roots in conditions that existed earlier, it developed from them and is still influenced by them: · Many music historians believe that jazz has its roots in blues music.· Economic policy in the US has its roots in the free market system.
to have developed from something else, especially by a long or complicated process: · Much of the English language is derived from Latin and Greek.· About a quarter of the drugs in prescription medicines today are derived from plants.
to have one main idea, belief etc that something else develops from: · The constitution in this country is not written. It's founded on tradition and precedent.· White resistance to Civil Rights was founded on age-old fears of democracy.
to develop from something small or simple by becoming bigger or more complicated: · Socialist ideals grew out of an earlier idea that all men are created equal.· The skill of writing grew out of a wish to put speech into a permanent form.
to come from an original idea or form and change into something bigger, more important, or more advanced: · The whole basis of her novel evolved from a chance meeting she had with an old friend.· Within years, the site developed from an area of waste ground into a thriving farm.
when a sound, smell etc comes from somewhere · The wind was coming from the west.· Coming from outside in the street was the sound of children playing.· There was an awful smell coming from under the sink.
formal to come from somewhere: · Smoke emanated from the kitchen window.· The President argued that accusations emanating from Congress were not accurate.· Just as the audience grew quiet, the unmistakable ring of a cellular phone emanated from the last row of the theater.
the place that a sound, a smell, smoke, gas etc comes from: · In the case of an electric shock, turn the power off at its source.an unknown source: · The sound came from an unknown source, far away in the distance.source of: · The tank's losing water, but we can't find the source of the leak.
to become conscious again after being unconscious formal to become conscious again after being unconscious: · The doctors don't know when he'll regain consciousness.· She died without regaining consciousness.
British /come around American to become conscious again gradually, especially after an accident or injury: · Sue was coming around, but she still felt dizzy.· The police are waiting for him to come round so they can question him about the attack.
to become gradually conscious again after being made unconscious, especially by being hit on the head: · He came to a few minutes later, unable to remember anything about the accident.
to go down to go down some stairs, a ladder, a slope etc: · You go down a steep slope, then turn left at the bottom of the hill.· Right, here's the ladder. Who's going down first?go down to: · I'll go down (=downstairs) to the kitchen and get you a glass of water.
if a plane, bomb etc comes down somewhere, it comes down to the ground there, especially by accident: · Airline officials believe that the plane came down somewhere in the Andes mountains.· One of the missiles came down in a heavily populated suburb of Beirut.
to fall straight downwards through the air: · When I let go of her hand, it dropped like a stone.drop onto/from/off etc: · The bottle rolled across the table, dropped onto the floor, and smashed.· One of your buttons has dropped off.
to come down through the air from a higher place: · Just as we were about to leave the house, rain began to fall.fall from/down/on etc: · Leaves were falling from the trees.· Bombs fell on the streets, destroying neighbouring homes, but leaving the school intact.
written to go down a slope, a mountain etc slowly and carefully: · Slowly the two climbers descended the cliff face.descend into/from etc: · We descended into the cave by a rope ladder.
if a plane or a bird dives , it moves quickly down through the air: · The engine did not re-start, and the plane dived to the ground.· The hawk stopped in mid-flight before diving down on its prey.
if a plane or a bird lands , it comes down to the ground in a controlled way: · He loves watching planes take off and land at the airport.land in/on/at: · We will be landing at Singapore airport at 3 am local time.· A flock of Canada geese landed on the river in front of us.
if a plane touches down , it arrives safely on the ground at an airport but has not yet stopped moving: · The King's private plane touched down at Heathrow airport at exactly 12.15 this afternoon.· We will be touching down in about an hour's time.
to take a drug to put a drug into your body - use this about legal or illegal drugs: · I can't take penicillin; I'm allergic to it.· She took a couple of aspirins before going to bed.take drugs (=use illegal drugs): · Sinclair admitted that she had taken drugs several years before.· He neither drinks nor takes drugs.
to take a drug regularly, especially because you cannot stop taking it: be on heroin/cocaine/speed etc: · How long has she been on heroin?be on drugs (=regularly take illegal drugs): · Our 28-year-old son is on drugs.
to regularly take illegal drugs: · She first started using drugs when she was thirteen.· Morgan stopped using drugs and alcohol six years ago when he entered a long-term treatment program.
informal to take illegal drugs, especially regularly: · I did a lot of drugs when I was at university.· Davis said he quit doing drugs when he became a parent.
to put a drug into someone's body using a needle: · Most heroin users prefer to inject the drug.· A drug that is injected reaches the brain faster than if it is smoked or sniffed.· Two years ago I was both smoking and injecting.
to stop being affected by a powerful drug that you have taken: · I think I'm starting to come down. Let's smoke another joint.
to have an effect on the way people think or behave to affect the way someone behaves or thinks: · Don't let him influence you - make up your own mind.· How much does TV advertising really influence what people buy?· The jury's verdict was clearly influenced by their sympathy for the defendant.influence somebody to do something: · The prisoner claims he was influenced by his older friends to carry out the crime.
to have a continuing effect on the way that people think or behave: · His ideas are too complicated to have much real influence.have an influence on: · Clearly, the cost of fuel has an influence on what sort of car someone buys.have a great/important/profound etc influence: · Descartes' ideas have had a profound influence on modern science.
to influence someone when they have not yet definitely decided about something, so that they change their mind: · The court is unlikely to be swayed by those arguments.· Ed's parents never tried to sway him, but they are happy with the decision he's made.be easily swayed: · Insecure people are often easily swayed by flattery.
to be one of the things that has an effect on what someone decides or on what happens: play a part in: · Of course, the pay played some part in my decision to take the job.play a big/major part: · He was to go on to play a major part in the success of the new government.
if something comes into or enters into a decision, it is one of the things that influences you when you decide or choose something - use this especially in negative sentences: · Try not to let your personal feelings enter into the decision.· An applicant's age or sex doesn't come into it - we simply choose the best candidate for the job.
British /color American to influence someone's opinions or decisions, usually in a way that makes them less fair: · Foster's early experiences in Hollywood colored his views of the entire film industry.· How can he make fair and impartial decisions when political loyalties colour his judgement?
to enter a place · It was getting cold, so we went in.· There was a man at the door trying to stop people from going in.· Don't go in my room - it's a mess.go into something · Make sure you wipe your feet before you go into the house.
if someone comes in , they enter a room or building that you are in: · That must be Nina coming in right now.· As soon as Adrian came in, everyone stopped talking.· Why don't you come in the house for a little while and get warmed up.come into something: · When you first come into the building, you'll see the elevators just across the lobby.
formal to go or come into a room, building, or area: · You need a ticket to enter.· The army entered the city from the north.· As soon as he entered the room, he knew there was something wrong.
to succeed in entering a place, especially when this is difficult or takes a long time: · We queued in the rain for two hours and still didn't get in.· You usually have to wait a while before you can get in the club.get into something: · You shouldn't have any trouble getting into the concert - they've only sold half the tickets.
formal to succeed in entering a place or being allowed to enter, especially when this is difficult or takes a long time: · Brown gained admission by claiming to be a newspaper photographer.gain admission to: · We had to talk to several guards to gain admission to the courtyard.
to suddenly and noisily enter a room: · Two men with guns burst in and told us to lie on the floor.burst in on: · I ran back to Iris's and burst in on Polly who was ironing in the kitchen.burst into something: · Lotty burst into the room waving a letter in the air.
to suddenly enter a room where you are not wanted, for example because you are interrupting someone: · I was studying when Ben suddenly barged in.barge in on: · It's impossible to concentrate when people keep barging in on you.barge into something: · Some of the strikers came barging into the meeting and demanded to speak with the directors.
to enter somewhere in a way that makes the people who are already there notice you: · I waited until everybody was sitting quietly before making my entrance.make a grand entrance: · She walked slowly down the staircase, making a grand entrance.
to enter a place confidently and calmly, especially when other people would be a little nervous or embarrassed to enter: · Katie breezes in at eleven o'clock each morning, two hours late.breeze into something: · Giles just breezed into the office, used the phone, and then breezed out again.
to tell someone that they can come into your house, room etc spoken say come in when you want someone to come into your room, home, or office: · Come in and sit down. I'll be ready in a minute.· Marge, it's so good to see you! Come in! Come in!· "Come in," she said in answer to my second knock.
to ask someone if they want to come into your home: · Stella didn't know whether to ask him in or not.· A salesman came around this morning and I made the mistake of inviting him in.ask sb in/invite sb in for: · She seemed so upset, I felt I had to ask her in for a cup of tea.
spoken say come on in when you want someone to come into your room, home, or office, especially when you want to be friendly and make the other person feel welcome: · Hi! Come on in! Can I fix you something to drink?· "Mike, could I talk with you a minute?" "Sure, come on in."
to fall through the air to the ground · One of the climbers fell fifty feet.· A light rain was falling.fall out/into/from etc · She opened the cupboard and everything fell out.· There should be spaces between the boards of the deck to allow debris to fall through.· Fred fell out of the tree and broke his arm.· The girl had fallen from a fourth-floor window, but was not badly hurt.fall on · Careful that box doesn't fall on you, Charlotte!
to accidentally fall from something in a high position to the ground: · Jim was laughing so hard he fell off his chair.· A bag of groceries fell off the table onto the floor.
to suddenly fall a long way from somewhere high up: · The aeroplane's engines failed and it plunged into the ocean.plunge off/down/into etc: · Their car swerved to avoid a truck, and plunged off the cliff.plunge to your death (=fall a long way and be killed): · A skydiver plunged to his death yesterday when his parachute failed to open.
to fall from somewhere high up, very quickly and very directly: · The rope snapped, causing the climber to plummet several hundred feet down the mountain.· Two aircraft on a training flight collided and plummeted to the ground.
to fall suddenly from a high place straight down onto or towards the ground: drop onto/to/from etc: · Two bottles rolled across the table, dropped onto the floor, and smashed.· A few pine cones had already dropped to the ground.
to fall quickly through the air, rolling over and over: tumble down/off/from etc: · A little girl tumbled about 30 feet from the window of her family's third-floor apartment.
if rain, snow etc comes down , it falls heavily: · We can't go out now -- the rain's really coming down.· Snow was coming down so thickly I could barely see through the window.
ways of saying that something becomes fashionable · When did baseball caps come into fashion?· When mini-skirts first came into fashion, women said they'd never wear them.come back into fashion · Short haircuts for men went out for a time, and then they came back into fashion.
to become fashionable, especially for a short period of time: · Skateboarding first came in during the early 1980s.· New fashions seem to come in and go out again much more quickly these days.
to become fashionable and popular again, after having been unfashionable for a long period of time: · Who'd have thought platform soles would ever make a comeback?· Games like "Ludo" and "Snakes and Ladders" are really making a comeback.
to feel hot/tired/hungry etc: feel/be tired/hot/hungry etc · I was very tired and I just wanted to sleep.· Stop the car - Ben feels sick!· I know you're hungry but you'll just have to wait until dinner.· If you're feeling hot, go ahead and open the window.feel well/better · "How do you feel?" "I feel much better now I've had some sleep."
formal to have a feeling of pain, sickness etc: · He said that he had never experienced such pain before.· Many cancer patients experience nausea following chemotherapy.
British informal: come over all funny/weak/dizzy etc to suddenly feel weak, tired, ill etc: · I was standing at the bus stop when suddenly I came over all dizzy.· I'm sorry. I missed what you said. I just came over all funny for a minute.
when people fight each other if people fight , or if one person fights another, they hit or kick each other in order to hurt each other: · Two men were fighting in the street outside.· He said he'd fight anyone who tried to stop him entering.fight with: · Billy had been fighting with some kids from another school.fight over/about: · Two men in the bar began fighting over a game of cards.· As kids, we fought about everything, but now we're pretty good friends.
to fight with another person: · The two girls had a fist fight in the school cafeteria.have a fight with: · He ran away from school after he had a fight with a bigger boy.
to fight someone who is attacking you or holding you, especially so that you can escape from them: · She tried to struggle but he put his hand over her mouth.struggle to do something: · Vince struggled to free himself from the policeman's grip.struggle with: · It seems that he struggled with the robber and got quite seriously hurt.struggle against: · The victim had obviously struggled furiously against her attacker.
to fight someone by holding, pulling, or pushing them rather than hitting them: · The two boys wrestled for a while then gave up, tired.wrestle with: · His jaw was broken while he tried to wrestle with a drunken bus driver.
if two people come to blows , they start fighting after an argument or when both people are very angry: · Police say they don't know what the two were arguing about, only that it came to blows.
if two groups of people, especially people with opposing opinions or aims, clash , they fight for a short time: · Animal rights activists and fox-hunters clashed at the annual Boxing Day hunt.· Police clashed with demonstrators for the second time in a week.
to unexpectedly find something that you were not looking for · We found a lovely seafood restaurant by the harbour.· The body was discovered by a man walking his dog.· It wasn't until I got to university that I discovered poetry.
to find something unexpectedly when you are not looking for it but are doing something else: · I came across an interesting news item in yesterday's 'Times'.· Digging in the garden, she came across some pieces of bone.
to find something by chance and unexpectedly, especially something that was secret or that no one knew before: · The officers stumbled across the drugs when they stopped Moyers for a routine traffic violation.· Fleming was carrying out other research when he stumbled on penicillin.· Some people believe that Jenkins was murdered by government agents because he stumbled across a military secret.
written to find a place or thing that you were not deliberately looking for, or meet someone you did not know you would meet, especially when you consider this a good or lucky thing to have happened: · We happened upon a beautiful little hotel about an hour outside of Tours.· I was walking home from the station when I happened upon Richard.· Leafing through a magazine, I chanced upon a photo of an old high school friend, Robert Mason.
at a specific time in the future: an hour/10 years/2 weeks etc from now an hour, 10 years etc from the time when you are speaking: · The package should arrive a few days from now.· There may be no rainforest left 30 years from now.· A couple of months from now, you'll probably have forgotten all about him.
at a time in the future, that you have just mentioned: · I should be finished work by noon. Would you like to get together then?until then: · School starts in September, and until then I'll be staying with friends.· They're sending the results next week, so I won't know anything until then.by then: · Tell him he has two weeks to finish the job. If he's not finished by then, he's fired.
: 6 months/4 days/a week etc away/off if something that you know will happen is 6 months, 4 days, a week etc away or off , it will happen after 6 months, 4 days, a week etc have passed: · The next general elections are still two years away.· Mary was desperately looking forward to her retirement, which was less than a year off.· The wedding was more than a year away but she had already bought a dress for it.· The exams are still a few weeks off -- you've got plenty of time to prepare for them.
spoken say this when something will happen at a particular time in the future: · Come Monday, we'll be in our new house.· A mild winter is nice, but it means that come summer you're going to have a bug problem.
the time after now the time, especially a fairly long time, after now: · Ellen's finishing college soon but she doesn't really have any plans for the future.· As for the future, Tucker said she intends to take a well-deserved break before deciding what to do next.of the future (=that will exist in the future): · The car of the future may run on solar-powered batteries.
in the future - used especially when you know you will have problems or difficulties in the future: the day/week/months ahead: · David had his breakfast and thought about the day ahead.· Unemployment in the region is expected to grow in the months ahead.lie ahead: · The government faces some difficult decisions in the months which lie ahead.ahead of: · I know there are some big problems ahead of us, but I'm sure we can overcome them.
: generations/years/a long time to come for a long time in and affecting many people in the future: · In years to come, people will look back on the 20th century as a turning point in history.· Nuclear power stations will still be needed for a long time to come.
to not have happened yet but going to happen in the future, especially soon in the future: · The best is still to come -- there's chocolate ice cream for dessert.· The worst of the storm was still to come.
use this to say that something will always happen in the future, starting from now: · From now on, I'm not letting anyone borrow my car.· From now on, you kids will have to make your own lunch.· From now on, homeowners will have to get a city permit if they want to build an addition onto their homes.
British starting from now - use this especially to tell someone that they must do something starting from now: · In future, I expect you to be at work no later than 9.15.· In future, prisoners must serve at least half of their sentence before qualifying for any type of early release.
use this to talk about what will happen over a period from now until a long, short etc time in the future: · We don't know what will happen in the long term.· Aid to these countries is bound to run into billions of dollars in the long term.· Analysts say the reports could have a major impact on the stock market in the short term.
to tell people you are gay if someone who is gay comes out , they say publicly that they are gay: · John came out to his family last year.
if you out someone, especially a well-known person, you say publicly that they are gay when they have tried to keep this a secret: · The Advocate, a national gay magazine, outed the congressman.· The Air Force pilot was afraid of being outed by his ex-lover.
to get a letter/phone call/message · Did you get my message?get something from somebody · We get so many calls from salespeople.· I got an e-mail from a friend who lives in Bangkok.
formal to get a letter, phone call, or message: · I'm sorry I didn't call earlier, but I've only just received your message.· We received your letter the 1st of March.receive something from somebody: · He says he never received the fax from us.
if telephone calls, messages, letters etc come in , they arrive at a place where people are waiting for them: · Reports are coming in of an explosion in the centre of Paris.· Several calls have come in from people who think they can identify the two men.
if letters, calls, messages etc pour in or flood in , a very large number of them are received: · Letters of support have been pouring in since we began our appeal.· According to reports, contributions to Roe's campaign are flooding in.
formal if someone does something on receipt of a letter, sum of money etc, they do it when they receive it - used especially in official letters, instructions etc: · Upon receipt of a complaint, the department will investigate the problem and, if necessary, take appropriate measures.· The Department of Social Security can only issue benefits on receipt of your claim form.
to go to a meeting, party, concert etc · She invited me to her wedding, but I couldn't go.· How many of you actually went last week?go to · Did you go to the baseball game last weekend?· I have to go to a meeting this afternoon.
to go to a game, concert, meeting, party etc, either at the home of the person who invites you, or with someone who is also going there: · We're having a meal at my home tomorrow night. Do you want to come?come to: · Can you come to my party?· You should have come to the concert -- it was really good.
formal to go to an event such as a meeting: · Will you be attending the conference?· Employees are expected and required to attend team meetings.· Several people were unable to attend because of the storm.
informal to go to a particular event that you are expected to be at: · It's my sister's birthday party. She'll be very disappointed if I don't show up.· Chris turned up an hour late.show up/turn up for: · She showed up twenty minutes late for class.· Schmidt failed to turn up for a scheduled meeting on Monday morning.
to go to an event such as a party or a meeting, but only for a short time: · The president made an appearance on 'CBS This Morning'.· I hate these official cocktail parties, but I suppose I'd better put in an appearance for half an hour.
to reach a high enough standard to succeed in reaching the necessary standard, especially in a difficult job: · She would like to become a lawyer but she's not sure whether she'll make the grade.· Only the talented few make the grade in professional golf.
use this when you are asking or considering whether someone will be good enough to do a particular job or to reach a particular standard: · We'll give you a week's trial in the job so we can see how you measure up.measure up to: · How will the new General Secretary measure up to his new task?
to achieve the level of quality that is necessary or expected: · The new design doesn't come up to our usual standards.· The computer system has certainly come up to expectations -- it's great!
to be as good as people expect - use this especially about people and their achievements, performances etc: · It was impossible to live up to my parents' expectations of me.· He's been under a lot of pressure to live up to his reputation as the world's best player.
to be good enough according to a standard that has been officially established: · Does the tap water meet government health standards?· The building does not meet the essential safety requirements.· Only one system succeeded in meeting the main performance specifications.
to be good enough at something, especially something difficult, to be able to do it successfully: · Do you have what it takes to run this business, or shall I give someone else the chance?· If you have what it takes and can stand the pace of advertising, you can earn a very good salary.
to say officially that someone or something has reached the necessary standard: · Each car has to be passed by a team of inspectors before it leaves the factory.· His blood pressure was rather high so the doctor couldn't pass him as fit for the job.
not good enough · I'm afraid I can't translate this letter. My Italian isn't good enough.not be good enough for · The soil here isn't good enough for arable farming.· I paid $40 for that champagne, but it wasn't good enough for your snobbish friends.not be good enough to do something · a good club player, but not good enough to play for his country
formal not good enough and likely to cause problems or make people unhappy: · People should not accept unsatisfactory products. They should complain.· It was a most unsatisfactory meeting - not a single decision was made.· Sharing my office with the two secretaries proved an unsatisfactory arrangement.
not good enough for a particular purpose or for what someone needs: · The disease spread quickly because of poor living conditions and inadequate health care.hopelessly/woefully inadequate (=extremely inadequate): · My light clothing was hopelessly inadequate for the cold Japanese winter.· The training that nurses get is woefully inadequate.
if someone's performance, work, or products are not up to scratch , they are not of the standard that is necessary or expected: · I wonder if Sykes is ill. His work hasn't been up to scratch lately.· Schools are being threatened with closure if exam results are not up to scratch.· If they don't come up to scratch, you can do them all again.
generally considered to be below the necessary standard: · More money should be spent on the improvement of substandard housing.· Most household goods sold here are substandard, but food is plentiful and cheap.· substandard accommodation
to not achieve the level or quality that someone expects: · The film didn't live up to our expectations. It was too long and the acting was appalling.· Mark found that he simply could not live up to his teachers' high standards.· So far, she has not lived up to the tremendous promise she displayed earlier.
British spoken use this about something that is not good enough for a particular purpose: · I need strong nylon thread. Cotton won't do.· I can't accept this quality of work. It just won't do.· Handwritten notes won't do for our purposes. You'll have to type them.
American spoken to not have the ability, strength etc to succeed in a particular job or activity: · Most of the kids who start here are young and haven't worked before. Some just can't cut it.
when people, animals, or plants get bigger to become bigger and more developed over a period of time: · Tom has really grown since I last saw him.· The fish are kept in tanks until they have grown enough to be released into the river.grow one metre/two centimetres/six inches etc: · Amy grew 6 inches last year.grow into: · Within a few years, these saplings will grow into tall trees.grow to ten inches/two metres/70 feet etc: · The Eastern White Pine often grows to 200 feet.grow to a height/length/width etc of: · Sunflowers can grow to a height of ten feet.
if a child, plant, or animal develops , it gradually changes into the form it will have as an adult: · The baby develops very quickly during the first few weeks of pregnancy.develop into: · In less that 12 weeks the chicks will develop into adult birds.
to grow and become taller, especially in a short period of time: · Eleanor's getting bigger, isn't she? I hardly recognised her.get bigger and bigger/taller and taller: · The grass got taller and taller over the summer.
to suddenly get a lot bigger - use this about children and plants that have grown quickly: · Jo's shot up since I last saw her.· In May the plants all start to shoot up.
if plants come up , they start growing above the soil, especially in the spring: · I sowed lots of poppies, but they haven't come up yet.· The weeds keep coming up year after year.
if something increases in size , it gets bigger, especially as a result of particular conditions: · As the plant grows, the roots also increase in size.· If the tumour is not removed, it will increase in size and may cause a blockage.
if a plant matures , it grows to its full size: · A tree takes many years to mature.· In the hot weather the fruit matured quickly.
to happen · The accident happened at two o'clock this afternoon.· What's happened? Why are you crying?· The strangest thing happened when I was in Singapore.· Before I realised what was happening, the man had grabbed my bag and run off with it.anything can/could/might happen (=used to say that it is uncertain what will happen) · You mustn't go there alone at night. Anything might happen!
to happen - use this about events, performances, ceremonies and other things that have been planned to happen: · The wedding will take place at St Andrew's church.· Police are trying to prevent the demonstration from taking place.
if there is an event, accident, change etc, it happens: · There's a concert at the school next Saturday.· There has been a major accident on the Santa Monica Freeway.· I'll let you know if there's any change in our plans.
if a planned event is at a particular time or place, it happens or is arranged to happen at that time or place: · Dinner is at eight, so come at about half past seven.· Christmas will be on a Saturday next year.· Last year's degree ceremony was in the main university building.
formal to happen - use this especially about things that have not been planned or that people do not expect: · Major earthquakes like this occur very rarely.· The court will have to decide exactly what occurred on the night Mellor died.
to happen, especially as a result of earlier events or decisions: · Our problems came about because we ignored the advice of experts.· A number of educational reforms have come about as a result of the report.come about through: · The decrease in the number of salmon has come about through commercial overfishing.how did it come about that: · How did it come about that she married an awful man like that?
informal if something such as a problem crops up , it happens suddenly and unexpectedly: · A couple of problems cropped up while you were away.· If anything crops up, give me a call.· You have to learn to deal with difficult situations when they crop up.
if something, especially a problem or a chance to do something comes up , it happens unexpectedly: · He rang to say he would be late home -- something had come up at the office.· There are job vacancies from time to time. I'll let you know if anything comes up.· When the opportunity to go to the States came up, Dora took it at once.
if a planned event is coming up , it will happen soon: · Don't forget you've got exams coming up in a couple of weeks' time.· Our 12th annual Folk Festival is coming up again soon.
if something such as a job or a chance to do something turns up , it happens or becomes available, especially through good luck: · Ben's been looking for a job for two months, but nothing good's turned up.· I'd almost given up hope of finding a house I liked, and then suddenly this one turned up.
formal if a problem or difficult situation arises , it happens and comes to your attention: · It would be best to deal with these issues at once, before a crisis arises.arise over: · Several problems have arisen recently over questions of pay.arise from (=as a result of something): · The conflict arose from tensions between the different ethnic groups.
if something unpleasant strikes , it suddenly happens: · It is always devastating when this illness strikes.· Most people were fast asleep when the hurricane struck at 4.05 pm.
what you say to tell someone to hurry spoken · Hurry up or you'll be late for school.· If you want tickets, you'd better hurry up. There's only a few left.hurry up and do something · Hurry up and get your things, it's time to go.
say this when you want someone to hurry, especially when you are annoyed with them for being too slow: · Come on, you two, we're going to be late.· Oh come on! We don't have all day!
also get moving especially American spoken to start to do something or go somewhere more quickly than before: · Come on Sally, get a move on!· I think we'd better get moving, it's only five minutes to boarding time.
spoken say this when you want someone who is driving to hurry: · Step on it. We have a plane to catch.· You'll have to step on it if you're going to be there by eleven thirty.
British spoken to start working quickly: · Get cracking you people! I want the whole house cleaned by four o'clock.get cracking doing something: · When Alf arrives we'll get cracking moving the furniture.get cracking with: · It's time you got cracking with your homework.
British spoken say this when you are ordering someone to do something quickly: · I need to have that job done before lunch. Come on, jump to it!
to think of an idea · I've had an idea. What do you think about going to Greece this summer?· That's the best idea you've had all day.have an idea for · Do you have any ideas for a birthday present for Mum?have the idea of doing something · He had the idea of hiding Ali's shoes.
to think of an idea - use this especially to say what made you think of it or to ask someone what made them think of it: · Where on earth did you get that idea?get the idea for something: · Mark got the idea for the novel when he was in Boston in 1969.get an idea from: · It wasn't my own idea. I got it from a TV movie.get the idea of doing something: · She first got the idea of working with elderly people after the death of her mother.get an idea that : · I don't know how she got the idea that she was too fat.
to have an idea about what to do, how to do something etc: · At first, we couldn't think of a name for the band.· Seth decided to go home. He couldn't think of anything else to do.· Ask Dad. He might be able to think of a solution.
if an idea comes to someone, they have the idea suddenly and without trying hard to think of it: · The idea for the new advertising campaign came to me while I was visiting Thailand.it came to somebody that: · It suddenly came to me that I'd seen her somewhere before.come to somebody in a flash (=very suddenly): · It came to Blake in a flash that the man was really a detective.
informal to have a good idea after thinking about or working on a problem for a long time: · At last we hit on a way of getting Tom and Marcia to meet.· The architects finally hit upon a design that seemed to please everyone.
if someone's plan, work of art, action etc is inspired by something, that is what gave them the idea to do it: · The novel was inspired by her own experiences in India.· Some of Picasso's work was inspired by African art.· The 1911 strike was inspired by the revolutionary ideas flooding out of Europe at that time.
to start to have an illness to start to have an illness: · I feel all hot - I think I'm getting flu.· Smoking increases the risk of getting cancer.get something from/off someone (=get an infectious disease from someone else): · He thinks he got the cold from someone in the office.
to get a disease from someone else: · Luke has measles. I hope I don't catch it.catch something from/off somebody: · I think I must have caught the flu from Sarah.
also go down with something British spoken to start to have an illness, especially one that is not serious: · I'm afraid we can't come this weekend - the baby's gone down with a sore throat.
to get a not very serious illness such as a cold, a stomach problem etc - use this especially to say where you got it: pick up something: · I picked up a stomach bug on holiday in Turkey.pick something up: · Brendan has a cold. He must have picked it up at school.
to gradually become ill with a particular illness, but not by catching it from someone else: · After her family brought her home from hospital, she developed pneumonia.· It is possible to develop diabetes in adulthood.
to get a serious illness - used especially in formal or medical contexts: · Orwell contracted tuberculosis during the war and eventually died from the disease.· Dr Chalmers is trying to find out how many people may have contracted the disease in her area.
to impress someone if someone or something impresses you, they are so interesting, intelligent, original etc that you like or admire them very much: · None of the people I've interviewed so far have impressed me.· Quinnell's fifty-yard run down the touchline with the ball in one hand impressed the Wales coach.· What impressed the judges most was the originality of the dancers' performance.impress with: · The boy has impressed his doctors with his courage and determination.
to make someone admire you the first time they see you, so that they like you or approve of you: · When you go for a job interview, you have just a few minutes to make an impression.· Rick looked at the pretty salesgirl and smiled. Sandy could tell that he wanted to make an impression.make an impression on: · George, with his dark hair and blue eyes, made an impression on almost everyone he met.
to make someone admire or like you the first time they see you, for example by dressing or behaving in an impressive way: · Everyone was dressed in their best clothes, eager to make a good impression.make a good impression on/with: · It's pretty important around here to make a good impression with the boss.
to impress the people who are watching or listening to you by seeming intelligent, confident, skilful etc: · It was her first time on TV, but she came across very well.· I thought the play was rather long and slow, and the jokes didn't really come over well.
included in a price if a price you pay for something includes something else, you do not have to pay more for that thing: · The price of the computer includes £500 worth of free software.· The toy has flashing lights and a siren noise, but batteries are not included.be included in something: · You don't have to pay for your flights - they're included in the price of your holiday.
if something that you buy comes with another thing, the second thing is always included when you buy the first: · The luxury model comes with a matching metal carrying case.· Most new cars now come with a driver's airbag as standard.
especially British also all-inclusive especially American an inclusive price or cost includes everything: · The inclusive cost of the car, complete with tax and insurance, is £9,800.£50/$100 etc inclusive: · The cost of the flights, accommodation and car rental is two thousand dollars all-inclusive.· At a cost of $25 per person per night inclusive, bed and breakfast accommodation is fairly cheap.
to think of a new idea, design, or name for something to think of an idea for a new product, machine etc for the first time, and design it and make it: · Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.· Television was invented in the 1920s.· Theremin invented the weird electronic instrument that provided soundtracks to 1950s science-fiction movies.
to make something new in art, literature, fashion etc: · Agatha Christie created the character Hercule Poirot.· Mary Quant created a whole new look for women's clothes in the 1960s.
informal to produce a new idea, name, method etc by thinking carefully about it: think up/come up with something: · See if you can come up with a better name for it.· We need to think up some new ideas for the Christmas show.think something up: · We don't just think this stuff up. It's the way good lawyers always operate.
to invent a way of doing something, especially one that is clever and complicated: · The exercise programme was devised by a leading health expert.· Scientists have devised a test that shows who is most likely to get the disease.
to invent something such as a story or song, usually without writing it down: make up something: · For Halloween, the children made up stories about wolves and witches.· When my mother was in a good mood, she would make up songs about us.make something up: · That's a good riddle. Did you make it up yourself?
formal to think of a new idea, plan, or piece of work and develop it in your mind, until it is ready to be used, made etc: · "We wanted to make something new and original,'' said Colin Smith, the man who conceived the show.· The painting is beautifully conceived in every way -- composition, colour and texture.conceive of: · The young Edvard Munch conceived of a radically new approach to his art.
to think of a plan, idea, method etc, especially one that other people think is strange or unlikely to succeed: dream up something: · Banks seem to spend a lot of time dreaming up ways to get more money from their customers.· The machine looked like it had been dreamed up by a surrealist painter.dream something up: · "It's too complicated for me," Polly whispered; "how do they dream these things up?"
to invent a word or phrase: · The term "black hole" was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler.· A Polish refugee coined the term "genocide" to describe attempts to kill an entire group of people.
when prices, numbers etc become less to become less: · Attendance at the school's basketball games has gone down significantly in the last few years.· I'm hoping the price will come down if I wait a while.
to become less, especially by a large amount: · Sales have fallen dramatically in Houston and Toronto.fall/drop to: · At night, the temperature drops to -20°C.fall/drop from something to something: · Profits fell from £98.5 million to £76 million.
to become less - used especially in writing about business or technical subjects: · Experts say that the time parents spend with their children is decreasing.decrease to: · The speed of rotation gradually decreases to zero.
a gradual decrease in the number or amount of something good or important so that the situation becomes worse: · Firms with large debts may not have the financial strength to survive a prolonged sales decline or a recession.decline in: · We can expect a further decline in job vacancies.
when a price, level etc is reduced - use this when something is reduced deliberately: · New production methods led to a cost reduction of about 50 percent.reduction in: · Cleaner fuel has contributed to a reduction in air pollution.· a reduction in working hours
a reduction in the amount or size of something made by a government or large organization - use this especially when talking about politics or business: cut in: · Cuts in the education budget have led to fewer teachers and larger classes.pay/job/tax cuts (=cuts in wages, number of jobs, or taxes): · The whole team agreed to take pay cuts, rather than see their colleagues lose their jobs.· Some senators have called for huge tax cuts to stimulate the economy.
to drop very rapidly and by a large amount: · As soon as the sun went down, the temperature plummeted.· The drought has caused the price of hay to soar, and the price of cattle has plummeted.plummet/plunge 20 degrees/thirty points etc: · The stock market plunged 30 points when the news was announced.
if a number or the amount of activity happening tapers off , it gradually decreases: · Towards sunset, the rain began to taper off.
if supplies or numbers of something dwindle , they gradually decrease: · The country's foreign currency reserves have dwindled over the past few years.dwindle to: · The original platoon of 30 men had dwindled to 12.
if a price or value slides it gradually decreases in a way that causes problems - used especially in news reports: · Prices will continue to slide unless production is reduced.· The dollar fell in late trading in New York yesterday and slid further this morning.
also nosedive informal if the price or value of something takes a nosedive , it becomes lower very quickly and causes problems. If an economy takes a nosedive it become worse very quickly: · Since January, sales of cars and trucks, including minivans, have nosedived.· Shares on the stock exchange took another nosedive Friday.
when a large group comes together in one place use this when a large group of people comes together in one place: · The book club meets on the first Thursday of every month.· The bus trip leaves at 9 am - everyone should meet in front of the station at 8.30.
if a crowd or group of people gathers , they come together somewhere in order to do something or see something: · A small crowd gathered to watch the fight.· The family gathered on the porch to say goodbye.· Eager fans are already gathering outside the stadium.
if a group of people assembles , they all come together in the same place, especially as part of an organized plan: · Prisoners must assemble in the courtyard every morning for exercise.· Foreign diplomats and their wives had assembled in the Great Hall to meet the President.
if people or groups who do not usually meet each other come together , they meet in order to discuss things, exchange ideas etc: · People came together from all over the country to attend the funeral.· Seminars provide an opportunity for students to come together and discuss a particular topic.
to shake your head as a way of saying no use this when you want to make it clear that nothing will change a situation, your intention etc: no matter how much/many: · I'm determined to go to New York, no matter how much it costs.no matter what/who/when etc: · Paul always calls me every day, no matter where he is.· No matter what position he plays, he'll be a great asset to the team.no matter how good/small/hot etc: · I never win, no matter how hard I try.· Dad was determined to get to the truth, no matter how long it took.
use this when the fact that something is very big, good etc does not change a situation: however much/many: · However much I try, I just don't understand him at all.however however adj/adv: · I could never watch any movie more than once, however good it is.· Each one of us, however old or however young, is a valuable member of society.
used when it is not important what happens, who does something etc, because it does not change the situation or your intention: · "I don't care," Carrie cried, "whatever anyone says!"· We can take a taxi or the bus, whichever comes first.· He's a capable man. I'm sure he can deal with whatever problems arise.· Don't forget, it's your job to support your leader, whoever it is.whichever of somebody/something: · Whichever of the cars you choose, I'm sure you'll be very pleased.
use this when what is done is not affected by different situations, problems etc: regardless of: · The rate of contribution to the pension plan is the same for all employees, regardless of age.regardless of whether/what/who etc: · Many people stick with their banks regardless of whether they offer the best deal.carry on/continue regardless: · It may rain by the end of the day, but we plan to carry on regardless.
use this when the same thing happens in every case without being affected by facts such as age, size, time, or position: · The job is open to anyone with the right qualifications, irrespective of their age.· Justice for all, irrespective of race or class, is everyone's right.irrespective of what/where/who etc: · All children should have access to the latest technology, irrespective of where they live or how much their parents earn.
use this to say that something should be ignored because it does not affect the situation or your intention: never mind that!: · "How do you know so much about Jake anyway?" "Never mind that!"never mind something: · I want this wedding to be perfect, never mind the cost.never mind what/why/when etc: · Never mind what Jalal says, Peter is a trusted member of our community.never mind that: · Never mind that it's late. I need to talk to you now.
use this when you are determined to do something whatever happens: · I'll be there come what may. I promise.· Some people are getting out of the country fast, but my cousin's family has decided to stay, come what may.
when you offer to help to say that you will do something in order to help someone: · She was the kind of teacher who was always ready to offer advice and encouragement.offer to do something: · I offered to help her with the dishes.thanks for offering: · "Do you want me to look after the children next week?" "No, but thanks for offering."
to offer to do something, especially something difficult or unpleasant: volunteer to do something: · Jill volunteered to go with me to the hospital.· Will anyone volunteer to help me clean up this mess?volunteer for: · No one volunteered for night duty.
British to offer to give help, information, money etc, especially after someone has publicly requested something: · The number of operations may have to be limited unless more blood donors come forward.come forward to do something: · None of the parents came forward to help with the school party.come forward with: · The negotiations will come to an end unless someone comes forward with a new proposal.
spoken say this when you are offering to help someone, especially when you want to be kind or friendly to them: · Let me drive you to the station.· Let me give you a hand with that, mate.· Why don't you let me cook dinner tonight?
also shall I do something British say this when you are offering to do something for someone: · Can I take your bag - it looks heavy.· Would you like me to mail that letter for you? I'm going into town.· Shall I make a copy for you?· "Can I get you anything else?" the waiter asked.
to not try to plan things, but deal with them as they happen to not worry about or plan for something that has not happened yet, but decide what to do when it happens: · I always think the best way of approaching an interview is to take it as it comes.take things as they come: · The only way to manage when you have small kids is to take things as they come.take life as it comes/take each day as it comes: · If I were you, I'd just enjoy each day and take life as it comes.
spoken to not make plans about how to deal with a particular situation, but decide to wait until it actually happens and hope that you will know what to do then: · "Shall we tell Dad what's happened?" "Let's play it by ear and see what sort of mood he's in."· We've booked the flight, but not the accommodation -- we'll play it by ear when we get there.
to not plan very far in the future because you have too many problems now to be able to think about what may happen later: · Since Jim got ill, we've just had to live from day to day.· There's nothing as depressing as living from day to day, as the unemployed are forced to do.
if you deal with a problem or difficult situation one day at a time , you try to think about just what is happening in the present and do not try to plan what you will do in the future: · I've no idea where we'll live. Anyway, one day at a time.take/live one day at a time: · In order to overcome their addiction, they have to learn to take one day at a time.
to have a problem · If you have any problems, just come and ask me.· I had a few problems getting the copier to work.have a problem with · I'm having a bit of a problem with my dishwasher.· One landowner says he has never had any problems with hikers crossing his property.· Jane can be quite difficult to get on with -- I've had one or two problems with her in the past.
to have problems that make it more difficult to do something: · You look as if you're having trouble -- do you want any help?have trouble/difficulty with: · I had some trouble with the car this morning.· She's having a little difficulty with her spelling.have trouble/difficulty doing something: · He had a lot of trouble finding a job.· The child was having difficulty breathing.
to have serious problems: · It's clear from these figures that the company is in trouble.· When someone's in trouble it's natural to try and help them.get into trouble (=start having serious problems): · I took out a loan but got into trouble when I lost my job.in deep/serious/big trouble (=have very serious problems): · Consular officers can help and advise you if you are in any serious trouble while abroad.
to have a lot of problems or a lot of difficulty doing something: · Premature babies have a hard time even under the best of circumstances.have a hard time doing something: · A lot of people are having a hard time making ends meet.· Anyone calling the 202 area code this weekend had a hard time getting through.
to have a problem, a difficult choice, or the possibility of something bad happening soon: · We are often faced with dilemmas or problems which have no easy answers.· Manufacturing industries are faced with decreasing productivity and increasing international competition.· When faced with an unfamiliar word, good readers are able to make guesses based on the meaning and structure of the sentence.
to have a difficult problem or opponent that you must deal with or fight against: · The company is up against tough competition from abroad.· When you're surfing and get hit by a wave, it's a reminder of what you're up against.· In the semi-finals he will be up against one of the best players in the game.
to start having problems or difficulties that you have to deal with: · Older people applying for jobs come up against an age barrier.· The committee found itself coming up against the prejudices of many staff when it tried to introduce new working practices.
to experience problems, difficulties, or opposition while you are trying to do something: · Drivers on the M25 are likely to encounter fog and black ice tonight.· Many of the children encountered some difficulty in learning the material.· The government has encountered strong opposition over its plans to build a new airport.
to unexpectedly start having problems while you are doing something: · The corporation has run into serious financial problems.· Our staff will be happy to answer your questions should you run into difficulties installing the equipment yourself.
informal to have a lot of difficult problems to deal with or a lot of things to worry about: · Don't bother your mother -- she's got a lot on her plate at the moment.· Susan's had a lot on her plate recently, what with the car accident and everything.
make progress when you are trying to do something if you make progress , you gradually start to achieve what you want: · Far too many people are still unemployed, but we are making progress.make progress in/on: · At Yalta, Russia and Ukraine made progress in several aspects of their bilateral relations.· Rapid progress has been made on the development of drugs for the treatment of Aids .make progress towardsBritish /toward American: · The talks were aimed at making progress towards greater European union.
if something progresses, it develops in the way that you want and you gradually start to achieve what you want: progress well/quickly/successfully etc: · Work on the ship progressed quickly.· Bob was a very good football coach, and the team progressed very well.progress according to plan: · So far the building work has progressed according to plan.
if a particular activity or piece of work goes well, fine etc, it happens in a way that is good, so that you can gradually achieve what you want: go well/fine/better etc: · Fiona says that her new teaching job is going really well.· Things went better after the new computer system was installed.How's something going?: · "How are your exams going, Luke?" "Fine, thanks."the way something's going: · I feel very happy about the way the project's going so far.
informal if you are getting there , you are starting to achieve what you want, after difficulties or problems that have made progress slow: · The company had a lot of problems initially, but they're getting there now.· It's been a struggle paying off all our debts, but I think at last we're getting there.
if something, especially scientific and technical knowledge, advances , it develops and improves: · Computer technology is advancing very rapidly.· Our knowledge of the deepest parts of the ocean has advanced considerably over the last ten years.
to make progress in spite of problems or difficulties, because you are determined and have worked hard: · Sylvia's teachers all say that she has made great headway this term.· The new agreement indicated that the government was at last making headway against the terrorists.make headway in: · If either side is to make any headway in these negotiations, they must be prepared to compromise.
if an event or activity moves quickly, slowly or in the right direction, it progresses in that way: · Things moved quickly once we had agreed a price on the house.· I think that the trade agreement is moving in the right direction.· Police say that the investigation is moving slowly, and they are hoping that more witnesses will come forward.
also come on British if something such as a piece of work comes along , it progresses in a very satisfactory way: · Mary's reading and writing has really started to come along recently.come along well/fine/better etc: · The work on the new school sports centre is coming on very well.How's something coming along?: · "How's your project coming along?" "Oh, fine, thanks."
to punish someone severely to immediately punish someone for something they have just done, because you want to make it clear that their actions are completely unacceptable: come down on for: · Mrs Green really came down on him for swearing.come down heavily/hard on somebody (=punish someone very severely): · In the examinations we shall come down hard on any student who attempts to cheat.· The authorities are threatening to come down more heavily on drink-driving offences.
informal if someone in authority throws the book at someone, they give them the severest punishment that can be given: · Unless you plead guilty, the prosecutors will throw the book at you.· Superior Court Judge Stephen Rosen threw the book at Davidson, sentencing him to six years in prison and ordering him to pay $1.6 million in restitution.
when something is long or high enough to reach something also go as far as something to be long enough to reach a particular point: · I want a rug that goes right to the edge of the room.· You'll have to move the television a little this way. The plug won't go as far as the wall from there.go all the way to somethingalso go right the way to something British: · The fence went all the way over to the other side of the park.
to be long enough, high enough, or deep enough to get to a particular place or point: · It won't work - the ladder won't reach.· The snow almost reached my knees.· You see, the paint doesn't quite reach the edge of the paper.reach as far as/down to etc: · I don't think these curtains will reach down to the floor.
to be high enough to reach as far as a particular point: · She was wearing grey socks that went right up to her knees.· After the flood, the water level in the river almost went up to the top of the dam.go all the way up to somethingalso go right the way up to something British (=reach the whole distance to something): · The Christmas tree went all the way up to the ceiling.
to be long enough to reach down as far as a particular point: · The rope went down to the bottom of the cliff.· She had long blonde hair that went down to her waist.go all the way down to somethingalso go right the way down to something British (=reach a long way down): · The scar on his face went from his eye all the way down to his chin.
to reach up to a part of the body such as the knee, neck, or shoulder: · In the shallow end of the pool, the water comes up to my waist.· Freddie's been growing so fast - he already comes up to my shoulder.
if a piece of clothing comes down to a part of your body such as your elbows, waist, or knees, it is long enough to reach that part: · I can't wear this sweater - it almost comes down to my knees!· If you go into a mosque, you should wear sleeves that at least come down to your elbows.
if something such as a river, road, or area of land stretches to a particular place, it reaches that place: stretch down to: · We followed a small track that stretched down to the sea.stretch as far as: · We could see the mountains stretching as far as Vermont.stretch from something to something: · Today, just 5% remains of the original wooded land that stretched from the Atlantic to the Mississippi.stretch all the way to somethingalso stretch right the way to something British: · The oil slick stretched all the way to the horizon.stretch into the distance/stretch as far as the eye can see (=continue as far as you can see into the distance): · There were poppy fields stretching as far as the eye could see.
if something such as a river or area of land extends as far as a particular place, it reaches that place - use this especially in technical writing, descriptions etc: : extend as far as/to etc: · The River Nile extends as far as Lake Victoria.· Smith Point is a small piece of land extending a hundred yards or so into the water.extend all the way from something to somethingalso extend right the way from something to something British: · The Soviet Union extended all the way from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean.
to try very hard to remember something · You must try to remember what happened -- it's very important.· His name? Wait a minute. I'm trying to remember.try to remember who/what/how etc · I'm trying to remember how the theme tune goes.
to try to remember something by deliberately thinking about it a lot: think of: · You used to go out with the man from the bank, didn't you? I just can't think of his name.try to think: · "What did you do with the keys?" "Hang on, I'm just trying to think."think what/why/how etc: · I can't think where I put it.· Just let me think what the title was.think hard (=use this to emphasize that you try to remember something): · If she thought hard enough, she could just about remember what her mother looked like.think and think (=think for a long time): · He thought and thought but he couldn't remember.
if something comes back to you, you gradually start to remember it again after a lot of effort: · I can't think of the title at the moment, but it'll come back to me.· If you can remember all that, I'm sure the rest will come back to you.
British to try to remember something that happened a long time in the past: · Lisa, if you cast your mind back, I think you'll recall that it was your idea.cast your mind back to: · Henry cast his mind back to the fateful evening.cast your mind back over: · He frowned, casting his mind back over the conversation they had held.cast your mind back forty years/three days etc: · Cast your mind back a few weeks to the Athletics Championship in Armagh.
to try extremely hard to remember something that you find very difficult to remember: · Desperately, Irvin racked his brains, but there was nothing he could tell them.· She racked her brains, trying to remember what David had said.rack your brains for: · They sat in silence, racking their brains for the name of the road.
when one thing happens because of another if something happens because of an earlier problem, event etc, it happens as a result of it: · Sampras seemed likely to miss the US Open because of a back injury.· Because of problems with the fuel system, the launch has been put back a week.· She was chosen for the Peace Prize because of her courageous fight for democracy.
to happen because of something else that happened or was done: · Our success is the result of a great deal of hard work.· The big population increase in the US was partly the result of immigration.· It is thought that the train crash resulted from a fault on the line.
to be the result of actions, experiences or good or bad conditions: · The agreement was the product of 21 months of negotiations.· Saturday's goal was the product of some poor defending by the opposing team.
if something comes of a situation or activity, it happens because of it: · The company is interested in the merger: many positive things could come of it.nothing came/has come etc of something (=nothing happened because of something): · I've applied for that job, but so far nothing's come of it.no good comes etc of something (=something does not have a good result): · My mother always said that no good would come of the relationship.
if something, especially a problem, stems from something else, it develops because of it and is directly connected with it: stem from from (doing) something: · Many of my patients' anxieties stem from experiences in their childhood.· The dog's aggression stemmed from being kept locked up all day.stem from the fact that: · Part of the education problem stems from the fact that class sizes have increased dramatically in the last 5 years.
if something such as a problem or difficult situation arises from something, it starts to exist because of it: · The argument arose from a misunderstanding.· Lung cancer is just one of the many diseases that arise from smoking too many cigarettes.arise from the fact that: · The difficulty arises from the fact that there has been insufficient time to train new staff.
to happen or exist as a helpful or useful result of someone's actions, decisions or discussions: · We're waiting to see what comes out of the inquiry before we make a decision.· Much of what came out of the Rio Summit did not have an immediate effect.
happening because of something else: · He died as a result of cold and exhaustion.· Over 60 drugs have been removed from sale as a result of recent tests.
happening or existing because of something else that happened before: · Burrows took the resulting penalty kick.· Without government support the factory would be forced to close, with the consequent loss of thousands of jobs.· Britain's resulting debt burden was greater than that of the French.
to go to the place where you were before · I left my hometown 12 years ago, and I have no desire to go back.go back to · When will you be going back to Japan?go back for · We'll have to go back for the tickets - I think I left them on the desk.go back in/out/inside/downstairs etc · It's cold out here - shall we go back inside?· The phone started ringing again as soon as I went back upstairs.go back the way you came · Part of the trail was flooded, so we had to go back the way we had come.go back home · Frank's gone back home to visit his parents and won't be back for a week.
if someone comes back , they return to the place where you are: · Rachel's left me, and I don't think she'll ever come back.come back to: · When will you be coming back to London?come back from: · He's just come back from a vacation in Miami.come back for: · Whoever left the gloves will probably come back for them tomorrow.
to go back or come back to the place where you were before. Return is used more in written or formal contexts than go back or come back: · I left early, but promised to return the next day.return to: · He had to return to India to look after his mother.return from: · Alastair returned from the office late that night.return home: · As the soldiers returned home, their wives had to readjust to living with them again.
to return to your home or to the country where you were born: · It's late - I should go home now.· John used to go home once a month when he was at college.go home to: · I've enjoyed my time in Europe, but I'm really looking forward to going home to America.
to return to the house where you live: · What time did you get in last night?· I usually get home about 7:30 - you can try calling me after that.get in/get home from: · He hasn't had anything to eat yet. He just got home from work.
to be in the place where you were before you went away: · Jack! What a surprise! How long have you been back?· Carol is away on business, but she should be back next week.· We'll get together when you're back from vacation.
: run/drive/fly/walk etc back go back to where you were before by running, driving etc: · We took the train to Paris, but flew back.back to/from etc: · We cycled back from the beach in the evening.· It was a beautiful day, so I decided to walk back to the office.
to say something suddenly or unexpectedly to say something suddenly and loudly because you are angry, surprised, or excited: · "What a beautiful house!'' she exclaimed.· ''Aha'!', he exclaimed triumphantly. ''We knew you'd come''.
to suddenly say something, in an unplanned way, which other people find unusual or surprising: · It was strange to hear a little old lady come out with a swear word like that.· I don't want to make a speech -- I'll only come out with something stupid that everyone will laugh at.· You never know what he'll come out with next.
to suddenly say something without thinking, especially something embarrassing or something that should be kept secret: blurt out something: · She had blurted out my secret when she was upset, and now everyone knew about it.blurt something out: · He couldn't go through the agony of lying to them again, so he blurted everything out.blurt out that: · She couldn't think of a good excuse, so blurted out that she was pregnant.
to seem if someone or something seems happy, dishonest, true etc, that is what you think they are, even though you are not completely certain: seem nice/happy/strange etc (to somebody): · Katie seems happy at her new school.· The whole situation seems very strange to me.seem to be/do something: · Lack of money seems to be the main problem.· Ricky graduated, but didn't seem to know what to do with his life. He was drifting.it seems (that)/it seems to somebody (that) (=use this to say what you think about a situation): · It seems that someone forgot to lock the door.· It seemed to Jim that Amy was worried about something.seem like especially spoken (=seem to be): · Kevin seems like a nice guy.· "Why did you move to New York?" "It seemed like a good idea at the time."there seems to be: · There seems to be something wrong with the TV.it seems as if: · There were so many delays - it seemed as if we would never get home.it seems likely/possible/probable (that): · It seems likely that they will release the hostages soon.
formal to seem: appear to be/do something: · My father appeared to be in good health.· The archaeologists uncovered both domestic structures and what appear to have been commercial buildings.appear calm/rude/angry etc: · It's difficult to ask someone their age without appearing rude.· The city appeared calm after the previous night's fighting.it appears (that): · Police said it appeared that John Seidler's death was an accident, but an investigation continues.
if someone or something looks good, bad, tired etc, that is how they seem to you when you look at them: · That book looks interesting.· Warren looked tired after his long drive.· We had run out of money, and the situation looked pretty hopeless.look like something: · She's really pretty - she looks like a model.· The burglar was holding what looked like a shotgun.look as if: · You look as if you haven't slept all night.it looks as if (=use this to say how a situation seems to you): · It looks as if we are going to need more help.
if someone or something sounds good, bad, strange, angry etc, that is how they seem to you when you hear about them, read about them, or hear them: · Istanbul sounds really exciting.· He sounds a pretty strange person.· I called my dad and told him what has happened. He sounded really angry. sound like: · "We're all going clubbing tomorrow night." "That sounds like fun." it sounds (to me) as if (=use this to say how a situation seems to you when you hear about it): · It sounds to me as if he needs to see a doctor.
to seem to have particular qualities or characteristics, especially because of the way you talk to or behave towards other people: · In the book, Strayhorn comes across as a sympathetic human being, while Stan Getz emerges as a volatile character with a violent temper.come across as being something: · He often comes across as being rather cold and arrogant.come across well/badly: · She doesn't come across well in interviews, but she's very good at her job.
if someone or something gives the impression that something about them is true, they make other people think it is true, especially when it is not: give the impression (that): · Paul liked to give everyone the impression that he knew a lot about cars.· We always leave the lights on when we go out at night, to give the impression there's someone in the house.give the impression of: · Mirrors are used in the dining room in order to give the impression of space.
if a person or situation strikes you as strange, interesting, unusual etc, this is your opinion of how they seem: · What strikes me as odd is the fact that she didn't report the burglary to the police.· She didn't strike me as the type who would want to become a teacher.strike somebody as being/having something: · He never struck me as being very interested in politics.
if someone or something shows signs of age, improvement, tiredness etc, some features of their appearance or behaviour make them seem old, better, tired etc: · The economy is showing no signs of any improvement.· Doctors at the hospital say Mr Crowther is beginning to show signs of recovery, although he is still in intensive care.show signs of doing something: · If the soil shows signs of drying out, water it sparingly.
if a thing or event has all the hallmarks of something, it has all the typical features of someone's work or actions, and therefore seems to have been done or made by them: · The explosion has all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack.· The painting isn't signed by Matisse, but it has all the hallmarks of one of his later works.
to seem to involve or be caused by a particular attitude, feeling, or intention, especially a bad one: · The government's new asylum bill seems inhumane, and smacks of racism.· The chairman's decision is disturbing, and smacks of dishonesty.
to start to exist if something such as an organization or a country comes into being or into existence , it starts to exist: · Pakistan came into existence as an independent country in 1947.· Darwin's theory of evolution explains how different species came into being.
to suddenly start to exist in a very short period of time: · Dozens of websites have sprung up to provide information for travelers.· New dot.com companies are springing up all the time.
if something such as a problem, a difficulty, or an argument arises , it appears or starts, usually as a result of something else happening: · When a conflict arises in the workplace, you should aim to repair the relationship as quickly as possible.arise from/out of: · Low achievement at school often arises from poverty and bad social conditions.if/when/should etc the need arise (=if etc it becomes necessary): · All staff are expected to do some overtime, if the need arises.
if an important idea, group, or organization is born , it starts to exist - use this especially when you are describing the history of something: : · With the invention of the electric guitar, rock 'n' roll was born.· Picasso was painting pictures in a Cubist style long before the Cubist movement was born.
when something new starts to exist or be used: · The arrival of the railroads after the Civil War produced a huge building boom in California.· the arrival of gene technology
to stop a bad or unhealthy habit · She had smoked for nearly twenty years before she finally managed to stop.stop doing something · The health advice to people is simple - stop eating so much fat and eat more fruit and vegetables.
informal to stop doing something that that has been an unhealthy or harmful habit: · If you've smoked for a long time it can be very difficult to quit.quit doing something: · They told me at the hospital to quit drinking for a while.· I quit taking the pills because they were making me put on weight.
to stop doing something such as smoking, drinking alcohol, or taking drugs because it is harmful or unhealthy: · If you smoke, try to give up or at least cut down.· She gave up drinking over 10 years ago.
informal to stop doing something that has been a habit for a long time, especially a bad or dangerous habit: · The centre provides help for addicts who have kicked their habit and want to stay away from drugs.· Some smokers use hypnosis to help them kick the habit.
to stop taking medicine or drugs that you have been taking regularly: · The doctor told me I could come off the drugs six months after the operation.· People need help to come off hard drugs like heroin and cocaine.
if a child grows out of a habit, he or she stops doing it as they get older: grow out of it: · Wetting the bed is a common problem, but children nearly always grow out of it.· He became obsessed with football at the age of four, and he's never grown out of it!
to deal very strictly with bad behaviour or crime to deal very strictly with a bad behaviour or crime by punishing people severely for it: · You'll find that Mr Evans comes down very hard on people who don't do their job properly.· The authorities are really coming down hard on tax evasion.
to start dealing with an illegal activity in a much stricter way than before: · The Athletics Federation plans to crack down on drug and steroid abuse by athletes.· The government has promised to crack down on crime.· City authorities were quick to crack down on the rioters.
to treat a particular crime or activity much more strictly than before to stop it from becoming more common: · New laws will clamp down on the illegal smuggling of cigarettes and tobacco.· Recently the courts have clamped down on joy-riding.
to make rules, laws, or controls more strict so that it is harder for people to break them: · The prime minister has promised to tighten up the law on carbon dioxide emissions.tighten up on: · The music industry is determined to tighten up on the illegal copying of CDs.
when something has the result that you want it to have if something that you plan to do or try to do succeeds , you get the result that you hoped for: · Both sides could make these talks succeed by seeking a real and lasting peace.· As long as the financial crisis continues, economic reform cannot possibly succeed.succeed in doing something: · None of the measures taken by the government have succeeded in reducing the spread of violent crime.
if something that you plan to do or try to do is successful you get the result that you hoped for: · If the treatment is successful, she could be back at school next month.· a small but successful program to boost the number of African-Americans getting into collegehighly successful (=very successful): · It was a highly successful campaign.the most successful: · This has been Baltimore's most successful art show ever.so successful (. . . that): · The case of Thailand illustrates why family planning programs have been so successful in many countries. prove successful (=be successful): · The scheme was started in January 2000, and has proved largely successful.
if a plan or method works , it produces the result that you want: · "I can't open this jar." "Try putting it under hot water. That sometimes works."· I think your treatment worked Arnie, my headache's gone.· The recipe works just as well if you cook the fish in a microwave.
if something goes well , such as a meeting, party, or performance, everything happens in the way you wanted and there are no problems: · Ray met my parents for the first time this weekend, and it went really well.· The audition was OK, but it could have gone better I suppose.· Most people seem to think the party went well.go well for: · Good luck with the project, and I hope everything goes well for you.
if a plan, method etc has some success , it is fairly successful: · The early warning system has had some success; for example Pacific coast residents get four hours notice of a potential earthquake.· Only in the late 1990s did efforts to reduce sectarian violence have some success.
if something comes out right or turns out right , it succeeds in the end when it had seemed as though it would fail: · People enjoy romantic fiction because it offers a reassurance that things will always come out right.· Just when it looks as though everything will turn out right, tragedy strikes and Jenny dies of a fatal illness.come out right in the end: · She's scared she'll fail her exams, but I think everything'll come out right in the end.
if something that you arrange such as a party or trip comes off , it happens successfully even though there are problems in arranging it: · We had hoped to organize a trip to the theatre tonight, but it didn't come off.· Good try Tim. Shame it didn't quite come off.
if hard work, effort, a risk etc pays off , it has a successful result at a later time: · I think if you show a bit more consideration for other road users, you'll find it pays off.· We put a lot of hard work into local initiatives, and that's really starting to pay off now.
if a plan, idea, or action bears fruit , it has the successful result that it was intended to have, especially after a long period of time: · The campaign for debt relief will not bear fruit for another two or three years. · I hope you feel your involvement has been worthwhile and has borne fruit.
a meeting, discussion etc that is fruitful is successful, useful, and produces good results: · So far, the investigation has not been very fruitful.· This was one of the most fruitful debates of the conference.· If the talks prove fruitful, the working groups will start bargaining in May.
when something continues to exist in spite of difficulties · Many of the small, independent businesses are struggling to survive.· Only a few of Leonardo's earlier paintings still survive.· Our friendship has survived the bad times and has grown stronger.· The Cathedral survived repeated bombings during the Second World War.
to survive a period of great difficulty: · If we can come through this crisis, the company's future looks bright.· The German team were in deep trouble at the beginning of the match but in the end they came through.
if a company stays afloat , it continues to survive in spite of difficult financial problems that may force it to close: · Ever since we started the business two years ago, we've been struggling to stay afloat.
to continue to live your normal life in spite of problems · The program provides homeless kids with the basics they need to survive: food, shelter, and health care.· Liz Taylor has survived several broken marriages, as well as periods of drug and alcohol addiction.· I don't think I could survive another year as a teacher. It's just too stressful.
someone who is used to dealing with great personal problems and difficulties and is able to survive them: · As more is revealed, the audience begins to see Wendy as a survivor rather than a victim.a born survivor (=someone who seems to have a natural ability to survive difficulties): · Although she's had an extremely hard life, Tina Turner is a born survivor.
to successfully deal with a very difficult problem or experience and be able to continue with your normal life after it: · She's had problems before and she's always come through.· Some children come through their parents' divorcing better than others.
to succeed in reaching the end of a very difficult period or experience: · It was not an easy time for Tracy but her friends helped her get through.· "Oh Jane, how will I ever get through this?" she said, and the tears started flowing again.
when several numbers produce another number as a total to be the total amount when everything is counted: · Including wine, the bill came to $70.· Total profits from all sources for the year came to about $15 million.
if a total reaches 10, 50, 100 etc, it increases until it is equal to that number: · Hurricane damage could reach billions of dollars.· China's economic output is likely to reach $13 trillion within the next few years.· The city's population is expected to reach 12 million by the year 2010.
if numbers added together make 10, 50, 100 etc, that is the answer or the total: · Two plus two makes four.· If Jane comes, that will make six of us.· There are eight submarines as well as the ships, making a total fleet of 34.
if a set of several figures adds up to 10, 50 etc, that is the total when you add them all together: · The three angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees.· If you follow the diet exactly, it adds up to about 1,200 calories per day.· With the hotel, the flights, and the food, it all added up to much more than I had expected.
to reach a total, especially a large total: · Credit card fraud amounts to about $17 million a year.· Nationally, deaths from smoking-related illnesses amount to about 30 people each day.· A thousand-word essay might amount to roughly 6,000 bytes on a computer disk.
to reach a particular total - used especially in official contexts: · The company was forced to pay fines and penalties totalling $24.8.· The number of people included in the study totalled 170.
if a group of people or things numbers a particular figure, especially a large figure, that is the total when they are all included: · The crowd of students numbered at least 2000.· In the capital, unemployed workers now number 12% of the workforce.
to join together with other people, organizations, or countries especially written if people, organizations, or countries unite , they start working together or join together as a single unit, for example because they have the same aims as each other: unite to do something: · In 1960, British and Italian Somaliland united to form Somalia.· Various political and religions groups united to oppose the dictatorship.unite against: · Police chiefs called on the local people to unite against the drug dealers.unite behind: · a speech in which he asked America to unite behind the new President
if two or more people team up , they agree to work together, especially in business, music, or theatre: team up with: · I teamed up with a local journalist, and we worked on the story together.team up to do something: · It all started when Paul McCartney and John Lennon teamed up to form a band.
if people or organizations get together , they join together in order to do something, especially in an informal way: · Designers from both countries got together and held a joint exhibition.get together to do something: · The whole family needs to get together to decide what to do about the trip.
to join together and work very closely together so that you succeed in achieving the result you want: combine to do something: · The opposition parties combined to drive the Prime Minister out of office.combine with: · Members of the radical Right combined with communists in holding an illegal meeting.
if people or organizations join forces , they join together in order to work together or to fight against an enemy: join forces to do something: · The two manufacturers, who were once bitter rivals, have now joined forces to develop a new sports car.join forces with: · The socialists hope to join forces with the communists to fight the next election.
if people or organizations come together , especially ones who usually disagree or compete with each other, they join together in order to do something: · Women from the different organizations have been able to come together and agree on certain basic principles about what they, as women, are fighting for. come together to do something: · The Conference called on everyone to come together to resist the government's planned educational reforms.
if two or more organizations amalgamate , for example colleges, unions, or hospitals, they join together to form a single organization: · The two schools amalgamated in 1974.amalgamate with: · The women's association has amalgamated with the men's.amalgamate into: · A and B squadrons amalgamated into a single squadron.
if two companies or organizations merge , they join together to form a single company or organization: · The two banks have announced plans to merge next year.merge with: · In 1969, Cadbury merged with Schweppes, changing the whole character of the company.
when the sun or moon comes up into the sky if the sun or the moon rises , it goes above the level of the horizon or it goes further up into the sky: · A full moon rose over the valley.· What time does the sun rise tomorrow morning?· The moon rises nearly an hour later each night.· By midday the sun had risen high in the sky and was burning down on us.
if the sun or the moon comes up , it moves above the level of the horizon: · The moon came up slowly over the pine trees.· The sun was coming up and you could just see the tops of the mountains.
to visit a person to go and spend time with someone, especially in their home: · I visit my grandparents at least once a month.· Paul visited her every day when she was in hospital.· We won't be that far away - you'll be able to come and visit.
spoken to visit someone: · I'm going to see my brother and his family tomorrow.· Better go and see your father tonight.· Why don't you go and see your mother?go see American spoken: · You really should go see Mattie some time.
to visit someone at their house, especially if they live close to you: · I saw your Mum today, and I promised that we'd go round later.go over/go around/go round to: · Let's get a bottle of wine and go over to Simon's place.
if someone comes over or comes round , they visit you at your house, especially if they live close to you: · I'll come over at about 7 o'clock,· Why don't you come round later and we'll discuss it over dinner?
to visit someone, especially for a particular reason: pay a visit to somebody: · Your hand looks very swollen, I think you should pay a visit to the doctor.pay somebody a visit: · Isn't it time you paid your mother a visit?
to visit someone that you have not seen for a long time, while you are spending some time in the area where they live: look somebody up: · I'll give you my address so you can look me up whenever you're in London.look up somebody: · I looked up a few old friends while I was in Birmingham.
if a lot of people, especially members of your family, descend on you, all of them suddenly visit you at the same time: · Sorry for just descending on you like this, Pam -- we had nowhere else to stay.· The following week all my family descended upon me.
to stop sleeping to stop sleeping. Wake is more formal than wake up and is usually used in writing.: · She woke early the next morning, and slipped out of the house unseen.· Babies often wake because they are hungry.· The dog suddenly woke up and started barking.wake up at 5 a.m./12 noon etc: · I woke up at five o'clock and couldn't get back to sleep again.
not asleep: be awake: · "Are you awake, Lucy?" she whispered.· I'm usually awake before anyone else.be wide awake (=be completely awake): · It was nearly three in the morning, but Jill was still wide awake.be half awake/barely awake (=be not quite awake): · He listened, only half awake, as the teacher's voice droned on.· Barely awake, we stumbled out of the tent to find ourselves in a foot of water.keep somebody awake: · I've stopped drinking coffee in the evenings, as it tends to keep me awake at night.stay awake: · Some members of the audience were clearly having difficulty staying awake.lie awake (=be unable to sleep at night): · Ben lay awake, worrying about next day's exam. · I've lain awake at nights, turning the problem over and over in my mind.
also come round British to gradually become conscious again after being given a drug or being hit on the head: · She was coming round after her operation, but she still felt dizzy and very sleepy.· Henry's eyelids flickered. 'He's coming around!' Marie cried.
to move slightly and wake for a short time, then go back to sleep again: · As I entered the room, she stirred slightly, then went back to sleep.· Roger momentarily stirred, turned in the bed and murmured something inaudible.
with another thing or other things · I've put our passports in your handbag with the travellers cheques.· I hope you haven't thrown that letter out with the garbage!· a traditional Christmas dinner of roast turkey with all the trimmings
together in the same place, or added together , not separately: · Mix the butter and the sugar together.· That skirt and jacket look really good together.· Together these two paintings are worth more than $10,000.
in the same place as another thing or other things: · I keep my insurance policy in the top drawer, along with my other important documents.· Put it over there along with the other presents.
if something that you buy comes with something else, it is sold with an additional object that is included in the price: · Every new camera comes with a leather case and free film.· All the main courses come with salad and chips.· We have 5000 log cabins to rent. All come with their own private sauna.
an accompanying book, document etc, is one that you get together with something that you buy, and which gives you more information about it: accompanying booklet/volume/letter etc: · The video recorder has an accompanying booklet which contains full instructions.· Each coursebook has an accompanying workbook for grammar practice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Can you come here for a minute? Come a bit closer and you’ll be able to see better. What time will you be coming home? Jess came flying round the corner and banged straight into me. What day are your folks coming to dinner? Will you be coming by train? Have you come far (=travelled a long way) today? I’ve come a long way to see you. Some of the birds have come thousands of miles to winter here. I knew he’d be able to take care of himself, come what may (=whatever happens). The computer comes complete with software and games. She came first in the 200 metres. The news will come as no surprise to his colleagues. I don’t think I came across very well (=seemed to have good qualities) in the interview. She felt as if her life was coming apart at the seams (=failing completely). High heels are coming back into fashion. Jobs were hard to come by. We need to come down hard on young offenders. I made the mistake of answering back, and she came down on me like a ton of bricks (=very severely). It all comes down to money in the end. His horse came in second to last. The performance on the first night came off pretty well. It’s come out that several ministers received payments from the company. I tried to explain everything to her, but it came out all wrong (=not in the way I intended). At least he’s got the courage to come out and say what he thinks. We decided to come out on strike. I’m sorry about that – I don’t know what came over me (=I do not know why I behaved in that way). He didn’t come over very well (=seem to have good qualities) in the interview. I never thought it would come to this. We need to be prepared to fight, but hopefully it won’t come to that (=that won’t be necessary). All those years of studying, and in the end it all came to nothing. It’s come to something when I’m not allowed to express an opinion in my own house! I’m afraid I’ll have to cancel our date – something’s come up. The resort certainly failed to come up to expectations.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The bus came to an abrupt halt. The team came within an ace of winning the championship. People still remember the 1958 revolution and what came after (=happened after it). The whole thing comes apart so that you can clean it. Seals come ashore to breed. Simpson came off the bench to play in midfield. She waited for the water to come to the boil (=begin to boil). Air fares to Africa don’t come cheap (=are expensive). Yet another scandal followed close on the heels of the senator’s resignation. The event came to a close (=finished) with a disco. The house comes complete with swimming pool and sauna. The whole of this area came under Soviet control after World War II. A large branch came crashing down. The crunch came when my bank asked for my credit card back. When it came to the crunch, she couldn’t agree to marry him. The negotiations have reached a dead end. I spent all morning looking for a suitable present, but came home empty-handed. People came from far and wide (=came from many places) to see the concert. Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. The Church will welcome him back into the fold. Environmental issues came to the fore in the 1980s. Two wins at the start of the season were a foretaste of things to come. His proposals only came to fruition after the war. Many people have worked together to bring this scheme to fruition. Take your swimming trunks with you – they might come in handy (=be useful). Permanent jobs are hard to come by (=difficult to find or get). an error that would come back to haunt them for years to come writers who might come under the heading of postmodern fiction writers The decision to buy Peters came hard on the heels of the club’s promotion to Division One. He went into hiding in 1973. He left the gas on and nearly blew us all to kingdom come. Psychiatry has come a long way (=developed a lot) since the 1920s. The screw has come loose (=became loose). The driver had forgotten to fasten the safety chain and the trailer came loose (=became unattached). a revolutionary new drug that has just come onto the market These insects reach full maturity after a few weeks. All their plans came to naught (=failed). I’m warning you – don’t come any nearer! The garden’s coming along very nicely now (=it is growing well). Peace negotiations came to nought (=were not successful). She never let her dislike for him come out into the open. The egg cracked open and out came a baby chick. The shelving comes to pieces (=divides into separate parts) for easy transport. The shower head just came to pieces (=broke into separate parts) in my hand. Things have come to a pretty pass, if you can’t say what you think without causing a fight. She first came to prominence as an artist in 1989. Now are you gonna come quietly, or do I have to use force? Mark’s contract comes up for renewal at the end of this year. In the second half Leeds came roaring back with two goals in five minutes. The children came running out of the house. I came second in the UK championships. This new technique is the shape of things to come (=an example of the way things will develop in the future). Help came in the shape of a $10,000 loan from his parents. She’s started to come out of her shell a little. The news came as something of a surprise. Strikers brought production to a standstill. She came straight out with it and said she was leaving. The Conference called on all good men to come together to resist socialism. One of these buttons has come undone. I was really pleased that they came to visit me. Suntanning first came into vogue in the mid-1930s.
Can you come here for a minute? Come a bit closer and you’ll be able to see better. What time will you be coming home? Jess came flying round the corner and banged straight into me. What day are your folks coming to dinner? spoken (=used to say that someone or something is coming towards you) Ah, here comes the bus at last!
Ah, here comes the bus at last! Will you be coming by train? Have you come far (=travelled a long way) today? I’ve come a long way to see you. Some of the birds have come thousands of miles to winter here. (=used when something has not happened yet but will happen) The most exciting part is yet to come.
The most exciting part is yet to come. I knew he’d be able to take care of himself, come what may (=whatever happens). The computer comes complete with software and games. She came first in the 200 metres. The news will come as no surprise to his colleagues. I don’t think I came across very well (=seemed to have good qualities) in the interview. She felt as if her life was coming apart at the seams (=failing completely). High heels are coming back into fashion. Jobs were hard to come by. We need to come down hard on young offenders. I made the mistake of answering back, and she came down on me like a ton of bricks (=very severely). It all comes down to money in the end. His horse came in second to last. The performance on the first night came off pretty well. It’s come out that several ministers received payments from the company. I tried to explain everything to her, but it came out all wrong (=not in the way I intended). At least he’s got the courage to come out and say what he thinks. We decided to come out on strike. I’m sorry about that – I don’t know what came over me (=I do not know why I behaved in that way). He didn’t come over very well (=seem to have good qualities) in the interview. I never thought it would come to this. We need to be prepared to fight, but hopefully it won’t come to that (=that won’t be necessary). All those years of studying, and in the end it all came to nothing. It’s come to something when I’m not allowed to express an opinion in my own house! (=used to say that the world etc is in a bad situation)
I’m afraid I’ll have to cancel our date – something’s come up. The resort certainly failed to come up to expectations. The bus came to an abrupt halt. The team came within an ace of winning the championship.· Since the act came into force, all public buildings must have disabled access.
People still remember the 1958 revolution and what came after (=happened after it). (also conclude an agreement formal)· It took the two sides several weeks to reach an agreement.· The two sides failed to come to an agreement.
(=it happens)· His announcement came after two days of peace talks.
(=find a way of dealing with a problem)· The government is struggling to come up with answers to our economic problems.
The whole thing comes apart so that you can clean it. Seals come ashore to breed. (=help someone)· One of her fellow passengers came to her assistance.
· Camps in the south came under attack from pro-government forces.
· Mark and I came from very similar backgrounds.
Simpson came off the bench to play in midfield.· Suddenly a motorbike came around the bend at top speed.
(=is for that amount)· The bill came to $60.
(=separate into many different parts because of being old or damaged)· The book was so old that I was afraid it would fall to bits.
· His sudden death came as a huge blow to us all.
She waited for the water to come to the boil (=begin to boil). (=it is published for the first time)· Everyone was waiting for the new Harry Potter book to come out.
· The room was hot and no breeze came through the window.
(=start to produce buds)
· I waited and waited but the bus didn’t come.
· A button has come off my skirt.
· When the case finally came to court, they were found not guilty.
· By the time her case went to trial, her story had changed.
· The case came before the federal courts.
· The data we collected fell into two categories.
Air fares to Africa don’t come cheap (=are expensive).· Things came to a climax with a large protest march on June 30th.
· The climax came when the president ordered an air strike on the capital.
Yet another scandal followed close on the heels of the senator’s resignation. The event came to a close (=finished) with a disco. (also go down with a cold British English) informal (=catch one)· A lot of people go down with colds at this time of year.
(also emerge from a coma formal)· Alice wanted to be there when he came out of his coma.
(=do something to show you are sexually interested in someone)
· Stuart came second in the swimming competition.
The house comes complete with swimming pool and sauna.· The negotiations took place and they arrived at a compromise.
(=decide something)· I eventually came to the conclusion that I wanted to study law.
· Local people have often come into conflict with planning officials.
(=meet or spend time with someone)· It’s good to come into contact with people from different cultures.
The whole of this area came under Soviet control after World War II.· At that moment, a police car came around the corner.
· The case came to court 21 months later.
A large branch came crashing down. (=be criticized)· The deal came under fierce criticism from other American airlines.
The crunch came when my bank asked for my credit card back. When it came to the crunch, she couldn’t agree to marry him. (also darkness descends literary)· As darkness fell, rescue workers had to give up the search.
The negotiations have reached a dead end. (=make a decision after a lot of thought)· We hope they will reach their decision as soon as possible.
(=think of or suggest one)· We asked the architect to come up with another design.
· Mark is coming over for dinner.
(=something you want happens)· I’d always wanted to go to Africa and at last my dream came true.
(=stop taking drugs permanently)· It was years before I was able to come off drugs.
· Your father said he’d be home early.
I spent all morning looking for a suitable present, but came home empty-handed. (=end)· Arsenal’s ten-match unbeaten run came to an end with a 3–2 defeat at United.
· People passed in single file through the narrow entrance.
(=something begins to have an effect)· Consumer confidence also enters the equation.
(=be respected or admired more or less by someone)
(=start to exist)· Pakistan came into existence as an independent country in 1947.
(=be as good as someone hoped or expected)· The match was boring, and didn't live up to our expectations at all.
· Scientists have been unable to find an explanation for this phenomenon.
People came from far and wide (=came from many places) to see the concert. (=become fashionable again)· Short skirts are coming back into fashion this year.
(=it is made available for people to see)· The film is due to come out in May.
Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. (also the fog descends literary) (=it appears)· Day after day the fog came down.
The Church will welcome him back into the fold. Environmental issues came to the fore in the 1980s. Two wins at the start of the season were a foretaste of things to come. His proposals only came to fruition after the war. Many people have worked together to bring this scheme to fruition.· The building work comes with a 30-year guarantee.
(=something or someone stops moving)· In front of them, the truck gradually slowed down and came to a halt.
Take your swimming trunks with you – they might come in handy (=be useful). Permanent jobs are hard to come by (=difficult to find or get). an error that would come back to haunt them for years to come writers who might come under the heading of postmodern fiction writers· The heating comes on at six.
The decision to buy Peters came hard on the heels of the club’s promotion to Division One. He went into hiding in 1973. (=arrive at your home) It was midnight by the time we got home. What time are you coming home?
It was midnight by the time we got home. What time are you coming home? British English, leave/come out of the hospital American English· Her mother never left the hospital.
(=think of an idea)· He’s always coming up with interesting ideas.
(=someone suddenly thinks of an idea)· The idea came to me while I was having a bath.
(=be influenced by someone or something)· They had come under the influence of a religious sect.
· The architect’s chief inspiration came from Christopher Wren.
· The tent comes with instructions on how to put it up.
(also an issue arises formal) (=people started to discuss it)· The issue arose during a meeting of the Budget Committee.
He left the gas on and nearly blew us all to kingdom come.· Dickson came up the ladder from the engine room.
(=start having leaves)· The apple tree had finally come into leaf.
· A letter came for you today.
· The only light came from the fire.
Psychiatry has come a long way (=developed a lot) since the 1920s. The screw has come loose (=became loose). The driver had forgotten to fasten the safety chain and the trailer came loose (=became unattached). (=come to someone's house for lunch)· Can you come to lunch tomorrow?
· The mail had come late that day.
· I can’t get this dirty mark to come out.
a revolutionary new drug that has just come onto the market These insects reach full maturity after a few weeks. (=stop taking a medication)· Coming off the medication made him more aggressive.
(=you suddenly remember things clearly)· Evelyn hugged her daughter, as memories came flooding back to her.
· A majority of the migrants had come from this region.
(=comes to a place)· The mist came down like a curtain.
(=is earned and received)· Rob wasn’t working for a while, so we had less money coming in.
(=used to say how someone makes their money)· All of Dawson’s money came from drugs.
(=the next few months)· Further work is planned for the coming months.
(=appears as it gets dark or a cloud moves)· The moon came out from behind the clouds.
(=be different from or similar to other things of the same type)· He clearly comes from a different mould than his brother.
(=be easy for you to do because you have a natural ability) Speaking in public seems to come quite naturally to her.
Speaking in public seems to come quite naturally to her. All their plans came to naught (=failed). I’m warning you – don’t come any nearer! The garden’s coming along very nicely now (=it is growing well). (=something bad that someone fears actually happens)· The company's worst financial nightmare has now come true.
· The noise seemed to be coming from the kitchen.
(=be noticed by someone)· This problem first came to our notice last summer.
Peace negotiations came to nought (=were not successful). She never let her dislike for him come out into the open.· We had outgrown our house when the opportunity came up to buy one with more land.
· The strongest opposition came from Republican voters.
The egg cracked open and out came a baby chick. (=keeps starting and stopping)· The pain comes and goes but it’s never too severe.
(also attend a party formal)· Are you going to Tom’s party?· About 500 people will attend a party in her honour.
(=begins to be the government)· The ruling party came to power in May 2001.
· I’m sorry, she can’t come to the phone right now.
The shelving comes to pieces (=divides into separate parts) for easy transport. The shower head just came to pieces (=broke into separate parts) in my hand. (=think of a plan)· The chairman must come up with a plan to get the club back on its feet.
(=talk about the most important thing immediately)· I haven't got much time so let's get straight to the point.
· There comes a point where you have to accept defeat.
· We stood on the quay and watched the ships come into port.
· You have a duty not to disclose confidential information that comes into your possession.
(=start having it)· How did you come into possession of this document?
· This letter came in the post this morning.
(=start being in control)· Tony Blair came to power in 1997.
· The new prime minister has already come under pressure from the opposition to call an election.
Things have come to a pretty pass, if you can’t say what you think without causing a fight. (also come at a high price) (=involve suffering or a bad result)· She won fame, but it came at a high price.
· The boy just come out of prison after doing two years for assault.
She first came to prominence as an artist in 1989. (=think of one)· The sales staff came up with an innovative proposal.
(=start to be doubted)· The special protection given to these animals has come into question in recent years.
Now are you gonna come quietly, or do I have to use force? (also finish first/last etc in a race)· She came third in the race.
(=it falls)· If the rain starts coming down, we can always go inside.· The monsoon rain comes down in sheets.
(=get a rash) My mother comes out in a rash if she eats seafood.
My mother comes out in a rash if she eats seafood.· I would rather you came in spring.
· He criticised European leaders for supporting a regime that came to power through violence.
· The court's decision came as a huge relief to Microsoft.
Mark’s contract comes up for renewal at the end of this year. (=be reviewed after a particular period of time has ended)· His contract is coming up for review.
In the second half Leeds came roaring back with two goals in five minutes. The children came running out of the house. (=be included in it)· Banks and building societies fall within the scope of the new legislation.
(=be examined)· The cost and efficiency of the health care system has come under increasing scrutiny.
I came second in the UK championships. (=lose a game or competition, or not be as successful as someone else)
This new technique is the shape of things to come (=an example of the way things will develop in the future). Help came in the shape of a $10,000 loan from his parents. She’s started to come out of her shell a little. (=be very unexpected)· The collapse of the company came as a shock to us all.
(=it happens)· I don’t know how this situation has come about.
(also a smell emanates from somewhere formal)· A delicious smell of baking came from the kitchen.· He was getting complaints about the smell emanating from his shop.
· We are working together to find the best solution we can.
The news came as something of a surprise.· The sounds seemed to be coming from the study below.
· I never drink before going on stage.
· I came off stage last night and just collapsed in a heap.
(=be good enough)· Her work was not up to standard.
Strikers brought production to a standstill. (=appear in the sky)· We arrived home just as the stars were coming out.
She came straight out with it and said she was leaving. (=start a strike)· An estimated 70,000 public sector workers went on strike.
(=people start talking about it)· The subject of payment never came up.
(=think of something to suggest)· We’ve come up with five suggestions.
(=appears when cloud moves away)· The rain stopped and the sun came out.
(=appears at the beginning of the day)· As the sun rises, the birds take flight.
(=be surprising)· The announcement came as a surprise to most people.
(=not be surprising)· It came as no surprise when Lester got the job.
(=be thought to have probably done something wrong)· He was still under suspicion of fraud.
· I went back home by taxi.
· These birds helped Darwin develop his theory of natural selection.
(=someone suddenly has a thought)· The thought occurred to him that she might be lying.
(=the sea comes nearer)· Once the tide comes in, the cove is cut off.
The Conference called on all good men to come together to resist socialism.· If the case ever went to trial, he would probably lose.
· The book comes a little too close to the truth for their liking.
One of these buttons has come undone. (=be useful)· The extra income would come in useful.
(also a vacancy arises/occurs formal) (=there is a vacancy)· A vacancy has arisen on the committee.
· Suddenly the pyramids came into view.
I was really pleased that they came to visit me. Suntanning first came into vogue in the mid-1930s.· She wrote to say she couldn’t come to the wedding.
· His wish came true when he was called up to play for England.
· She would love it if you came.
(=the year that is about to start)· Here are some events to look out for in the coming year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· The dream of making this world into a global market can only come about by perpetuating injustice.· The addition of neural network methods came about because of several problems.· From what subsequently came about in history, one may say what was his intention.· And is it not highly unlikely that there should be a rule which ensures that what we desire will come about?· However, we might pause to speculate how the above formulation of the Keynesian labour supply function came about.· And many more are about coming back to school.· No, such changes do not come about by laws, do they?· It all comes about as deliberately, if unconsciously, contrived.
· You are the most stubborn, irritating child I have ever come across!· Gore came across as an earnest, deliberately spoken politician, often gesturing with his hands.· Seeing her husband, she set it down by the back door and came across to the stable.· Flipping through the magazines, she came across an article on Alcoholics Anonymous.· She still travels the world, tirelessly delivering papers at scientific gatherings and converting anyone she comes across on the way.· Take advantage of any restroom facilities you come across.· Advanced Hooray Most Hoorays you are likely to come across will have been educated at a public school.· I emphasize that I have no wish to come across here as the skunk at the process improvement garden party.
· But no artist seems to have taken over the comic strip format whole until Art Spiegelman came along.· The fifth to come along is my interviewee, a college classmate.· I met Charlie, and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service.· We have Billy Reagan, too, who is coming along nicely.· And record years on Wall Street do not come along like the Staten Island ferry.· Because when he was coming along he was always getting me to tell him the story about you.· Arid as I became more relaxed our love life returned to how it was before the children came along.· One day some tree cutters came along and they chopped down his two friends.
· Roy Barker is coming around with 3-1 / 4 sacks and Chris Doleman is still a force at 36.· She will come around, in time.· Even the business schools are coming around to that point of view.· Then he came around the bend and saw the bicycle.· When Matt Williams followed with a clean single back up the middle, Justice came around to score.· Alternatives: Some of the best Sauvignons around come from New Zealand.· And archivists seem to have come around to recognizing his leadership qualities.
· It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone.· She will come back to laugh and read me books of scholars and hard-working sons.· Why not come back to my place for coffee?· Helen came back out with Majella.· Sometimes a single son or daughter will give up their own home to come back and care for parents.· People are coming back from holiday and putting their money to work.· He'd come back and make another excuse to keep me hanging around.· She would come back with rather strange vegetation.
· Then the vans were manoeuvred on to the grass verge so that the new vehicle could come by.· If outright desire was hard to come by at City, we had our escapes.· Jobs were difficult to come by anyway.· I did not want to be sitting in my truck, waiting for a wolf to come by.· Still, even in Biarritz asps are presumably hard to come by and the audience was in no mood to be critical.· When a coffin comes by, we take our hats off and shut our mouths no matter who is in it.· Accusations were also made against the police for active complicity in crime, but proof was difficult to come by.· Cars came by occasionally, usually at a fairly good clip.
· When the chimpanzees came close to the leopard, he activated its mechanism, so that it started to move its head.· Miguel wanted to trust Firebug; he came close to letting everything spill out.· And if anybody came close to finding out, curtains ....· But its spotlight circled seas at least a half-mile from him, never coming close.· That came close to the need she felt.· And this night, he comes close to getting seriously injured.· But Jade Pike has come close to dying many times in the past year.· Now Midleigh realized that no tide he had ever experienced had come close to the fury of the deceptive river.
· Neil was coming down the stairs as I reached the door.· But everything that came down to us that we knew about and checked out would turn out to be wrong.· It's come down through the years, this story.· He came down to breakfast surprised to find cakes and candies heaped high on his plate.· Besides which, in the long run it came down to the word of four people against one.· So, it comes down to this.· You're to come down at once.· With crackling roar... it came down upon the Union line.
· It was up on Hugh's wall when I first came to his house in Shettleston.· Both men and women believe that women's family responsibilities, especially if young children are involved, must come first.· The two sources of power that first come to mind are solar and nuclear.· When I first came here from Puerto Rico, he was there for me.· I wish you could understand how it was, Ray, when Mike first came to Launceston.· When she asks if there are any questions, she can guess which one will come first.· Species: In the Latinized name for a plant, the genus comes first, then the species, a subdivision.
· Evidence shows that where one victim comes forward, and an investigation starts, a trail showing unpopularity with other individuals emerges.· Payment for councillors might also persuade more working-class representatives to come forward.· Now I have come forward and said my piece.· Will the owner please come forward?· But when a volunteer does comes forward, it often becomes clear to the group that the feared repercussions do not exist.· Will it be any easier for defendants to find witnesses who are prepared to come forward?· In all, more than 20 young men, many of them former altar boys, came forward with similar stories.
· Isn't that what you did when you came here?· They come here looking for a better life, the good, old-fashioned way our grandparents did: By working for it.· She had to leave there at fifteen and come here.· Before Friant, Hollywood stars like Clark Gable used to come here to duck hunt.· Let's suppose Delia did come here that afternoon.· That is why we have come here.· This lady here came ashore at landing point theta, and promptly collapsed.· They will always be able to come here if we need them.
· In mounting dismay she peered into the gloom, the invidious nature of her position coming home to her with a vengeance.· Had he come home alive, some reporters would have no doubt trashed the trip as a taxpayer-paid junket.· Instead of staying the requisite two years I came home after just nine months.· When they came home, there would be nothing they could do.· A sharp note has come home informing me that the costume must be made by the child.· You come home to find your Snakehead chasing your wife around the lounge.· He came home and unlocked the front door, calling out as he came.· She cried when she first came home.
· It's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door.· No money coming in, all of that.· She felt that they were really making progress but Sarah's friend Edie Meadows, who lived nearby, came in.· This is where you come in.· And that is where the three bored blacks came in.· As he said it, Fran opened the door and came in with a basket of apples.· Five of those who'd come in with Martinho had disappeared subsequently.· He was not thinking now, just watching the numbers come in.
· And for years and years they never came near.· No doubt her husband would never come back.· Other nomes never came in, because it was drafty and stunk unpleasantly.· He never came close to realizing his dream of winning the presidency.· It never comes easily - and nothing comes just from my head.· Sam Smith is one of many natives who wish good times had never come to Williamson County.· But there must be the desire to see in a new way or the vision will never come.· His greatest glory is that he can not do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him.
· It's not fair, I haven't come off that ladder yet.· The schedule is this: I came off work a half-hour ago.· Look, after coming off tour I've just got no f-ing politics, religion, anything.· That way, a speech comes off as extemporaneous, but it flows from one idea to another.· She came off the slope at an uncontrollable pace that took her across the clearing and into the trees.· Also, Lett, who is terrific, comes off the ball fast and tries to fly up the field.· White people thought our colour would come off if they stroked our skin.· Every time they do it, it comes off like clockwork.
· Just before we arrived at the station, the lights came on.· United... come on now.· I'd hoped to come on to Prague after that.· They started kissing so hard that the music stopped and all the lights came on, and everybody screamed and howled delightedly.· Sam and Joe, come on.· He called back harshly that she should come on in!· Angry Jemson suffered the embarrassment of coming on as substitute and then being substituted himself at Carrow Road.
· Good may eventually come out of evil.· While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field.· Nevertheless, many lawyers do come out in favour of the process.· When they came out of the oven, they looked like a tortilla, flat as a pancake.· His final report comes out in February.· When you come out of a tunnel, you are drained.· And on housing estates all along the line, residents came out to watch the strange scene.· Her breath comes out in a loud hiss.
· However, I had already begun the process, long before coming over, of minimizing and dismissing my cultural identity.· I got hold of a person from Protection and Advocacy to come over and talk to me.· To her surprise he offered to come over to the office.· I sit down and Oy comes over again.· About 2 o'clock that afternoon, three Allied planes came over the coast and started to drop supplies by parachute.· After that they kept coming over and questioning me and everything....· But I think you were right to come over and talk to me.· One day he was in the schoolyard with Firebug when this guy named Raul came over.
· So you've come round here to bash-up my young brother?· He stayed in the room for as long as he could bear it, waiting to see if Ray would come round.· Some man came round, and James phoned me afterwards, told me what he'd said.· The summer passed away and the golden months of autumn came round.· As Jake started to come round the desk towards her, she turned away, averting her eyes.· When I came round I couldn't remember anything, had no idea who I was.· And he was so puppyish that first time they came round together to my place.· There was a local schoolteacher coming round to give art therapy; that at least should provide some light relief.
· Annabel's call from Scott came through to Saracen just as dinner was announced.· The men who came through stayed there, waiting for their ship.· From what we know when the information did come through, it was sometimes partial and often faulty.· A few days later, another band of Apaches came through and found one of the dead soldiers.· Well, you could break all the moulds by smoothing the way for Mary O'Rourke to come through as your successor.· He came through to play at our school in this long, stretch Franklin car, and we followed him into town.· A reprieve would have come through.· In my view Reagan had come through with flying colors.
· These, as he entered the headship, were coming together as a mixed voluntary-aided comprehensive high school.· That they should come together we suppose was predestined.· But those that come together for mutual support can and do survive.· And just as the deal started coming together, the first hitch came: Original drummer Dusty Denham left.· Is it a parody of the platonic republic, where politics, art and philosophy come together?· And along the crooked border where the landmasses once came together, the researchers made an extraordinary discovery.· Socially, economically and in human terms, the citizens of the Community are coming together.· But our offensive line is coming together.
· Can you give me one more day to come up with something?· After two or three years, Raymond gave up coming to court to argue.· Here's what we came up with: Gravier chartered the Jet from the Hansa Jet operation.· His grades came up, and he got involved.· Each of these groups came up with a list of proposals which were sent to everyone attending.· Evidently the emergency unit was coming up First, right at us.· Every morning I come up and comb them, keep them soft, pleasant-looking.· I came up with Spoogie the Badly Stained Carpet, who kids love.
NOUN· King finally came to the conclusion that there was nothing he could do to help his patients lose weight.· If you care to try building that newsletter with PagePlus, however, you might see why I came to those conclusions.· I came to quite another conclusion after hearing the stories of their lives.· Similarly he came to the unusual conclusion that, since colours are simply visible species, all colours must have equal validity.· I guarantee you'd come to the same conclusion, sir.· Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion.· I had come to the conclusion that there was no way of putting them back.
· Black spots will appear on silver if it comes into contact with dry dishwasher powder.· Blood is very toxic to neurons, which stop working and often die when the blood comes in direct contact with them.· The divide between the two groups is considerable yet, increasingly, they do come into contact with each other.· They were serious shoes, meant to come in direct contact with the surface of the planet.· She wasn't even sure why she'd been so reluctant to come into contact with him.· But after a few steps my head came into contact with an object.· Is there danger to those who've come into contact with them?· They then gradually came into contact with the outside world and were lured on to government reservations run by missionaries.
· The overthrow of Siyad Barre came at the end of a month of intense fighting on the streets of Mogadishu.· But like a drug-induced euphoria, the leader-inspired high may come to an end.· But the increasingly nasty dispute came to an abrupt end as the government announced a settlement.· A convergence of prophecies agrees that something big is coming soon, some end of cycle phenomenon.· The ruling came at the end of a five-year legal battle between a divorced couple that cost £840,000.· Our conversation seems to have come to an end.· David Lawrence, whose first overseas Test came to a tragic end when he broke his kneecap while bowling.· Nor was he willing to let bygones be bygones once a quarrel had finally come to an end.
· Analogue computing will come back in force.· In 1986 the new Public Order Act came into force.· The Convention was to come into force upon ratification by 30 states.· The Act and Regulations of 1988 came into force on 1 December 1988.· They are highly controversial and can not come into force until after the next election.· A directive which comes into force next year will set rules on television advertising across frontiers.
· They came back from a surprise David Currie opener to level in the second half through Steve Walsh.· Which should come as no surprise to anyone who has heard his songs.· Thus the strike came as no surprise to those involved.· I got ta tell you this comes as a surprise to me, fella.· The retrograde rotation of Venus came as a considerable surprise.· Of course, in one way, this comes as no surprise.· His suicide mission came as a surprise to more people than just his family.· This comes as no surprise to Balkan-watchers who have been following the evolving tragedy in the country.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► come by something► come by (something)► come on somebody/something► as nice/as stupid etc as they come► come over somebody► come over (all) shy/nervous etc► coming (right) up!► come right out with something/come right out and say something► come in!► come to think of it/come to that► come July/next year/the next day etc► don’t come the innocent/victim/helpless male etc with me► come, come/come now► come across somebody/something► come along!PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► somebody’s chickens have come home to roost► which came first, the chicken or the egg?► come a cropper► take each day as it comes► have something coming out (of) your ears► easy come, easy go► take effect/come into effect► first come, first served► come into focus/bring something into focus► come into force/bring something into force► be/come/go halfway to doing something► here comes somebody/something► bring something home to somebody/come home to somebody► come to life/roar into life/splutter into life etc► somebody’s number comes up► come to a pretty/sorry pass► feel peculiar/come over all peculiar► when/if it comes to the point► come to a pretty pass► when/if push comes to shove► that’s rich (coming from him/you etc)► come out of something/come up smelling of roses► be coming up roses► come down on somebody like a ton of bricks► it will all come out in the wash► the wheels come off something► come within a whisker of (doing) something► go up/come down in the world► if the worst comes to the worst
1move towards somebody/something to move towards you or arrive at the place where you are OPP go: - As she reached the doors they came open, the button pressed by two people outside.
- His heart felt it would come loose in his body, so wildly was it beating.
- Some ropes had come loose and were swinging wildly in the wind.
- Then she felt something on her arm and discovered her scarf had come undone.
- Then sprinkle on water and re-trowel in come loose-use an emulsion paint brush.
- Think of all the things that come loose around the house.
- When the Thayer principalship came open in the summer of 1981, Littky applied and reentered the educational world.
- I came down on the side of tax reform.
- I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative.
- Sheer orders of magnitude matter, and the orders of magnitude do not come down on the side of the real-balance effect.
- We have to come down on the side of the snowy plover.
- But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue.
- Gladys Brown and her husband came to number ten quite a few years after we moved in.
- He and John, the Red Comyn, had come to blows before.
- If this was the end then she needed time to come to terms with it by herself.
- In the morning they travelled on until they came to a thick wood.
- She'd come to investigate the past, and discovered her own future instead.
- The way it came to me was just the way you wish everything comes to you.
- As I couldn't work out where they were coming from I ignored them.
- But all the intensity is coming from her.
- But I never expected the reaction it got coming from me.
- Coast Guard helicopters flying over the barge noticed an oil sheen coming from it, DeVillars said.
- Maybe these intimate stories, coming from some one she hardly knew, had overwhelmed her.
- That coming from him who would go sick with a bad back whenever a job tired him.
- That was rich coming from him!
- The little girl coming from her direction offers the other, much thinner one, a bowl filled with bread and fruit.
- Growing churches should seek to identify where their growth is coming from.
- I try to feel where he is coming from.
- It's great for keeping tabs on where your money is coming from and going to and for tracking investments.
- The ability to see where something is coming from and where it's going to.
- A force that comes and goes depending on your motion.
- As the New Year came and went, so did millions of resolutions to turn over a healthier leaf.
- Certainly the various court officials who came and went didn't seem interested.
- Generations of policemen have come and gone waiting for that mistake.
- He wore a pale green business shirt, and his shave was absolutely perfect, even as midafternoon came and went.
- Only this can explain to me why he comes and goes, comes and goes.
- The girl was a good worker who came and went quietly about her business.
- They each came and went as they pleased.
- Thompson came in for sharp criticism from women's groups.
- Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party.
- NTOs have come in for criticism for failing to make significant strides in plugging the skills gap.
- The Belfry came in for criticism with some newspapers saying it was no place to stage a match of this importance.
- The Court of Appeal has struggled to reconcile the two decisions but has come in for criticism.
- The patient's colour, face and body features as well as pulse and tongue will also come in for scrutiny.
- A tall figure came into view, then just as quickly vanished.
- As we drive on, the Willapa Hills of coastal Washington come into view.
- Soon Carol's home comes into view They're home!
- Southampton went wild when the Friendship came into view.
- The airfield came into view and Y positioned for the approach.
- The bell tower came into view, a square slim block of stone separated from the church by a dozen yards.
- The hills had now come into view, and I enjoyed the grand spectacle of Mount Blue ahead.
- They passed the copse and the lights of a large Elizabethan house came into view.
- In the garden of the little farm, fruit trees are coming into flower, and others are beginning to leaf.
- The cherry tree was coming into blossom, encouraged by the unseasonably warm sunshine.
- When planted through beds of hybrid tea or floribunda rosea they add interest before the roses come into flower.
- And material riches do not come into it.
- Besides, shagging had not come into it.
- His position did not come into it.
- Logic does not come into it at all.
- I'm not going to worry about it. I'll just take each day as it comes.
- I always think the best way of approaching an interview is to take it as it comes.
- If I were you, I'd just enjoy each day and take life as it comes.
- The only way to manage when you have small kids is to take things as they come.
- Ever since Cherith, I've vowed that I'd just take love as it comes - and as it goes.
- Just take it as it comes.
- So take it as it comes, for the moment.
- That was the only way to treat the war: take it as it comes.
- You can't change it, so you take it as it comes.
- This season Brooks has really come into his own as a goal scorer.
- But I did learn things about people and eventually came into my own socially.
- By the 1970s, Cheatham was starting to come into his own as a soloist.
- Generally people start to come into their own in their second season.
- Now the guides' training in jungle warfare came into its own.
- Research expanded; neural net-work terminology came into its own.
- The Safrane's hatchback format comes into its own when large objects need to be transported.
- The thesis comes into its own with respect to industrial policy where significant discontinuities in policy can be attributed to the government changing hands.
- Viridian and phthalocyanine green come into their own when a particularly transparent mid green is required.
- Although Vinny Samways has now come off the transfer list, Spurs look light in the key area.
- Closer Ugueth Urbina is coming off elbow surgery.
- Davis, coming off an all-pro year, wants to get as much money as he can.
- Dehere was also coming off a 1-for-14 performance against Boston in the previous game.
- Goering's second flight had also not come off.
- If it comes off once a season it is worth it.
- Look, after coming off tour I've just got no f-ing politics, religion, anything.
- Although Vinny Samways has now come off the transfer list, Spurs look light in the key area.
- Closer Ugueth Urbina is coming off elbow surgery.
- Davis, coming off an all-pro year, wants to get as much money as he can.
- Dehere was also coming off a 1-for-14 performance against Boston in the previous game.
- Goering's second flight had also not come off.
- If it comes off once a season it is worth it.
- Look, after coming off tour I've just got no f-ing politics, religion, anything.
- Although Vinny Samways has now come off the transfer list, Spurs look light in the key area.
- Closer Ugueth Urbina is coming off elbow surgery.
- Davis, coming off an all-pro year, wants to get as much money as he can.
- Dehere was also coming off a 1-for-14 performance against Boston in the previous game.
- Goering's second flight had also not come off.
- If it comes off once a season it is worth it.
- Look, after coming off tour I've just got no f-ing politics, religion, anything.
- Alec Davidson, for example, was one of those who came off worst.
- Bullock comes off best because her complaining seems so valid.
- His foster-child comes off best, but in addition each of two nurses receives a tenth of his estate.
- It may seem, so far, that in terms of clearly defined benefits, the client comes off best out of the deal.
- Prior to that Meath had come off best when they accounted for Down in the 1990 league decider.
- The lightning, it seemed to Lydia, had undoubtedly come off best in that encounter.
- The problem is that history sometimes comes off better.
- Oh, come off it, George. Sheila wouldn't do that.
- Come on! We're already late!
- Here boy, come on Pecos, good dog.
- Both Microsoft and Apple have big updates coming this year, and you can expect a proportionate dose of hype.
- He added that to be accurate, the aircraft would have to risk coming under fire.
- If you have children, you may have experienced them coming home from school and immediately throwing a tantrum in front of you.
- People have been coming in and milling around to see if we actually have it.
- Walter: I have people coming up to me all the time and people are friendly, I like that.
- We have a guest coming, tomorrow evening.
- We have recruits coming in all the time.
- A light suddenly comes on in the closet, revealing the hidden police officers Loach and Escobar.
- Automatic lights had come on in various parts of the house.
- It sometimes comes on in the open air.
- It sounded good, it felt good to say, it made lights come on in my mouth.
- Lights came on in the Mootwalk shops as one by one they began to open.
- Street lights were starting to come on in the distance, crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange.
- Suddenly, all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in.
- Sure, I said, come on over.
- But the defense came on strong in the playoffs.
- He'd come on strong towards the end of his round to pull up within a shot of us.
- The Republicans were coming on strong.
- Tell them you've come out in a rash, or something.
- He comes out of himself for a time and learns about love.
- Alice knew then that my father would haunt her for years to come.
- Even a couple of weeks down under will have you waltzing with Matilda for years to come.
- He spoke about that afternoon for days to come.
- It's the players who will suffer because of this, not just this week but for years to come.
- Mr Clark says his department will be collecting poll tax arrears for years to come.
- Prices then gave way to concern driving activity will be reduced for days to come.
- The responsibility was going to haunt him for years to come.
- We will be struggling with these issues for years to come.
- Also, the engineers with their bulldozers would come through and scrape it out.
- He writes every week and letters have been coming through.
- In the glimpses I had of her personal life, one feature always came through.
- It was about noon when I came through the trees out on to the shingle of the beach with the chapel.
- Part of that comes through design, by assembling the right mixture of players, and part of it comes through luck.
- The dean had a house and car, and had had a wife, until the papers finally came through.
- Tommy, as usual, is whispering to Nico hotly when I come through the reception room.
- Walker should come through it well enough.
- Be in no doubt that in years to come, this will become the greatest budget driver's car of them all.
- He is promised a great name in days to come.
- I think that in years to come they are bound to be looked back on as an aberration.
- Just think in years to come lots of people could be hunting.
- The combination could make him an even more formidable figure in years to come.
- The housing needs of the elderly, in particular, must be a prominent policy issue in years to come.
- There would be plenty of time for them in years to come, she thought wearily.
- To taxonomy, though, their essence lies in years to come.
- Conclusion With so many unanswered questions, it is an unwise man who comes to a conclusion.
- He has not yet come to a conclusion on that.
- He paused at a street corner and tried to come to a decision.
- In the restaurant he realized that he had come to a decision about things.
- Léonie stared at the two shops and came to a decision.
- She and o Pappous came to a decision.
- The Post Office says it hopes the two sides can come to an agreement at a branch meeting this evening.
- We had tea afterwards in a hotel in Berthing, but we failed to come to an agreement.
- Almost at once there was a slight crunch of gravel under wheels as a vehicle came to a halt.
- An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
- As it came to a stop, it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.
- He rose and led them both down the stone steps, coming to a halt at the entrance to the vestry door.
- The elevator rose smoothly, then came to a stop.
- The score indicates how far the ball bounces forward before it comes to a halt.
- The train lurches into movement, then, quickly, comes to a halt.
- But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue.
- Gladys Brown and her husband came to number ten quite a few years after we moved in.
- He and John, the Red Comyn, had come to blows before.
- If this was the end then she needed time to come to terms with it by herself.
- In the morning they travelled on until they came to a thick wood.
- She'd come to investigate the past, and discovered her own future instead.
- The way it came to me was just the way you wish everything comes to you.
- But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue.
- Gladys Brown and her husband came to number ten quite a few years after we moved in.
- He and John, the Red Comyn, had come to blows before.
- If this was the end then she needed time to come to terms with it by herself.
- In the morning they travelled on until they came to a thick wood.
- She'd come to investigate the past, and discovered her own future instead.
- The way it came to me was just the way you wish everything comes to you.
- But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue.
- Gladys Brown and her husband came to number ten quite a few years after we moved in.
- He and John, the Red Comyn, had come to blows before.
- If this was the end then she needed time to come to terms with it by herself.
- In the morning they travelled on until they came to a thick wood.
- She'd come to investigate the past, and discovered her own future instead.
- The way it came to me was just the way you wish everything comes to you.
- I can use a computer, but when it comes to repairing them I don't know a thing.
- When it comes to relationships, everyone makes mistakes.
- Again, when it comes to the selection process, the West Coast is not dealing from strength.
- And when it comes to makeup, do you think Cindy Crawford would actually lie?
- But when it comes to haute-cuisine, Charlie Nicholas knows where he stands.
- It is obvious that when it comes to representing his country, there is no one to equal Andre Agassi.
- Judges will normally interpret contracts strictly and will use certain principles when it comes to resolving inconsistencies and ambiguities.
- The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation.
- Trade is a sticking point, particularly when it comes to trucks.
- Yet diesel gets off easily when it comes to pollution controls.
- At a deeper level, however, the concept of the mentally abnormal female offender has come under scrutiny.
- He added that to be accurate, the aircraft would have to risk coming under fire.
- He said the company came under scrutiny along with other insurers after allegations were first made against Metropolitan Life in 1993.
- In addition to facing the ire of frustrated riders, Muni has also come under fire recently from federal safety officials.
- Patrick is generally regarded as having been an aggressive enforcer of civil-rights laws and often came under fire from conservatives.
- Police came under attack from bottles, bricks and plastic crates.
- Sir Derek came under fire from several shareholders.
- Their vehicle came under fire but was not hit.
- Computer technology has come a long way since the 1970s.
- Psychiatry has come a long way since the 1920s.
- Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information.
- There are still many gaps, but we have come a long way.
- They have come a long way, so they spend the first few hours greeting each other.
- We certainly have come a long way.
- We have come a long way since then, and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness.
- Alison's birthday is coming up.
- Don't forget you've got exams coming up in a couple of weeks' time.
- Don't forget you have a test coming up on Thursday.
- I'm pretty busy right now -- I have exams coming up next week.
- Our 12th annual Folk Festival is coming up again soon.
- With Christmas coming up, we didn't have much spare money.
- Evidently the emergency unit was coming up First, right at us.
- Gripping the over head chrome rail, he stooped forward as if to see what street was coming up.
- Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct.
- Some faces shone white in the moonlight that was coming up behind a copse.
- The sun was coming up as we drove away from Sobey's.
- The sun was coming up, or had already come up, and the heavy mists wore a pearlescent glow.
- The wind was coming up and there was weather to port. ` Sailing is the perfect antidote for age, Reyes.
- When I got out of prison again I went to a hostel in Manchester and he was coming up there all the time.
- BUndeterred, the group is revising its proposal and plans to contest every license that comes up for review.
- At each two-yearly election one-third of the Senate comes up for re-election.
- It affects us all and its practitioners do not come up for re-election every five years.
- And this might come as a surprise to our brethren in the popular national press - Thirty-eight.
- Buller's Hill House came as a surprise.
- Her answer came as a surprise.
- It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter.
- Nevertheless, he said the sharp drop in the book-to-bill came as a surprise.
- Nor should it come as a surprise that these rules frequently get S corporation owners into trouble.
- So it comes as a surprise to discover that this is not always the case.
- This should not come as a surprise to people who are free.
- A period when he was almost dead is coming up to the surface.
- He had a horrible premonition that she was coming up to Rome.
- Manion was coming up to his freeway exit.
- Acting has always come naturally to her.
- Change doesn't always come easily.
- For many of us, communicating openly and sympathetically does not come naturally.
- For many students, the decision to study science came naturally because of family interests.
- Realism, though humanly exacting, is technically what comes naturally.
- Swimming comes naturally to a fish.
- The role doesn't come naturally to either Bush or Gore.
- Though I hardly seemed qualified to write a book about a twenty-year marriage, the novel came easily.
- Whether you are graced appears to be at least partly a matter of temperament, Fowers notes: It comes naturally.
- You will probably find that this comes naturally and that you are happier and more confident than you thought you would be.
- Britain's adopted children had come of age.
- Could 1992 be the year when the environmental revolution really comes of age?
- Duroc had had to come of age and replace the older Duroc in the service of Nguyen Seth.
- His leap from collector to seller may be the surest sign yet that road-map collecting has come of age.
- However, you will come of age in two months.
- It must be child development with this goal: that every child be ready for school when that child comes of age.
- Morris came of age in the 1850s.
- And when you picked hold of the fish and got hold of a piece it would come clean away.
- He felt happy to finally be able to come clean about it, but he felt her withdraw.
- In addition, you risk being fired when you come clean, another attorney pointed out.
- Labour will not come clean with its figures, so it is bound to describe ours as jiggery-pokery.
- So when the station came clean, they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias.
- Still, I must come clean.
- That is all very well, but why does he not come clean and give us Labour's figures?
- That night, at dinner, David and I came clean, and told our friends about singing to fish.
- Andre's so in love he doesn't know whether he's coming or going.
- In both cases, prices came right back down within three months.
- It seemed clear Corbett wanted me to work at Salomon, but he never came right out and proposed.
- It will all come right, now that a different period of history has begun.
- More generally, the logistical strengths that the Dole campaign had counted on began to come good.
- Periodically, these letters come right out of the woodwork.
- Since I was the best spinner of my type in the world, eventually it would all come right.
- The light comes right through our curtains and makes sleeping difficult.
- The wasp took off as if in fright, but she came right back.
- And so it came to pass.
- But it's not really surprising that this accommodation should come to pass.
- It really did come to pass.
- It will come to pass, shortly I presume, that others will come forward to claim they wrote the book.
- None of this may come to pass, but all efforts to prevent it so far have backfired.
- Such regulations may someday come to pass, but perhaps not soon enough for the butternut.
- The odds on this coming to pass are daunting.
- Whatever the priestess at Delphi said would happen infallibly came to pass.
- "I didn't even eat lunch today." "Really? How come?"
- "She's moving to Alaska." "How come?"
- How come the sky is blue?
- How come Tyler's still here?
- How come you got back so early?
- And those bushy eyebrows that resembled dark clouds on his horizon.-How come?
- How come he's asked us to spend all this money and not them?
- How come I can't make her happy, how come she can't make me happy?
- How come Mrs Wall-Eye know my name?
- How come the vast majority of the population appears to want to play make-believe?
- How come you never asked me what happened?
- Joey, how come you never sweet-talk me in person?
- Hard Times, come again no more Sarah and Ward continued to look around as Charles sang.
- It had come again this night, glazing over the hills in the twilight.
- It has survived well in my cold garden, coming again from the base, even when cut down by severe weather.
- It may take many years, even a generation, for such an opportunity to come again.
- Omdurman and Mafeking had come again.
- She would not listen when he begged her not to let them come again.
- Sure enough, in a moment the rushes whispered, and the tiny drift of air came again.
- Then the three guys came again.
- Come, Sarah, don't cry.
- A 500 rouble note would come into circulation in the near future.
- But there was no light in the eyes of the girl that came home to me that night.
- I got into Edinburgh and before I came up I took a year off and worked and travelled.
- Something out there asking to come in?
- The answers come from a variety of professionals who deal with human development and sexuality.
- The owners say they came up with the idea first.
- Watching him, Riven felt the return of bonhomie and contemplated touching Madra's hair next time she came round.
- When the company came back inside, their mood was entirely changed.
- Because when he was coming along he was always getting me to tell him the story about you.
- He put his knuckles on the wet tile, went into a three-point stance to test how the arm was coming along.
- I noticed that a horse was coming along the road, so I supposed the animals were afraid of him.
- Let Hilda know if you are coming along.
- Some one was coming along the corridor from the foyer.
- We have Billy Reagan, too, who is coming along nicely.
- Yes, somebody was coming along the passage - a man.
- Your deck should be coming along nicely now, with the structure in place.
- But the highlight for me was a thumping take on a buzzer which came adrift after a couple of really powerful lunges.
- Shortly after this I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
- A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands.
- And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall?
- At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State.
- Here, Wade realized, he had come up against a few firm truths.
- In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.
- The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against.
- Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.
- What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees.
- Emma will inherit a fortune when she comes of age.
- In the 1940s, movies really came of age as a creative art form.
- Mozart's music came of age when the baroque style was at its height.
- They planned to marry as soon as she came of age.
- Britain's adopted children had come of age.
- Could 1992 be the year when the environmental revolution really comes of age?
- Duroc had had to come of age and replace the older Duroc in the service of Nguyen Seth.
- His leap from collector to seller may be the surest sign yet that road-map collecting has come of age.
- However, you will come of age in two months.
- It must be child development with this goal: that every child be ready for school when that child comes of age.
- Morris came of age in the 1850s.
- Cabral looks at the clay and her face comes alive as she begins to shape it.
- Hodges' stories make history come alive.
- The streets come alive after dark.
- And the defense came alive in the second half.
- As I began to research the background and archaeology of those places, the book came alive in a different way.
- By night, the Landing comes alive with jazz and the blues.
- For most people such details might be rather boring, but Robertson makes the narrative come alive through the personalities.
- In Great Groups, talent comes alive.
- Jane Austen's ironies came alive, and the ellipses in Virginia Woolf's prose started to speak.
- The walls come alive with foaming beer and music surrounds them as the audience journeys upward in a can of Guinness.
- There were voices outside as the train came alive.
- A Democratic Capitol Hill aide said it's too early to tell whether Congress will go along with the proposal.
- Gingrich listened carefully to the Tuesday Lunch Bunch, and sometimes came along to their meetings.
- If you would like to reassess your life and learn how to use stress to your advantage, come along.
- Other religious schools unwilling to go along with them should no longer expect state funding.
- Sam Fermoyle came along West Street.
- So I agreed to go along.
- The discussion groups were relatively open, and many people came along as friends of friends.
- Until Green Bay came along, either one of these two teams was going to win the Super Bowl.
- But every now and then, a bombshell comes along.
- Let Hilda know if you are coming along.
- Nevertheless, if we allow ourselves to be swayed by every fashion that comes along, we live in a perpetual muddle.
- Radiation, coming along shortly thereafter as a therapy method, reinforced this concept of cancer as a local body problem.
- Snake come along he bite you.
- They go to a place where they can be along and be able to find their soul.
- Until you came along, Century House was right out on a limb.
- You get these crackpot ideas about helping people who come along to you with a mournful tale.
- Depending on the circumstances, I was willing to go along.
- I went along the colonnade to the corner of the southern front of the house.
- In the best programs, 3-and 4-year-olds learn social skills, how to share and get along.
- Rashly volunteering to be a contestant, I went along the previous Saturday to practice.
- She said she does not get along well with her children and can not get them to clean.
- She wants to go along too.
- The countries in the region do not want Kosovo independence, and Washington appears to go along with that view.
- Why don't you ask Brenda and Belinda to come along to Friday meetings?
- A last round of the rooms wouldn't come amiss.
- A little humility in the medical debate would not go amiss.
- A little thank you to the Ombudsman would not go amiss. --------------------.
- A tankful of petrol wouldn't come amiss.
- Adding a few seconds to your dev.time to allow for the stop, etc. wouldn't go amiss.
- An apology wouldn't go amiss.
- In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss.
- This remained a most important consideration, but some relaxation of the original prohibition would not go amiss.
- Cuttings that should come to everybody's attention quickly can be pinned to the library noticeboard or contained in a monthly newsletter.
- I pay tribute to the fairness of the Home Office in dealing with the cases that have come to my attention.
- It's just come to my attention that he might have corresponded with Christabel LaMotte.
- Small strokes of frontal lobe seldom come to the attention of neurologists.
- Then it came to the attention of Edward Hooper, an unusually tenacious man.
- Unlike venereal disease, leprosy came to Western attention relatively late.
- We maintain a computerised database of potential acquirers against which we screen all opportunities that come to our attention.
- New democracies have come into being since the end of the Cold War.
- A change from Krankoor to Kranko came between the 1847 and 1848 volumes, soon after Theunis's death.
- A true cat always comes between you and your newspaper.
- He has come between us and ruined our lives.
- No time lag should come between demand and supply.
- The bulk of the decline in traditional families came between 1970 and 1980, with smaller decreases since then.
- The Voice had come between them.
- Westward the Hudson came between Sammler and the great Spry industries of New Jersey.
- Yet again the business of running the hotel had come between them when they had something important to sort out.
- He and John, the Red Comyn, had come to blows before.
- The effect was unnerving, and at first I thought the old men would come to blows.
- The two actors reputedly almost came to blows and ended the film not talking to each other.
- The two of them shouted at each other and until Daley stomped out, the secretaries feared they would come to blows.
- They came to blows in Jersey last weekend and Speedie was fined £50 in court.
- Two men had come to blows, an arm had been broken.
- We curse and leave the room or even come to blows.
- When Antony and Cleopatra come to blows, the scene explodes.
- After the experiments of the 1960s, education has come full circle in its methods of teaching reading.
- A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.
- Cross the Bahnhof bridge, and you will have come full circle back to the starting point.
- In a way, we've almost come full circle back to what I was trained to do, which is teaching.
- Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle.
- So we have come full circle.
- The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle.
- Thus the research has come full circle.
- Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.
- It's time the government came clean about its plans to raise income tax.
- The bank eventually came clean and admitted they had made a mistake.
- And when you picked hold of the fish and got hold of a piece it would come clean away.
- He felt happy to finally be able to come clean about it, but he felt her withdraw.
- In addition, you risk being fired when you come clean, another attorney pointed out.
- Labour will not come clean with its figures, so it is bound to describe ours as jiggery-pokery.
- So when the station came clean, they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias.
- Still, I must come clean.
- That is all very well, but why does he not come clean and give us Labour's figures?
- That night, at dinner, David and I came clean, and told our friends about singing to fish.
- A loose end, Kirov reminded himself as he came close to the man.
- A visit to the ancient ruins, especially on a quiet weekday, comes close to a religious experience.
- And this night, he comes close to getting seriously injured.
- Even La Scala, where an opening-night stall seat goes for £500, rarely comes close to breaking even.
- He can come close, perhaps, but the closer he comes, the greater the risk of slippage.
- Her horse came close and watched her.
- Later Mr O'Malley came close to confirming that his party would quit the coalition later this week.
- Miguel wanted to trust Firebug; he came close to letting everything spill out.
- The trial brought the issue of sexual harassment out of the closet.
- Once people decide to come out of the closet, it is pretty easy to do here.
- But 20 years have at least seen her interests come in from the cold.
- But we have come in from the cold to bring back a sneak preview.
- Never come in from the cold and toast by a hot fire.
- Timothy Cranmer did not come in from the cold, exactly.
- Voice over Another faithful sign that winter is truly upon us, is when wildlife comes in from the cold.
- Who exactly was coming in from the cold?
- They stay up and play cards till the cows come home.
- "What if they refuse?" "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
- A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune.
- Friends don't come back from the dead, Leila thought, rampaging through the corridor from the canteen.
- The single engine airplane business came back from the dead after the General Aviation Revitalization Act made it harder to sue.
- When Cardiff had come back from the dead, he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer.
- But winning a honeymoon just months before your wedding is a dream come true.
- For him, being aboard the raft was a dream come true.
- For Ruth it will be a dream come true as she becomes the youngest female licensed amateur rider in history.
- It really is a dream come true.
- It would be a dream come true to be able to observe my favourite species in a more natural situation.
- That would be a dream come true, but everybody around the country wants to win it.
- Winning a number was a dream come true for Deborah Fullford of Cambridge, the final Massachusetts woman selected.
- Adai can come back to Earth after Gog is dead - after I am dead, perhaps.
- AIr travellers came down to earth with a bump yesterday when they joined in some charity aerobics.
- In Karuzi you quickly come down to earth.
- Maybe, but the once pricey products that use this satellite technology have come down to earth.
- Peter Lilley came down to earth.
- They recently have come down to Earth.
- Campbell came under fire for his handling of the negotiations.
- Grain-based cereal prices already have come under fire from Capitol Hill, with a report in mid-March by Reps.
- He added that to be accurate, the aircraft would have to risk coming under fire.
- He, in turn, came under fire from conservative Republicans in his home state.
- Its stance has come under fire from the president of the private sector's wood alliance, Corma.
- Peacekeeping forces came under fire in isolated incidents.
- Sir Derek came under fire from several shareholders.
- The service came under fire as scores of roads across the province were clogged with snow, snarling traffic and causing chaos.
- When crop-dusters come under fire, it is up to DynCorp helicopter pilots to provide support.
- Alma's family will always come first with her.
- For me, over the years, work came first, family came second.
- The rains came first, then the storms.
- And, like most important values, it came first from my family and was reinforced by good teachers.
- Angie Costello came first to mind, a bright lipsticked smile above a striped blue apron.
- But Rosie had come first, and real people mattered more than fantasies.
- Culture in Berlin came first through state institutions, and developed very late and all at once.
- I came first to the Flat Garden, with its bonsai azaleas, temple statuary, and a stunning view of Portland.
- The theory always came first, put forward from the desire to have an elegant and consistent mathematical model.
- This is where all bad accidents come first and have their clothes removed and first transfusions.
- Which came first, the decline in public interest or the decline in political news?
- A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.
- Now his fortunes are poised to turn full circle again.
- Now the pattern has turned full circle.
- Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle.
- The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle.
- The wheel has turned full circle in the past 25 years.
- Thus the research has come full circle.
- Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.
- But, as the saying goes, what goes around comes around.
- Neil Young's annual fall concert always delivers the goods with famous musicians and good music.
- But out of sight at the other end of the course, Mr Hill had also come to grief.
- Far from remaining a hero, he came to grief.
- She'd come to grief acting like that, but not from him.
- The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief, and it is not altogether surprising that it does.
- Then might not the rotting stump of the tree split under their weight and they come to grief?
- This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence.
- When it comes to that interesting pastime, most members of most species come to grief.
- At that time, she was still coming to grips with her unexpected plunge into social activism.
- BInstitutions are just now coming to grips with the consequences.
- In my view this is an evasion of the teacher's duty to enable pupils to get to grips with academic language.
- Neither Jantzen nor McFague really gets to grips with the philosophical issues involved.
- Now he's getting to grips with his injuries.
- The whole program works very well, I still seem to have problems in getting to grips with some areas.
- Tutorials on disk are the latest way to get to grips with problem areas.
- We are still trying to come to grips with the problems identified by the Romantics.
- A collection of prints and paintings by Picasso came under the hammer at Sotheby's yesterday.
- Three Renoir paintings will come under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.
- As for football, it also came under the hammer for the usual reasons.
- Hundreds of items go under the hammer to save a medieval manor.
- In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction.
- It was part of the contents of a unique toy museum in Buckinghamshire most of which came under the hammer today.
- Read in studio A collection of battered old toys has come under the hammer at an auction today.
- So that and nearly 500 other lots will go under the hammer at Sotherbys tomorrow.
- The rest of his collection is going under the hammer.
- They will go under the hammer at the London auctioneers Spink on 17 May.
- And any missile that came to hand.
- Departmental staff are encouraged to share information as recorded, and other information as it comes to hand.
- Harrison, ever practical and resourceful, took what materials came to hand, and handled them well.
- No suitable material came to hand for the box hedges.
- The first item that came to hand was the flower.
- Then they replaced the nonfiction temporarily, as the volumes came to hand, and started on the second half.
- Until today, that was, when suddenly two very different pieces of information had come to hand.
- You're trying for something that's funky, something that sounds good, and you just grab whatever comes to hand.
- Fortunately, none of the hostages came to any serious harm.
- I'm sure Craig's old enough to catch a train into town without coming to any harm.
- If you keep quiet, you'll come to no harm.
- He had it coming, and I did him in.
- Put like that and you might think they had it coming.
- That pair obviously just had it coming.
- The situation came to a head when the workers went out on strike.
- Despite these embassy warnings matters seemed in danger of coming to a head early in 1951.
- Frictions between the Truman administration and MacArthur on the conduct of the war came to a head in April 1951.
- It all came to a head a couple weekends back.
- It was a struggle which came to a head in the reign of Edward the Confessor, which began in 1042.
- Matters finally came to a head about six weeks ago when my wife and I went out to dinner with another couple.
- That part of the debate should come to a head in December, when commissioners are scheduled to formally approve the projects.
- They came to a head in 1562 at the Council of Trent, reconvened after a ten-year break.
- Yet, even as this crisis came to a head, the bishops remained unrepentant.
- During their bizarre courtship she was his willing puppy who came to heel when he whistled.
- Sometimes they succeed in pressuring others to come to heel.
- Come hell or high water, he'd never missed a race and he wasn't going to miss this one.
- I'll be there in time. Don't worry. Come hell or high water.
- I said I'd do it, so I will, come hell or high water.
- My father felt I should stay in my marriage come hell or high water.
- She'd come this far to say her piece and say it she would, come hell or high water.
- It comes hot on the heels of the C5 saloon we showed you last week.
- How come he's asked us to spend all this money and not them?
- How come I can't make her happy, how come she can't make me happy?
- How come Mrs Wall-Eye know my name?
- How come the vast majority of the population appears to want to play make-believe?
- How come you never asked me what happened?
- Joey, how come you never sweet-talk me in person?
- As you are risen, it is new kingdom come. 17.
- He heard Barnabas hit the study floor running, scattering a braided rug to kingdom come.
- He nearly blew us all to kingdom come once ...
- His movements came within inches of blowing them all to kingdom come.
- The people in the kingdom came to love Aladdin, and the sultan made him a captain in the army.
- The truck was blown to kingdom come.
- Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
- Ya do one fucken thing wrong in yur whole goddamn life an ya got ta pay fer it till kingdom come!
- It eventually came to light that the CIA had information about a security problem.
- But as Judge Priore's investigation continues, more mysteries come to light.
- Few such blemishes, given the secrecy of organizational practice, came to light.
- However, very interesting dynamics regarding the competition and market structure are coming to light.
- It is a complete mystery to everyone how the following gems came to light in 1989.
- The debate might have been clarified by study of the relevant Sanskrit texts: but these came to light only slowly.
- The problem came to light when an ambulance was delayed attending an emergency at Harwood-in-Teesdale, just before Christmas.
- The relationship came to light when a mysterious note was handed to a barrister at an earlier hearing.
- This came to light in the present century during widening and repair operations.
- All of this comes to mind because of the movies.
- As I thought about this, two questions kept coming to mind.
- Dell and Elonex immediately spring to mind.
- Faded was the word that sprang to mind - everything had a rather tired quality about it.
- He waited for something to come to mind.
- Multiple calamities had come to mind.
- Three possible explanations come to mind.
- Bankside activity has reached such a pitch, even at night, that the carp will not come near the margins.
- Her fiance, the man who was supposed to love her, had not come near her since her father's death.
- My wife would not come near me.
- But it had come to nothing, and in the process he had recognised the truth behind his motives.
- Crack addicts, criminals, people whose lives have come to nothing.
- Even Sam Smith's valiant attempts to reduce the deficit came to nothing.
- If this was the intention it came to nothing, for the title was abolished in 1554.
- Plots to dispose of him came to nothing.
- Sadly it has come to nothing.
- Speculation that the deputy chairman, Lord Barnett, might also be removed came to nothing.
- Without action your job hunting will come to nothing.
- A seventy million pounds engine plant came on stream three years ago producing engines for Rover.
- Norton believes privatisation of electricity and water companies means more funds will come on stream.
- The Lomond platform is due to come on stream in April.
- The plant is scheduled to come on stream in the spring of 1992.
- They will be concentrated in the same industries and come on stream as the economy is beginning its recovery from the depression.
- Those two plants came on stream at a time when we needed all the capacity they could provide.
- Two years later, the new developments are on stream, bringing the target of 400 job opportunities even closer.
- With more and more reactors coming on stream every year, it was inevitable that problems would begin to occur.
- And so it came to pass.
- But it's not really surprising that this accommodation should come to pass.
- It really did come to pass.
- It will come to pass, shortly I presume, that others will come forward to claim they wrote the book.
- None of this may come to pass, but all efforts to prevent it so far have backfired.
- Such regulations may someday come to pass, but perhaps not soon enough for the butternut.
- The odds on this coming to pass are daunting.
- Whatever the priestess at Delphi said would happen infallibly came to pass.
- Job opportunities like this don't come down the pike that often.
- Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike?
- Burrow runs two miles, rain or shine, everyday.
- Every morning at about 5am, come rain or shine, James Zarei leaves his South Croydon home on his morning run.
- He seldom drinks alcohol, never touches drugs, and runs six miles every morning, rain or shine.
- I kid you not: each year rain or shine, Californian Poppy.
- Scores of rambling and cycling clubs headed remorselessly for the Dales each weekend, come rain or shine.
- The working week began every Monday, rain or shine.
- Alberto has come to the rescue with One Step, a great new two-in-one shampoo and conditioner.
- And I could see no more, until the cavalry came to the rescue.
- But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue.
- But once again ingenuity came to the rescue.
- In theory, the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue.
- Once again, Ashputtel sang her song for the birds; once again they came to her rescue.
- The designer from Mark Wilkinson, Debbie Weston, came to the rescue and suggested custom-painted ones.
- The thirty-day rule comes to the rescue for thirty days.
- Lynn's eyes came to rest on a framed picture on the bookshelf.
- The plane skidded along the runway and came to rest in a cornfield.
- A curlew called out as it rose above the waters, then came to rest alongside its mate among the rushes.
- Ahab abandons his watch and walks about the deck finally coming to rest against the rail.
- Finally the raft came to rest, sitting just below the tideline.
- From time to time she would glance back into the room, her eyes coming to rest on the casually seated figure of Tsu Ma.
- His second shot came to rest in a greenside bunker.
- Meanwhile, we spun out and came to rest with the car still running.
- She woke slowly from a vague dream as an errant breeze drifted over her face, coming to rest on her mouth.
- Those which happen to come to rest in a non-absorbing direction will absorb no more photons, and will thereafter stay put.
- I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd go along for the ride.
- But do members just go along for the ride?
- His pride would never let Olajuwon simply go along for the ride.
- I was wondering if you fancied coming along for the ride.
- I went along for the ride.
- Lord knows where they're heading, but you really should go along for the ride.
- Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride.
- Other major players in the Las Vegas casino market came along for the ride.
- The dancers were flown to Washington, with Talley Beatty going along for the ride.
- Their extravagant overspending has come home to roost.
- Eventually, of course, the chickens came home to roost.
- When Bob Dylan calls, musicians come running.
- At once there came running to her from all directions a pack of great wolves.
- Fellers come running, bobbies come running and it was a right old dust-up.
- In under two minutes she came running in with her clothes.
- Setting priorities Land economists questioned whether developers would come running if the city built a canal.
- She came running up to the van and climbed in beside him.
- She had contrarily thought that if he really cared he would have come running after her.
- The villagers came running, naturally, but there were no wolves.
- Then he loped away as a hound came running silently through the trees, nose to the ground, scenting slowly.
- And even if it is not significant, it has the potential to be so-which amounts to the same thing.
- And literature will amount to the same thing: all writers are copycats.
- At once she thought: I could have taken two thousand, three - it would come to the same thing.
- Or rather, politics and morality come to the same thing.
- Or they act as if they do, which comes to the same thing.
- Since it formed a halo over the puck, did that amount to the same thing?
- The public purse would not get anything; after all, it all comes to the same thing.
- When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing.
- By then, there was a boyfriend on the scene.
- All this quickness of mind, all her decisiveness had turned to mush when Mac came on the scene.
- But we must keep in mind that millions of species arose and disappeared long before mankind came on the scene.
- By then, Wife Number Five had come on the scene.
- Etty with her friend Dolly Murchie, had come on the scene.
- I try to explain that Charles was only four when I came on the scene.
- No doubt when the subsidy commissioners came on the scene they were prevailed on to restore assessments to approximately the levels of 1515.
- That is where the plugger and press officer come on the scene.
- The country's whole economy is coming apart at the seams.
- Everyone had seen the layoffs coming, but nobody could do anything to stop them.
- Jason saw the stock market crash coming and sold most of his shares.
- Then one day she just walked out -- I suppose I should have seen it coming really.
- Beyond him, I could see the camp coming alive.
- Birds, like planes, usually face into the wind, so they do not see the plane coming.
- He looked up to see Norm coming down the driveway.
- One of the man-things had seen them coming and shouted a warning.
- Sarah Fleming saw them coming through the window of the front room.
- She saw him coming and intended to give him a wide berth.
- That Salvor Hardin had seen it coming made it none the more pleasant.
- We were heading for the landing zone and could even see a chopper coming toward us.
- We've been to the state tournament four times, but we've come up short every time.
- He struck the ball tentatively, and it came up short.
- I went home, wanting to do something very special, but came up short.
- If we keep coming up short, tax the Patagonians.
- Judged by their own standards, they came up short.
- Kansas played well for 38 minutes but came up short in the end.
- Riley keeps coming up short, but insists on coming right back to pound the same hammer with the same nail.
- This analysis often reveals why some groups regularly succeed and others regularly come up short.
- We're so close to getting the job done, but we keep coming up short.
- We stood at the window until their car came into sight.
- After a moment they came into sight.
- But they instantly look the other way when he and his motorcade come into sight.
- But when the lane curved, a tavern came into sight and she went in.
- He'd have plenty of time to drive down when the target vehicle came into sight.
- He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road.
- The camp came into sight at the bottom of the road.
- The carob came into sight below.
- I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends.
- A limousine carrying Harris and several other black passengers jerked to a stop.
- An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
- And moments later he comes to a stop.
- As it came to a stop, it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.
- He had given no sign of injury until we came to a stop.
- It swerved wildly towards the wall, bounced over the pavement and came to a stop four feet from the concrete wall.
- Once it has been consumed, the Darwinian machine comes to a stop.
- When it jerked to a stop they were led out into a narrow carpeted passage.
- The elevator finally came to a stop at the 56th floor.
- An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
- As it came to a stop, it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.
- He had given no sign of injury until we came to a stop.
- His looking finally came to a stop at the Big Nurse.
- Lacuna came to a stop behind her, and pulled her gently into an embrace that for once was nothing but tender.
- The elevator rose smoothly, then came to a stop.
- We came to a stop outside my bedroom door and he made a lurching movement.
- With a triumphant belch, the train came to a stop and soon from a first-class carriage the beloved figure emerged.
- The new plant will come on stream at the end of the year.
- A seventy million pounds engine plant came on stream three years ago producing engines for Rover.
- If successful, the trust will come on stream in April, 1993.
- No new cases would come on stream for us to deal with.
- Norton believes privatisation of electricity and water companies means more funds will come on stream.
- The Lomond platform is due to come on stream in April.
- The plant is scheduled to come on stream in the spring of 1992.
- They will be concentrated in the same industries and come on stream as the economy is beginning its recovery from the depression.
- With more and more reactors coming on stream every year, it was inevitable that problems would begin to occur.
- It took years for Rob to come to terms with his mother's death.
- An individual's sexuality is their own affair and they will come to terms with it when they are ready to.
- Four died in hospital and Emma Hartley, one of the survivors, was trying to come to terms with that.
- He sat at the window, staring out into the night trying to come to terms with the anger that overwhelmed him.
- I had to come to terms with that.
- It helps the young reader to come to terms with his or her own non-rational, unconscious-dominated behaviour.
- Only by finding each other again can they hope to come to terms with their tragedy.
- Refusing to come to terms with reality harms us and, incidentally, deceives no one else for long.
- They've been trying to come to terms with what's happened ever since.
- I expected the criticism it comes with the territory when you're a public figure.
- As economies mature, they say, economic slowdown comes with the territory.
- Dealing with the guest who is in a delicate business situation or just a very bad mood all goes with the territory.
- Death always went with the territory.
- Human rights abuses go with the territory.
- Most of us have been doing this for a long time, and it goes with the territory.
- She just said she felt it went with the territory.
- Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory.
- The strain, the negativity, the isolation all came with the territory.
- But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John.
- Come to think of it, Columbia wouldn't have been around if it hadn't been for the blues.
- Come to think of it, even Hillary Rodham Clinton could learn something from Alexander about how to invest her money.
- Come to think of it, he'd seemed rather a decent chap, some one it might be worth getting to know.
- Come to think of it, they might want to hang on to those packing crates.
- So did Mom, come to think of it.
- You never know, come to think of it.
- If they think it's going to be an easy game, they've got another think coming!
- In a survey of customer preference, one model came consistently out on top.
- In all action movies, the hero always comes out on top.
- Usually the team with the most talent comes out on top.
- Anthony Courtney's warnings welled up again, coupled with a new determination to come out on top.
- Both individuals should feel they come out on top.
- But Tsongas turned those views around when he came out on top, beating rival Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.
- But WindowWorks comes out on top.
- The hero or heroine must ultimately come out on top.
- While Gladiator came out on top, the contest was far from a shoo-in.
- Yet, if they are in one, most men want to come out on top.
- You could sum up the event by saying a batch of first-time nominees came out on top this year.
- After 21 years, Carl's dream of owning a home came true.
- Patterson's dream came true when he won the Boston marathon on his first attempt.
- People say that if you make a wish at the top of the hill, it always comes true.
- And in no time at all, they see their dreams come true.
- But it is not a dream that is likely to come true, though perhaps not for the obvious reason.
- Ideas become a bit confused by the fact they feel a dream has come true.
- She was glad to see such a love story come true before her eyes.
- She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true.
- This is the land where dreams come true if you really, honestly want them to.
- This was a dream that came true.
- We thought maybe our worst nightmare came true.
- And a dream come true ... The advert for grandparents that came up trumps.
- Conrad Allen came up trumps again, finishing fourth in the boys 800 metres in a personal best 2 mins. 22.
- Ibanez seem to have taken another daring step in their continuing success story and come up trumps once again.
- In part two: Four of a kind ... Durnin plays the winning hand as United come up trumps against Luton.
- You've come up trumps, Derek.
- Soon her marriage came tumbling down.
- And the marriage comes tumbling down as Roth, like a Roth hero, demands to become unbound from marital ties.
- Another set of walls comes tumbling down.
- As the Holy Spirit filled me, the barriers came tumbling down.
- He watched a huge white mountain collapse and come tumbling down on him.
- One wrong move, we realized with horror, and the doors could come tumbling down.
- The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union.
- Then the stage came tumbling down.
- There is a loud clatter as a stack of circuit boards comes tumbling down.
- A whole range of behaviour is subsumed under the umbrella of bureaucratic self-interest.
- Finally, war served to bring all members of a society, soldier and civilian, under the umbrella of national consciousness.
- Governments also use the more industrially orientated labs under the umbrella of the Fraunhofer society.
- If someone talked to me like that, I would just come unglued.
- When his parents got divorced, his whole world came unglued.
- Robbins, whose analogies tend strongly toward food, explained what happens when something comes unglued.
- What on earth was it about him that he could make her come unglued with just a single look?
- You can turn the Mustang into any bend at any speed and it won't ever come unglued.
- Another day we nearly came unstuck altogether.
- Because many skiers rely on skidding, they come unstuck in deep snow.
- Billy says that he first came unstuck in time in 1944, long before his trip to Tralfamadore.
- But even that achievement is now in danger of coming unstuck, as Larry Elliott points out on page 12.
- He told about having come unstuck in time.
- The layers of secrecy have come unstuck with time.
- This week, however, they came unstuck.
- Where I really came unstuck arguing with von Kranksch was on the subject of crystals.
- Tanning beds came into use around 1979.
- Doors were fitted and it came into use on 7 September.
- Doubtless, this instability will continue as more sophisticated techniques of diagnosis come into use by the medical profession.
- It came into use around the turn of the century.
- The new register comes into use the following February.
- The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use.
- There were many different drugs coming into use.
- Various kinds of minuscule came into use, such as the humanistic and the Carolingian.
- She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs, only to come up against a wall.
- We're determined to take every opportunity that comes our way.
- We were in a couple of games that went right down to the wire.
- In the event the starting line-up went down to the wire.
- It is down to the wire.
- Creativity was coming out of the woodwork.
- There are wallabies crawling out of the woodwork.
- He gave her a child every year, but was never there when it came into the world.
- He looked as if he came into the world fighting.
- Alec Davidson, for example, was one of those who came off worst.
Let me know when they come. Can you come here for a minute? Come a bit closer and you’ll be able to see better. What time will you be coming home?come in/into/out of etc There was a knock on the door and a young woman came into the room.come to/towards I could see a figure coming towards me.come across/down/up etc As they came down the track, the car skidded.come to do something I’ve come to see Philip.come and do something I’ll come and help you move the rest of the boxes. Come and look at this!come running/flying/speeding etc Jess came flying round the corner and banged straight into me.come to dinner/lunch What day are your folks coming to dinner?here comes somebody/something spoken (=used to say that someone or something is coming towards you) Ah, here comes the bus at last!► see thesaurus at arrive2go with somebody if someone comes with you, they go to a place with you: We’re going for a drink this evening. Would you like to come?come with I asked Rosie if she’d like to come with us.come along It should be good fun. Why don’t you come along?3travel to a place to travel to or reach a place: Which way did you come?come through/across/by way of etc They came over the mountains in the north.come from Legend has it that the tribe came from across the Pacific Ocean.come by car/train/bus etc Will you be coming by train? Have you come far (=travelled a long way) today? I’ve come a long way to see you.come 50/100 etc miles/kilometres Some of the birds have come thousands of miles to winter here.4post if a letter etc comes, it is delivered to you by post SYN arrive: A letter came for you this morning. The phone bill hasn’t come yet.5happen if a time or an event comes, it arrives or happens: At last the day came for us to set off. The moment had come for me to break the news to her. The time will come when you’ll thank me for this. Christmas seems to come earlier every year.be/have yet to come (=used when something has not happened yet but will happen) The most exciting part is yet to come. I knew he’d be able to take care of himself, come what may (=whatever happens).6reach a level/place [always + adverb/preposition] to reach a particular level or placecome up/down She had blonde hair which came down to her waist. The water came up as far as my chest.7be produced/sold [always + adverb/preposition] to be produced or sold with particular featurescome in This particular sofa comes in four different colours. Cats come in many shapes and sizes.come with The computer comes complete with software and games.8order [always + adverb/preposition] to be in a particular position in an order, a series, or a listcome before/after P comes before Q in the alphabet.come first/second etc She came first in the 200 metres.9come open/undone/loose etc to become open etc: His shoelace had come undone. The rope came loose.10come to do something a)to begin to have a feeling or opinion: He came to think of Italy as his home. I came to believe that he was innocent after all. b)to do something by chance, without planning or intending to do it: Can you tell me how the body came to be discovered?come to be doing something I often wondered how I came to be living in such a place.11come and go a)to be allowed to go into and leave a place whenever you want: The students can come and go as they please. b)to keep starting and stopping: The pain comes and goes.12take something as it comes to accept something as it happens, without trying to plan for it or change it: We just take each year as it comes. He takes life as it comes.13have something coming (to you) informal to deserve to be punished or to have something bad happen to you: I do feel sorry for him, but I’m afraid he had it coming.14as nice/as stupid etc as they come informal extremely nice, stupid etc: My uncle Walter is as obstinate as they come.15for years/weeks/days etc to come used to emphasize that something will continue for a long time into the future: This is a moment that will be remembered and celebrated for years to come.16in years/days to come in the future: In years to come, some of the practices we take for granted now will seem quite barbaric.17have come a long way to have made a lot of progress: Computer technology has come a long way since the 1970s.18come as a surprise/relief/blow etc (to somebody) to make someone feel surprised, relieved, disappointed etc: The decision came as a great relief to us all. The news will come as no surprise to his colleagues.19come easily/naturally (to somebody) to be easy for someone to do: Public speaking does not come easily to most people. Writing came naturally to her, even as a child.20come of age a)to reach the age when you are legally considered to be an adult: He’ll inherit the money when he comes of age. b)to develop into an advanced or successful form: Space technology didn’t really come of age until the 1950s.21come right out with something/come right out and say something informal to say something in a very direct way, often when other people think this is surprising: You came right out and told him? I don’t know how you dared!22come clean informal to tell the truth about something you have donecome about I think you should come clean about where you were last night.23not know whether you are coming or going informal to feel very confused because a lot of different things are happening: I don’t know whether I’m coming or going this week.24come good/right British English informal to end well, after there have been a lot of problems: Don’t worry, it’ll all come right in the end.25come to pass literary to happen after a period of time: It came to pass that they had a son.26sex informal to have an orgasmSPOKEN PHRASES27come in! used to tell someone who has knocked on your door to enter your room, house etc: She tapped timidly on the door. ‘Come in!’ boomed a deep voice from inside.28how come? used to ask someone why or how something happened: How come you’ve ended up here? ‘Last I heard, she was teaching in Mexico.’ ‘How come?’29come to think of it/come to that used to add something that you have just realized or remembered: Come to think of it, George did seem a bit depressed yesterday. He had never expected to have a wife, or even a girlfriend come to that.30come July/next year/the next day etc used to talk about a particular time in the future: Come spring, you’ll have plenty of colour in the garden.31come again? used to ask someone to repeat what they have just said32don’t come the innocent/victim/helpless male etc with me British English used to tell someone not to pretend that they are something they are not in order to get sympathy or help from you: Don’t come the poor struggling artist with me. You’re just lazy!33come (now) old-fashioned used to comfort or gently encourage someone34come, come/come now old-fashioned used to tell someone that you do not accept what they are saying or doingcome about phrasal verb1to happen, especially in a way that is not planned: The opportunity to get into computing came about quite by accident. How did this situation come about?2if a ship comes about, it changes directioncome across phrasal verb1come across somebody/something to meet, find, or discover someone or something by chance: I came across an old diary in her desk. I’ve never come across anyone quite like her before. We’ve come across a few problems that need resolving.RegisterIn written English, people often use encounter when writing about problems or difficulties because this sounds more formal than come across:· The team of researchers had encountered similar problems before.2if an idea comes across well, it is easy for people to understand: Your point really came across at the meeting.3if someone comes across in a particular way, they seem to have particular qualities SYN come overcome across as He comes across as a very intelligent sensitive man. She sometimes comes across as being rather arrogant. I don’t think I came across very well (=seemed to have good qualities) in the interview.come across with something phrasal verb to provide money or information when it is needed: I hoped he might come across with a few facts.come after somebody phrasal verb to look for someone in order to hurt them, punish them, or get something from them: She was terrified that Trevor would come after her.come along phrasal verb1be coming along informal to be developing or making progress SYN progress: He opened the oven door to see how the food was coming along. Your English is coming along really well.2to appear or arrive: A bus should come along any minute now. Take any job opportunity that comes along.3a)to go to a place with someone: We’re going into town – do you want to come along? b)to go somewhere after someone: You go on ahead – I’ll come along later.4come along! a)used to tell someone to hurry up SYN come on: Come along! We’re all waiting for you! b)used to encourage someone to try harder SYN come on: Come along! Don’t give up yet!come apart phrasal verb1to split or fall into pieces: I picked the magazine up and it came apart in my hands.2to begin to fail: The whole basis of the agreement was coming apart. She felt as if her life was coming apart at the seams (=failing completely).come around phrasal verb1 (also come round British English) to come to someone’s home or the place where they work in order to visit them SYN come over: I’ll come around later and see how you are. Why don’t you come round for lunch?2 (also come round British English) to change your opinion so that you now agree with someone or are no longer angry with themcome around to It took him a while to come around to the idea. Don’t worry – she’ll come round eventually.3 (also come round British English) if a regular event comes around, it happens as usual: By the time the summer came around, Kelly was feeling much better.4American English to become conscious again after you have been unconscious SYN come round British English: When she came around her mother was sitting by her bed.come around from You might feel a little sick when you come around from the anesthetic.come at somebody/something phrasal verb1to move towards someone in a threatening way: Suddenly, he came at me with a knife.2if images, questions, facts etc come at you, you feel confused because there are too many of them at the same time: Questions were coming at me from all directions.3informal to consider or deal with a problem in a particular way SYN approach: We need to come at the problem from a different angle.come away phrasal verb1to become separated from the main part of something SYN come off: One of the wires in the plug had come away. I turned some of the pages and they came away in my hand.2to leave a place with a particular feeling or idea: We came away thinking that we had done quite well.come away with I came away with the impression that the school was very well run.come back phrasal verb1to return to a particular place or person SYN return: My mother was scared that if I left home I’d never come back. Ginny’s left me, and there’s nothing I can do to persuade her to come back.2to become fashionable or popular again: Who’d have thought hippy gear would ever come back! High heels are coming back into fashion.3to appear or start to affect someone or something again SYN return: The pain in her arm came back again. It took a while for my confidence to come back.4if something comes back to you, you remember it or remember how to do it: As I walked the city streets, the memories came flooding back.come back to I can’t think of her name at the moment, but it’ll come back to me.5to reply to someone quickly, often in an angry or unkind waycome back at He came back at me immediately, accusing me of being a liar.come before somebody/something phrasal verb formal to be brought to someone in authority, especially a judge in a law court, to be judged or discussed by them: When you come before the judge, it’s best to tell the truth. The case will come before the courts next month.come between somebody phrasal verb1to make people argue and feel angry with each other, when they had been friends before: Nothing will ever come between us now. I didn’t want to come between a husband and wife.2to prevent someone from giving enough attention to something: She never let anything come between her and her work.come by phrasal verb1 come by something to manage to get something that is rare or difficult to get: How did you come by these pictures? Jobs were hard to come by.2come by (something) to make a short visit to a place on your way to somewhere else: He said he’d come by later. I’ll come by the house and get my stuff later, OK?come down phrasal verb1 a)if a price, level etc comes down, it gets lower: It looks as if interest rates will come down again this month. b)to accept a lower pricecome down to He’s asking £5,000, but he may be willing to come down to £4,800.2if someone comes down to a place, they travel south to the place where you are: Why don’t you come down for the weekend sometime?come down to Are you coming down to Knoxville for Christmas?3to fall to the ground: A lot of trees came down in the storm. We were still out in the fields when the rain started coming down.4come down on the side of somebody/something (also come down in favour of somebody/something) to decide to support someone or something: The committee came down in favour of making the information public.5informal to start to feel normal again after you have been feeling very happy and excited: He was on a real high all last week and he’s only just come down.6 informal to stop feeling the effects of a strong drug: When I came down, I remembered with horror some of the things I’d said.7 British English old-fashioned to leave a university after completing a period of studycome down on somebody phrasal verb to punish someone or criticize them severely: We need to come down hard on young offenders. I made the mistake of answering back, and she came down on me like a ton of bricks (=very severely).come down to somebody/something phrasal verb1if a complicated situation or problem comes down to something, that is the single most important thing: It all comes down to money in the end.2if something old has come down to you, it has been passed between people over a long period of time until you have it: The text which has come down to us is only a fragment of the original.come down with something phrasal verb to get an illness: I think I’m coming down with a cold.come for somebody/something phrasal verb1to arrive to collect someone or something: I’ll come for you at about eight o'clock.2to arrive at a place in order to take someone away by force: Members of the secret police came for him in the middle of the night.come forward phrasal verb to offer help to someone, or offer to do something: So far, only one candidate has come forward. The police appealed for witnesses to come forward with information.come from somebody/something phrasal verb1if you come from a place, you were born there or lived there when you were young: I come from London originally.2to be obtained from a place, thing, or person, or to start or be made somewhere: A lot of drugs come from quite common plants. My information comes from a very reputable source. The idea came from America.3to happen as the result of doing somethingcome from doing something Most of her problems come from expecting too much of people.4coming from him/her/you etc spoken used to say that someone should not criticize another person for doing something, because they have done the same thing themselves: You think I’m too selfish? That’s rich coming from you!5where somebody is coming from informal the basic attitude or opinion someone has, which influences what they think, say, or do: I see where you’re coming from now.come in phrasal verb1if a train, bus, plane, or ship comes in, it arrives at a place: What time does your train come in?come in to We come in to Heathrow at nine in the morning.2if money or information comes in, you receive it: Reports are coming in of a massive earthquake in Mexico. We haven’t got enough money coming in.3to be involved in a plan, deal etc: We need some financial advice – that’s where Kate comes in.come in on You had the chance to come in on the deal.4to join in a conversation or discussion: Can I come in here and add something to what you’re saying?5to become fashionable or popular OPP go out: Trainers really became popular in the 1980s, when casual sportswear came in.6to finish a racecome in first/second etc His horse came in second to last.7if the tide comes in, the sea moves towards the land and covers the edge of it OPP go outcome in for something phrasal verb come in for criticism/blame/scrutiny to be criticized, blamed etc for something: The government has come in for fierce criticism over its handling of this affair.come into something phrasal verb1to receive money, land, or property from someone after they have died: She’ll come into quite a lot of money when her father dies.2to be involved in something: Josie doesn’t come into the movie until quite near the end. Where do I come into all this?3come into view/sight if something comes into view, you begin to see it: The mountains were just coming into view.4come into leaf/flower/blossom to start to produce leaves or flowers: The roses are just coming into flower.5not come into it spoken used to say that something is not important: Money doesn’t really come into it.6come into your own to become very good, useful, or important in a particular situation: On icy roads, a four-wheel drive vehicle really comes into its own.come of something phrasal verb to happen as a result of something: I did ask a few questions, but nothing came of it. That’s what comes of not practising – you’ve forgotten everything!come off phrasal verb1 come off (something) to become removed from something: The label had come off, so there was no way of knowing what was on the disk.2come off (something) British English to fall off something: Dyson came off his bike as he rounded the last corner, but wasn’t badly hurt.3informal if something that has been planned comes off, it happens: In the end the trip never came off.4 informal to be successful: It was a good idea, but it didn’t quite come off. The performance on the first night came off pretty well.5come off something to stop taking a drug that you have been taking regularly: It wasn’t until I tried to come off the pills that I realized I was addicted.6come off best/better/worst etc British English to be the most or least successful, or get the most or least advantages from a situation: As far as pensions go, it’s still women who come off worst.7come off it! British English spoken used to tell someone that you do not believe what they are saying: Oh come off it! You can’t seriously be saying you knew nothing about this.come on phrasal verb1come on! spoken a)used to tell someone to hurry: Come on, we’ll be late! b)used to encourage someone to do something: Come on, you can do it! Come on, cheer up! c)used to tell someone that you know that what they have just said was not true or right: Oh come on, don’t lie! d)used to make someone angry enough to want to fight you: Come on, then, hit me!2come on in/over/up etc spoken used to tell someone to come in, over, up etc, usually in a friendly way: Come on in – I’ve made some coffee.3if a light or machine comes on, it starts working: A dog started barking and lights came on in the house.4if an illness comes on, you start to be ill with it: I can feel a headache coming on.5if a television or radio programme comes on, it starts: Just at that moment, the news came on.6if rain or snow comes on, it starts: The rain came on just before lunchtime.7to come onto a stage or sports field: He scored only two minutes after he’d come on.8to improve or make progress: The children are really coming on now. Your English is coming on really well.9come on somebody/something to find or discover someone or something by chance: We came on a group of students having a picnic.10come on strong informal to make it very clear to someone that you think they are sexually attractivecome on to somebody/something phrasal verb1to start talking about a new subject: I’ll come on to this question in a few moments.2informal if someone comes on to another person, they make it very clear that they are sexually interested in them: The way she was coming on to Jack, I’m amazed he managed to get out alive!come out phrasal verb1if something comes out, it is removed from a place: These stains will never come out!2if information comes out, people learn about it, especially after it has been kept secret: No doubt the truth will come out one day. It’s come out that several ministers received payments from the company.3if a photograph comes out, it shows a clear picture: I took some photographs, but they didn’t come out. The wedding photos have come out really well.4if a book, record etc comes out, it becomes publicly available: When is the new edition coming out?5if something comes out in a particular way, that is what it is like after it has been made or produced: I’ve made a cake, but it hasn’t come out very well. The cover has come out a bit too big.6if something you say comes out in a particular way, that is how it sounds or how it is understood: His words came out as little more than a whisper. That didn’t come out the way I meant it to. I tried to explain everything to her, but it came out all wrong (=not in the way I intended).7if someone comes out in a particular way, that is the situation they are in at the end of an event or series of events: The more experienced team came out on top.come out of She came out of the divorce quite well.8to be easy to notice: His right-wing opinions come out quite strongly in his later writings.9to say publicly that you strongly support or oppose a plan, belief etccome out in favour of The board of directors has come out in favour of a merger.come out against Teachers have come out against the proposed changes. At least he’s got the courage to come out and say what he thinks.10if the sun, moon, or stars come out, they appear in the sky: The sky cleared and the sun came out.11if a flower comes out, it opens: The snowdrops were just starting to come out.12if someone comes out, they say that they are gay when this was a secret beforecome out to That summer, I decided to come out to my parents.13 British English informal to refuse to work, as a protest: Nurses have threatened to come out in support of their pay claim. We decided to come out on strike.14if a young woman came out in the past, she was formally introduced into upper-class society at a large formal dancecome out at something phrasal verb if something comes out at a particular amount, that is the amount it adds up to: The whole trip, including fares, comes out at $900.come out in something phrasal verb come out in spots/a rash etc if you come out in spots etc, spots appear on your body: If I eat eggs, I come out in a rash.come out of something phrasal verb1to no longer be in a bad situation: There are signs that the country is coming out of recession.2to happen as a result of something: One or two excellent ideas came out of the meeting.3come out of yourself informal to start to behave in a more confident way: Penny’s really come out of herself since she started that course.come out with something phrasal verb to say something, especially something unusual or unexpected: The things he comes out with are so funny!come over phrasal verb1a)if someone comes over, they visit you at your house: Do you want to come over on Friday evening? b)if someone comes over, they come to the country where you arecome over to/from When did your family first come over to America?2come over somebody if a strong feeling comes over you, you suddenly experience it: A wave of sleepiness came over me. I’m sorry about that – I don’t know what came over me (=I do not know why I behaved in that way).3if an idea comes over well, people can understand it easily: I thought that the points he was making came over quite clearly.4if someone comes over in a particular way, they seem to have particular qualities SYN come across: He didn’t come over very well (=seem to have good qualities) in the interview.come over as She comes over as a very efficient businesswoman.5come over (all) shy/nervous etc informal to suddenly become very shy, nervous etccome round phrasal verb British English to come aroundcome through phrasal verb1if a piece of information, news etc comes through, it arrives somewhere: We’re still waiting for our exam results to come through. There is news just coming through of an explosion in a chemical factory.2to be made official, especially by having the correct documents officially approved: I’m still waiting for my divorce to come through.3come through (something) to continue to live, be strong, or succeed after a difficult or dangerous time SYN survive: If he comes through the operation OK he should be back to normal within a month. It’s been a tough time, but I’m sure you’ll come through and be all the wiser for it.come through with something phrasal verb to give someone something they need, especially when they have been worried that you would not produce it in time: Our representative in Hong Kong finally came through with the figures.come to phrasal verb1come to a decision/conclusion/agreement etc to decide something, agree on something etc after considering or discussing a situation SYN reach: We came to the conclusion that there was no other way back to the camp. If they don’t come to a decision by midnight, the talks will be abandoned.2come to a halt/stop a)to slow down and stop SYN stop: The train came to a stop just yards from the barrier. b)to stop operating or continuing: After the election our funding came to an abrupt halt.3come to something to develop so that a particular situation exists, usually a bad one: I never thought it would come to this. We need to be prepared to fight, but hopefully it won’t come to that (=that won’t be necessary). All those years of studying, and in the end it all came to nothing. It’s come to something when I’m not allowed to express an opinion in my own house!what is the world/the country etc coming to? (=used to say that the world etc is in a bad situation)4come to something to add up to a total amount: That comes to £23.50. The bill came to £48.50.5come to somebody if a thought or idea comes to you, you realize or remember something: The answer came to me in a flash. I’ve forgotten her name, but maybe it’ll come to me later.6to become conscious again after you have been unconscious: When he came to, he was lying on the floor with his hands tied behind his back.7when it comes to something informal when you are dealing with something or talking about something: He’s a bit of an expert when it comes to computers.come under something phrasal verb1come under attack/fire/scrutiny etc to be attacked, shot at etc: The government has come under attack from opposition leaders over proposals to cut health spending.2to be governed or controlled by a particular organization or person: The organization comes under the authority of the EU.3if a piece of information comes under a particular title, you can find it under that title: The proposals come under three main headings.come up phrasal verb1if someone comes up to you, they come close to you, especially in order to speak to you: One of the teachers came up and started talking to me.come up to A man came up to him and asked for a light.2if someone comes up to a place, they travel north to the place where you arecome up to Why don’t you come up to New York for the weekend?3if a subject comes up, people mention it and discuss it SYN arise: His name came up in the conversation. The subject of salaries didn’t come up.4if a problem or difficulty comes up, it appears or starts to affect you SYN arise: I’m afraid I’ll have to cancel our date – something’s come up. The same problems come up every time.5if a job or an opportunity comes up, it becomes available: A vacancy has come up in the accounts department.6to be dealt with in a law court: Your case comes up next week.7be coming up to be going to happen soon: With Christmas coming up, few people have much money to spare.8if the sun or moon comes up, it moves up into the sky where you can see it SYN rise: It was six o'clock, and the sun was just coming up.9if a plant comes up, it begins to appear above the ground: The first spring bulbs are just coming up.10if food comes up, it goes back through your mouth from your stomach after being swallowed11coming (right) up! spoken used to say that food or drink will be ready very soon: ‘Two Martinis, please.’ ‘Coming up!’come up against something/somebody phrasal verb to have to deal with problems or difficulties: We may find we come up against quite a lot of opposition from local people. You’ve got no idea of what you’re going to come up against.come up for something phrasal verb1come up for discussion/examination/review etc to be discussed, examined etc: This matter will come up for discussion at next month’s meeting. The regulations come up for review in April.2come up for election/re-election/selection etc to reach the time when people have to vote about whether you should continue in a political position: The governors come up for re-election next year.come upon somebody/something phrasal verb1to find or discover something or someone by chance: We came upon a cottage just on the edge of the wood.2literary if a feeling comes upon you, you suddenly feel it: A wave of tiredness came upon her.come up to something/somebody phrasal verb1to reach a particular standard or to be as good as you expected: This doesn’t come up to the standard of your usual work. The resort certainly failed to come up to expectations.2be (just) coming up to something to be nearly a particular time: It’s just coming up to 11 o'clock.come up with something phrasal verb1to think of an idea, answer etc: Is that the best excuse you can come up with? We’ve been asked to come up with some new ideas.2 informal to produce an amount of money: We wanted to buy the house but we couldn’t come up with the cash. How am I supposed to come up with $10,000?come1 verbcome2 noun
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1900-2000 ➔ COME1 (19)COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The bus came to an abrupt halt. The team came within an ace of winning the championship. People still remember the 1958 revolution and what came after (=happened after it). The whole thing comes apart so that you can clean it. Seals come ashore to breed. Simpson came off the bench to play in midfield. She waited for the water to come to the boil (=begin to boil). Air fares to Africa don’t come cheap (=are expensive). Yet another scandal followed close on the heels of the senator’s resignation. The event came to a close (=finished) with a disco. The house comes complete with swimming pool and sauna. The whole of this area came under Soviet control after World War II. A large branch came crashing down. The crunch came when my bank asked for my credit card back. When it came to the crunch, she couldn’t agree to marry him. The negotiations have reached a dead end. I spent all morning looking for a suitable present, but came home empty-handed. People came from far and wide (=came from many places) to see the concert. Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. The Church will welcome him back into the fold. Environmental issues came to the fore in the 1980s. Two wins at the start of the season were a foretaste of things to come. His proposals only came to fruition after the war. Many people have worked together to bring this scheme to fruition. Take your swimming trunks with you – they might come in handy (=be useful). Permanent jobs are hard to come by (=difficult to find or get). an error that would come back to haunt them for years to come writers who might come under the heading of postmodern fiction writers The decision to buy Peters came hard on the heels of the club’s promotion to Division One. He went into hiding in 1973. He left the gas on and nearly blew us all to kingdom come. Psychiatry has come a long way (=developed a lot) since the 1920s. The screw has come loose (=became loose). The driver had forgotten to fasten the safety chain and the trailer came loose (=became unattached). a revolutionary new drug that has just come onto the market These insects reach full maturity after a few weeks. All their plans came to naught (=failed). I’m warning you – don’t come any nearer! The garden’s coming along very nicely now (=it is growing well). Peace negotiations came to nought (=were not successful). She never let her dislike for him come out into the open. The egg cracked open and out came a baby chick. The shelving comes to pieces (=divides into separate parts) for easy transport. The shower head just came to pieces (=broke into separate parts) in my hand. Things have come to a pretty pass, if you can’t say what you think without causing a fight. She first came to prominence as an artist in 1989. Now are you gonna come quietly, or do I have to use force? Mark’s contract comes up for renewal at the end of this year. In the second half Leeds came roaring back with two goals in five minutes. The children came running out of the house. I came second in the UK championships. This new technique is the shape of things to come (=an example of the way things will develop in the future). Help came in the shape of a $10,000 loan from his parents. She’s started to come out of her shell a little. The news came as something of a surprise. Strikers brought production to a standstill. She came straight out with it and said she was leaving. The Conference called on all good men to come together to resist socialism. One of these buttons has come undone. I was really pleased that they came to visit me. Suntanning first came into vogue in the mid-1930s.
The bus came to an abrupt halt. The team came within an ace of winning the championship.· Since the act came into force, all public buildings must have disabled access.
People still remember the 1958 revolution and what came after (=happened after it). (also conclude an agreement formal)· It took the two sides several weeks to reach an agreement.· The two sides failed to come to an agreement.
(=it happens)· His announcement came after two days of peace talks.
(=find a way of dealing with a problem)· The government is struggling to come up with answers to our economic problems.
The whole thing comes apart so that you can clean it. Seals come ashore to breed. (=help someone)· One of her fellow passengers came to her assistance.
· Camps in the south came under attack from pro-government forces.
· Mark and I came from very similar backgrounds.
Simpson came off the bench to play in midfield.· Suddenly a motorbike came around the bend at top speed.
(=is for that amount)· The bill came to $60.
(=separate into many different parts because of being old or damaged)· The book was so old that I was afraid it would fall to bits.
· His sudden death came as a huge blow to us all.
She waited for the water to come to the boil (=begin to boil). (=it is published for the first time)· Everyone was waiting for the new Harry Potter book to come out.
· The room was hot and no breeze came through the window.
(=start to produce buds)
· I waited and waited but the bus didn’t come.
· A button has come off my skirt.
· When the case finally came to court, they were found not guilty.
· By the time her case went to trial, her story had changed.
· The case came before the federal courts.
· The data we collected fell into two categories.
Air fares to Africa don’t come cheap (=are expensive).· Things came to a climax with a large protest march on June 30th.
· The climax came when the president ordered an air strike on the capital.
Yet another scandal followed close on the heels of the senator’s resignation. The event came to a close (=finished) with a disco. (also go down with a cold British English) informal (=catch one)· A lot of people go down with colds at this time of year.
(also emerge from a coma formal)· Alice wanted to be there when he came out of his coma.
(=do something to show you are sexually interested in someone)
· Stuart came second in the swimming competition.
The house comes complete with swimming pool and sauna.· The negotiations took place and they arrived at a compromise.
(=decide something)· I eventually came to the conclusion that I wanted to study law.
· Local people have often come into conflict with planning officials.
(=meet or spend time with someone)· It’s good to come into contact with people from different cultures.
The whole of this area came under Soviet control after World War II.· At that moment, a police car came around the corner.
· The case came to court 21 months later.
A large branch came crashing down. (=be criticized)· The deal came under fierce criticism from other American airlines.
The crunch came when my bank asked for my credit card back. When it came to the crunch, she couldn’t agree to marry him. (also darkness descends literary)· As darkness fell, rescue workers had to give up the search.
The negotiations have reached a dead end. (=make a decision after a lot of thought)· We hope they will reach their decision as soon as possible.
(=think of or suggest one)· We asked the architect to come up with another design.
· Mark is coming over for dinner.
(=something you want happens)· I’d always wanted to go to Africa and at last my dream came true.
(=stop taking drugs permanently)· It was years before I was able to come off drugs.
· Your father said he’d be home early.
I spent all morning looking for a suitable present, but came home empty-handed. (=end)· Arsenal’s ten-match unbeaten run came to an end with a 3–2 defeat at United.
· People passed in single file through the narrow entrance.
(=something begins to have an effect)· Consumer confidence also enters the equation.
(=be respected or admired more or less by someone)
(=start to exist)· Pakistan came into existence as an independent country in 1947.
(=be as good as someone hoped or expected)· The match was boring, and didn't live up to our expectations at all.
· Scientists have been unable to find an explanation for this phenomenon.
People came from far and wide (=came from many places) to see the concert. (=become fashionable again)· Short skirts are coming back into fashion this year.
(=it is made available for people to see)· The film is due to come out in May.
Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. (also the fog descends literary) (=it appears)· Day after day the fog came down.
The Church will welcome him back into the fold. Environmental issues came to the fore in the 1980s. Two wins at the start of the season were a foretaste of things to come. His proposals only came to fruition after the war. Many people have worked together to bring this scheme to fruition.· The building work comes with a 30-year guarantee.
(=something or someone stops moving)· In front of them, the truck gradually slowed down and came to a halt.
Take your swimming trunks with you – they might come in handy (=be useful). Permanent jobs are hard to come by (=difficult to find or get). an error that would come back to haunt them for years to come writers who might come under the heading of postmodern fiction writers· The heating comes on at six.
The decision to buy Peters came hard on the heels of the club’s promotion to Division One. He went into hiding in 1973. (=arrive at your home) It was midnight by the time we got home. What time are you coming home?
It was midnight by the time we got home. What time are you coming home? British English, leave/come out of the hospital American English· Her mother never left the hospital.
(=think of an idea)· He’s always coming up with interesting ideas.
(=someone suddenly thinks of an idea)· The idea came to me while I was having a bath.
(=be influenced by someone or something)· They had come under the influence of a religious sect.
· The architect’s chief inspiration came from Christopher Wren.
· The tent comes with instructions on how to put it up.
(also an issue arises formal) (=people started to discuss it)· The issue arose during a meeting of the Budget Committee.
He left the gas on and nearly blew us all to kingdom come.· Dickson came up the ladder from the engine room.
(=start having leaves)· The apple tree had finally come into leaf.
· A letter came for you today.
· The only light came from the fire.
Psychiatry has come a long way (=developed a lot) since the 1920s. The screw has come loose (=became loose). The driver had forgotten to fasten the safety chain and the trailer came loose (=became unattached). (=come to someone's house for lunch)· Can you come to lunch tomorrow?
· The mail had come late that day.
· I can’t get this dirty mark to come out.
a revolutionary new drug that has just come onto the market These insects reach full maturity after a few weeks. (=stop taking a medication)· Coming off the medication made him more aggressive.
(=you suddenly remember things clearly)· Evelyn hugged her daughter, as memories came flooding back to her.
· A majority of the migrants had come from this region.
(=comes to a place)· The mist came down like a curtain.
(=is earned and received)· Rob wasn’t working for a while, so we had less money coming in.
(=used to say how someone makes their money)· All of Dawson’s money came from drugs.
(=the next few months)· Further work is planned for the coming months.
(=appears as it gets dark or a cloud moves)· The moon came out from behind the clouds.
(=be different from or similar to other things of the same type)· He clearly comes from a different mould than his brother.
(=be easy for you to do because you have a natural ability) Speaking in public seems to come quite naturally to her.
Speaking in public seems to come quite naturally to her. All their plans came to naught (=failed). I’m warning you – don’t come any nearer! The garden’s coming along very nicely now (=it is growing well). (=something bad that someone fears actually happens)· The company's worst financial nightmare has now come true.
· The noise seemed to be coming from the kitchen.
(=be noticed by someone)· This problem first came to our notice last summer.
Peace negotiations came to nought (=were not successful). She never let her dislike for him come out into the open.· We had outgrown our house when the opportunity came up to buy one with more land.
· The strongest opposition came from Republican voters.
The egg cracked open and out came a baby chick. (=keeps starting and stopping)· The pain comes and goes but it’s never too severe.
(also attend a party formal)· Are you going to Tom’s party?· About 500 people will attend a party in her honour.
(=begins to be the government)· The ruling party came to power in May 2001.
· I’m sorry, she can’t come to the phone right now.
The shelving comes to pieces (=divides into separate parts) for easy transport. The shower head just came to pieces (=broke into separate parts) in my hand. (=think of a plan)· The chairman must come up with a plan to get the club back on its feet.
(=talk about the most important thing immediately)· I haven't got much time so let's get straight to the point.
· There comes a point where you have to accept defeat.
· We stood on the quay and watched the ships come into port.
· You have a duty not to disclose confidential information that comes into your possession.
(=start having it)· How did you come into possession of this document?
· This letter came in the post this morning.
(=start being in control)· Tony Blair came to power in 1997.
· The new prime minister has already come under pressure from the opposition to call an election.
Things have come to a pretty pass, if you can’t say what you think without causing a fight. (also come at a high price) (=involve suffering or a bad result)· She won fame, but it came at a high price.
· The boy just come out of prison after doing two years for assault.
She first came to prominence as an artist in 1989. (=think of one)· The sales staff came up with an innovative proposal.
(=start to be doubted)· The special protection given to these animals has come into question in recent years.
Now are you gonna come quietly, or do I have to use force? (also finish first/last etc in a race)· She came third in the race.
(=it falls)· If the rain starts coming down, we can always go inside.· The monsoon rain comes down in sheets.
(=get a rash) My mother comes out in a rash if she eats seafood.
My mother comes out in a rash if she eats seafood.· I would rather you came in spring.
· He criticised European leaders for supporting a regime that came to power through violence.
· The court's decision came as a huge relief to Microsoft.
Mark’s contract comes up for renewal at the end of this year. (=be reviewed after a particular period of time has ended)· His contract is coming up for review.
In the second half Leeds came roaring back with two goals in five minutes. The children came running out of the house. (=be included in it)· Banks and building societies fall within the scope of the new legislation.
(=be examined)· The cost and efficiency of the health care system has come under increasing scrutiny.
I came second in the UK championships. (=lose a game or competition, or not be as successful as someone else)
This new technique is the shape of things to come (=an example of the way things will develop in the future). Help came in the shape of a $10,000 loan from his parents. She’s started to come out of her shell a little. (=be very unexpected)· The collapse of the company came as a shock to us all.
(=it happens)· I don’t know how this situation has come about.
(also a smell emanates from somewhere formal)· A delicious smell of baking came from the kitchen.· He was getting complaints about the smell emanating from his shop.
· We are working together to find the best solution we can.
The news came as something of a surprise.· The sounds seemed to be coming from the study below.
· I never drink before going on stage.
· I came off stage last night and just collapsed in a heap.
(=be good enough)· Her work was not up to standard.
Strikers brought production to a standstill. (=appear in the sky)· We arrived home just as the stars were coming out.
She came straight out with it and said she was leaving. (=start a strike)· An estimated 70,000 public sector workers went on strike.
(=people start talking about it)· The subject of payment never came up.
(=think of something to suggest)· We’ve come up with five suggestions.
(=appears when cloud moves away)· The rain stopped and the sun came out.
(=appears at the beginning of the day)· As the sun rises, the birds take flight.
(=be surprising)· The announcement came as a surprise to most people.
(=not be surprising)· It came as no surprise when Lester got the job.
(=be thought to have probably done something wrong)· He was still under suspicion of fraud.
· I went back home by taxi.
· These birds helped Darwin develop his theory of natural selection.
(=someone suddenly has a thought)· The thought occurred to him that she might be lying.
(=the sea comes nearer)· Once the tide comes in, the cove is cut off.
The Conference called on all good men to come together to resist socialism.· If the case ever went to trial, he would probably lose.
· The book comes a little too close to the truth for their liking.
One of these buttons has come undone. (=be useful)· The extra income would come in useful.
(also a vacancy arises/occurs formal) (=there is a vacancy)· A vacancy has arisen on the committee.
· Suddenly the pyramids came into view.
I was really pleased that they came to visit me. Suntanning first came into vogue in the mid-1930s.· She wrote to say she couldn’t come to the wedding.
· His wish came true when he was called up to play for England.
· She would love it if you came.
(=the year that is about to start)· Here are some events to look out for in the coming year.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► somebody’s chickens have come home to roost► which came first, the chicken or the egg?► come a cropper► take each day as it comes► have something coming out (of) your ears► easy come, easy go► take effect/come into effect► first come, first served► come into focus/bring something into focus► come into force/bring something into force► be/come/go halfway to doing something► here comes somebody/something► bring something home to somebody/come home to somebody► come to life/roar into life/splutter into life etc► somebody’s number comes up► come to a pretty/sorry pass► feel peculiar/come over all peculiar► when/if it comes to the point► come to a pretty pass► when/if push comes to shove► that’s rich (coming from him/you etc)► come out of something/come up smelling of roses► be coming up roses► come down on somebody like a ton of bricks► it will all come out in the wash► the wheels come off something► come within a whisker of (doing) something► go up/come down in the world► if the worst comes to the worst
a man’s semen (=the liquid he produces during sex)- But the highlight for me was a thumping take on a buzzer which came adrift after a couple of really powerful lunges.
- Shortly after this I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
- A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands.
- And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall?
- At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State.
- Here, Wade realized, he had come up against a few firm truths.
- In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.
- The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against.
- Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.
- What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees.
- Emma will inherit a fortune when she comes of age.
- In the 1940s, movies really came of age as a creative art form.
- Mozart's music came of age when the baroque style was at its height.
- They planned to marry as soon as she came of age.
- Britain's adopted children had come of age.
- Could 1992 be the year when the environmental revolution really comes of age?
- Duroc had had to come of age and replace the older Duroc in the service of Nguyen Seth.
- His leap from collector to seller may be the surest sign yet that road-map collecting has come of age.
- However, you will come of age in two months.
- It must be child development with this goal: that every child be ready for school when that child comes of age.
- Morris came of age in the 1850s.
- Cabral looks at the clay and her face comes alive as she begins to shape it.
- Hodges' stories make history come alive.
- The streets come alive after dark.
- And the defense came alive in the second half.
- As I began to research the background and archaeology of those places, the book came alive in a different way.
- By night, the Landing comes alive with jazz and the blues.
- For most people such details might be rather boring, but Robertson makes the narrative come alive through the personalities.
- In Great Groups, talent comes alive.
- Jane Austen's ironies came alive, and the ellipses in Virginia Woolf's prose started to speak.
- The walls come alive with foaming beer and music surrounds them as the audience journeys upward in a can of Guinness.
- There were voices outside as the train came alive.
- A Democratic Capitol Hill aide said it's too early to tell whether Congress will go along with the proposal.
- Gingrich listened carefully to the Tuesday Lunch Bunch, and sometimes came along to their meetings.
- If you would like to reassess your life and learn how to use stress to your advantage, come along.
- Other religious schools unwilling to go along with them should no longer expect state funding.
- Sam Fermoyle came along West Street.
- So I agreed to go along.
- The discussion groups were relatively open, and many people came along as friends of friends.
- Until Green Bay came along, either one of these two teams was going to win the Super Bowl.
- But every now and then, a bombshell comes along.
- Let Hilda know if you are coming along.
- Nevertheless, if we allow ourselves to be swayed by every fashion that comes along, we live in a perpetual muddle.
- Radiation, coming along shortly thereafter as a therapy method, reinforced this concept of cancer as a local body problem.
- Snake come along he bite you.
- They go to a place where they can be along and be able to find their soul.
- Until you came along, Century House was right out on a limb.
- You get these crackpot ideas about helping people who come along to you with a mournful tale.
- Depending on the circumstances, I was willing to go along.
- I went along the colonnade to the corner of the southern front of the house.
- In the best programs, 3-and 4-year-olds learn social skills, how to share and get along.
- Rashly volunteering to be a contestant, I went along the previous Saturday to practice.
- She said she does not get along well with her children and can not get them to clean.
- She wants to go along too.
- The countries in the region do not want Kosovo independence, and Washington appears to go along with that view.
- Why don't you ask Brenda and Belinda to come along to Friday meetings?
- A last round of the rooms wouldn't come amiss.
- A little humility in the medical debate would not go amiss.
- A little thank you to the Ombudsman would not go amiss. --------------------.
- A tankful of petrol wouldn't come amiss.
- Adding a few seconds to your dev.time to allow for the stop, etc. wouldn't go amiss.
- An apology wouldn't go amiss.
- In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss.
- This remained a most important consideration, but some relaxation of the original prohibition would not go amiss.
- Cuttings that should come to everybody's attention quickly can be pinned to the library noticeboard or contained in a monthly newsletter.
- I pay tribute to the fairness of the Home Office in dealing with the cases that have come to my attention.
- It's just come to my attention that he might have corresponded with Christabel LaMotte.
- Small strokes of frontal lobe seldom come to the attention of neurologists.
- Then it came to the attention of Edward Hooper, an unusually tenacious man.
- Unlike venereal disease, leprosy came to Western attention relatively late.
- We maintain a computerised database of potential acquirers against which we screen all opportunities that come to our attention.
- New democracies have come into being since the end of the Cold War.
- A change from Krankoor to Kranko came between the 1847 and 1848 volumes, soon after Theunis's death.
- A true cat always comes between you and your newspaper.
- He has come between us and ruined our lives.
- No time lag should come between demand and supply.
- The bulk of the decline in traditional families came between 1970 and 1980, with smaller decreases since then.
- The Voice had come between them.
- Westward the Hudson came between Sammler and the great Spry industries of New Jersey.
- Yet again the business of running the hotel had come between them when they had something important to sort out.
- He and John, the Red Comyn, had come to blows before.
- The effect was unnerving, and at first I thought the old men would come to blows.
- The two actors reputedly almost came to blows and ended the film not talking to each other.
- The two of them shouted at each other and until Daley stomped out, the secretaries feared they would come to blows.
- They came to blows in Jersey last weekend and Speedie was fined £50 in court.
- Two men had come to blows, an arm had been broken.
- We curse and leave the room or even come to blows.
- When Antony and Cleopatra come to blows, the scene explodes.
- After the experiments of the 1960s, education has come full circle in its methods of teaching reading.
- A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.
- Cross the Bahnhof bridge, and you will have come full circle back to the starting point.
- In a way, we've almost come full circle back to what I was trained to do, which is teaching.
- Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle.
- So we have come full circle.
- The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle.
- Thus the research has come full circle.
- Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.
- It's time the government came clean about its plans to raise income tax.
- The bank eventually came clean and admitted they had made a mistake.
- And when you picked hold of the fish and got hold of a piece it would come clean away.
- He felt happy to finally be able to come clean about it, but he felt her withdraw.
- In addition, you risk being fired when you come clean, another attorney pointed out.
- Labour will not come clean with its figures, so it is bound to describe ours as jiggery-pokery.
- So when the station came clean, they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias.
- Still, I must come clean.
- That is all very well, but why does he not come clean and give us Labour's figures?
- That night, at dinner, David and I came clean, and told our friends about singing to fish.
- A loose end, Kirov reminded himself as he came close to the man.
- A visit to the ancient ruins, especially on a quiet weekday, comes close to a religious experience.
- And this night, he comes close to getting seriously injured.
- Even La Scala, where an opening-night stall seat goes for £500, rarely comes close to breaking even.
- He can come close, perhaps, but the closer he comes, the greater the risk of slippage.
- Her horse came close and watched her.
- Later Mr O'Malley came close to confirming that his party would quit the coalition later this week.
- Miguel wanted to trust Firebug; he came close to letting everything spill out.
- The trial brought the issue of sexual harassment out of the closet.
- Once people decide to come out of the closet, it is pretty easy to do here.
- But 20 years have at least seen her interests come in from the cold.
- But we have come in from the cold to bring back a sneak preview.
- Never come in from the cold and toast by a hot fire.
- Timothy Cranmer did not come in from the cold, exactly.
- Voice over Another faithful sign that winter is truly upon us, is when wildlife comes in from the cold.
- Who exactly was coming in from the cold?
- They stay up and play cards till the cows come home.
- "What if they refuse?" "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
- A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune.
- Friends don't come back from the dead, Leila thought, rampaging through the corridor from the canteen.
- The single engine airplane business came back from the dead after the General Aviation Revitalization Act made it harder to sue.
- When Cardiff had come back from the dead, he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer.
- But winning a honeymoon just months before your wedding is a dream come true.
- For him, being aboard the raft was a dream come true.
- For Ruth it will be a dream come true as she becomes the youngest female licensed amateur rider in history.
- It really is a dream come true.
- It would be a dream come true to be able to observe my favourite species in a more natural situation.
- That would be a dream come true, but everybody around the country wants to win it.
- Winning a number was a dream come true for Deborah Fullford of Cambridge, the final Massachusetts woman selected.
- Adai can come back to Earth after Gog is dead - after I am dead, perhaps.
- AIr travellers came down to earth with a bump yesterday when they joined in some charity aerobics.
- In Karuzi you quickly come down to earth.
- Maybe, but the once pricey products that use this satellite technology have come down to earth.
- Peter Lilley came down to earth.
- They recently have come down to Earth.
- Campbell came under fire for his handling of the negotiations.
- Grain-based cereal prices already have come under fire from Capitol Hill, with a report in mid-March by Reps.
- He added that to be accurate, the aircraft would have to risk coming under fire.
- He, in turn, came under fire from conservative Republicans in his home state.
- Its stance has come under fire from the president of the private sector's wood alliance, Corma.
- Peacekeeping forces came under fire in isolated incidents.
- Sir Derek came under fire from several shareholders.
- The service came under fire as scores of roads across the province were clogged with snow, snarling traffic and causing chaos.
- When crop-dusters come under fire, it is up to DynCorp helicopter pilots to provide support.
- Alma's family will always come first with her.
- For me, over the years, work came first, family came second.
- The rains came first, then the storms.
- And, like most important values, it came first from my family and was reinforced by good teachers.
- Angie Costello came first to mind, a bright lipsticked smile above a striped blue apron.
- But Rosie had come first, and real people mattered more than fantasies.
- Culture in Berlin came first through state institutions, and developed very late and all at once.
- I came first to the Flat Garden, with its bonsai azaleas, temple statuary, and a stunning view of Portland.
- The theory always came first, put forward from the desire to have an elegant and consistent mathematical model.
- This is where all bad accidents come first and have their clothes removed and first transfusions.
- Which came first, the decline in public interest or the decline in political news?
- A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.
- Now his fortunes are poised to turn full circle again.
- Now the pattern has turned full circle.
- Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle.
- The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle.
- The wheel has turned full circle in the past 25 years.
- Thus the research has come full circle.
- Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.
- But, as the saying goes, what goes around comes around.
- Neil Young's annual fall concert always delivers the goods with famous musicians and good music.
- But out of sight at the other end of the course, Mr Hill had also come to grief.
- Far from remaining a hero, he came to grief.
- She'd come to grief acting like that, but not from him.
- The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief, and it is not altogether surprising that it does.
- Then might not the rotting stump of the tree split under their weight and they come to grief?
- This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence.
- When it comes to that interesting pastime, most members of most species come to grief.
- At that time, she was still coming to grips with her unexpected plunge into social activism.
- BInstitutions are just now coming to grips with the consequences.
- In my view this is an evasion of the teacher's duty to enable pupils to get to grips with academic language.
- Neither Jantzen nor McFague really gets to grips with the philosophical issues involved.
- Now he's getting to grips with his injuries.
- The whole program works very well, I still seem to have problems in getting to grips with some areas.
- Tutorials on disk are the latest way to get to grips with problem areas.
- We are still trying to come to grips with the problems identified by the Romantics.
- A collection of prints and paintings by Picasso came under the hammer at Sotheby's yesterday.
- Three Renoir paintings will come under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.
- As for football, it also came under the hammer for the usual reasons.
- Hundreds of items go under the hammer to save a medieval manor.
- In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction.
- It was part of the contents of a unique toy museum in Buckinghamshire most of which came under the hammer today.
- Read in studio A collection of battered old toys has come under the hammer at an auction today.
- So that and nearly 500 other lots will go under the hammer at Sotherbys tomorrow.
- The rest of his collection is going under the hammer.
- They will go under the hammer at the London auctioneers Spink on 17 May.
- And any missile that came to hand.
- Departmental staff are encouraged to share information as recorded, and other information as it comes to hand.
- Harrison, ever practical and resourceful, took what materials came to hand, and handled them well.
- No suitable material came to hand for the box hedges.
- The first item that came to hand was the flower.
- Then they replaced the nonfiction temporarily, as the volumes came to hand, and started on the second half.
- Until today, that was, when suddenly two very different pieces of information had come to hand.
- You're trying for something that's funky, something that sounds good, and you just grab whatever comes to hand.
- Fortunately, none of the hostages came to any serious harm.
- I'm sure Craig's old enough to catch a train into town without coming to any harm.
- If you keep quiet, you'll come to no harm.
- He had it coming, and I did him in.
- Put like that and you might think they had it coming.
- That pair obviously just had it coming.
- The situation came to a head when the workers went out on strike.
- Despite these embassy warnings matters seemed in danger of coming to a head early in 1951.
- Frictions between the Truman administration and MacArthur on the conduct of the war came to a head in April 1951.
- It all came to a head a couple weekends back.
- It was a struggle which came to a head in the reign of Edward the Confessor, which began in 1042.
- Matters finally came to a head about six weeks ago when my wife and I went out to dinner with another couple.
- That part of the debate should come to a head in December, when commissioners are scheduled to formally approve the projects.
- They came to a head in 1562 at the Council of Trent, reconvened after a ten-year break.
- Yet, even as this crisis came to a head, the bishops remained unrepentant.
- During their bizarre courtship she was his willing puppy who came to heel when he whistled.
- Sometimes they succeed in pressuring others to come to heel.
- Come hell or high water, he'd never missed a race and he wasn't going to miss this one.
- I'll be there in time. Don't worry. Come hell or high water.
- I said I'd do it, so I will, come hell or high water.
- My father felt I should stay in my marriage come hell or high water.
- She'd come this far to say her piece and say it she would, come hell or high water.
- It comes hot on the heels of the C5 saloon we showed you last week.
- How come he's asked us to spend all this money and not them?
- How come I can't make her happy, how come she can't make me happy?
- How come Mrs Wall-Eye know my name?
- How come the vast majority of the population appears to want to play make-believe?
- How come you never asked me what happened?
- Joey, how come you never sweet-talk me in person?
- As you are risen, it is new kingdom come. 17.
- He heard Barnabas hit the study floor running, scattering a braided rug to kingdom come.
- He nearly blew us all to kingdom come once ...
- His movements came within inches of blowing them all to kingdom come.
- The people in the kingdom came to love Aladdin, and the sultan made him a captain in the army.
- The truck was blown to kingdom come.
- Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
- Ya do one fucken thing wrong in yur whole goddamn life an ya got ta pay fer it till kingdom come!
- It eventually came to light that the CIA had information about a security problem.
- But as Judge Priore's investigation continues, more mysteries come to light.
- Few such blemishes, given the secrecy of organizational practice, came to light.
- However, very interesting dynamics regarding the competition and market structure are coming to light.
- It is a complete mystery to everyone how the following gems came to light in 1989.
- The debate might have been clarified by study of the relevant Sanskrit texts: but these came to light only slowly.
- The problem came to light when an ambulance was delayed attending an emergency at Harwood-in-Teesdale, just before Christmas.
- The relationship came to light when a mysterious note was handed to a barrister at an earlier hearing.
- This came to light in the present century during widening and repair operations.
- All of this comes to mind because of the movies.
- As I thought about this, two questions kept coming to mind.
- Dell and Elonex immediately spring to mind.
- Faded was the word that sprang to mind - everything had a rather tired quality about it.
- He waited for something to come to mind.
- Multiple calamities had come to mind.
- Three possible explanations come to mind.
- Bankside activity has reached such a pitch, even at night, that the carp will not come near the margins.
- Her fiance, the man who was supposed to love her, had not come near her since her father's death.
- My wife would not come near me.
- But it had come to nothing, and in the process he had recognised the truth behind his motives.
- Crack addicts, criminals, people whose lives have come to nothing.
- Even Sam Smith's valiant attempts to reduce the deficit came to nothing.
- If this was the intention it came to nothing, for the title was abolished in 1554.
- Plots to dispose of him came to nothing.
- Sadly it has come to nothing.
- Speculation that the deputy chairman, Lord Barnett, might also be removed came to nothing.
- Without action your job hunting will come to nothing.
- A seventy million pounds engine plant came on stream three years ago producing engines for Rover.
- Norton believes privatisation of electricity and water companies means more funds will come on stream.
- The Lomond platform is due to come on stream in April.
- The plant is scheduled to come on stream in the spring of 1992.
- They will be concentrated in the same industries and come on stream as the economy is beginning its recovery from the depression.
- Those two plants came on stream at a time when we needed all the capacity they could provide.
- Two years later, the new developments are on stream, bringing the target of 400 job opportunities even closer.
- With more and more reactors coming on stream every year, it was inevitable that problems would begin to occur.
- And so it came to pass.
- But it's not really surprising that this accommodation should come to pass.
- It really did come to pass.
- It will come to pass, shortly I presume, that others will come forward to claim they wrote the book.
- None of this may come to pass, but all efforts to prevent it so far have backfired.
- Such regulations may someday come to pass, but perhaps not soon enough for the butternut.
- The odds on this coming to pass are daunting.
- Whatever the priestess at Delphi said would happen infallibly came to pass.
- Job opportunities like this don't come down the pike that often.
- Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike?
- Burrow runs two miles, rain or shine, everyday.
- Every morning at about 5am, come rain or shine, James Zarei leaves his South Croydon home on his morning run.
- He seldom drinks alcohol, never touches drugs, and runs six miles every morning, rain or shine.
- I kid you not: each year rain or shine, Californian Poppy.
- Scores of rambling and cycling clubs headed remorselessly for the Dales each weekend, come rain or shine.
- The working week began every Monday, rain or shine.
- Alberto has come to the rescue with One Step, a great new two-in-one shampoo and conditioner.
- And I could see no more, until the cavalry came to the rescue.
- But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue.
- But once again ingenuity came to the rescue.
- In theory, the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue.
- Once again, Ashputtel sang her song for the birds; once again they came to her rescue.
- The designer from Mark Wilkinson, Debbie Weston, came to the rescue and suggested custom-painted ones.
- The thirty-day rule comes to the rescue for thirty days.
- Lynn's eyes came to rest on a framed picture on the bookshelf.
- The plane skidded along the runway and came to rest in a cornfield.
- A curlew called out as it rose above the waters, then came to rest alongside its mate among the rushes.
- Ahab abandons his watch and walks about the deck finally coming to rest against the rail.
- Finally the raft came to rest, sitting just below the tideline.
- From time to time she would glance back into the room, her eyes coming to rest on the casually seated figure of Tsu Ma.
- His second shot came to rest in a greenside bunker.
- Meanwhile, we spun out and came to rest with the car still running.
- She woke slowly from a vague dream as an errant breeze drifted over her face, coming to rest on her mouth.
- Those which happen to come to rest in a non-absorbing direction will absorb no more photons, and will thereafter stay put.
- I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd go along for the ride.
- But do members just go along for the ride?
- His pride would never let Olajuwon simply go along for the ride.
- I was wondering if you fancied coming along for the ride.
- I went along for the ride.
- Lord knows where they're heading, but you really should go along for the ride.
- Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride.
- Other major players in the Las Vegas casino market came along for the ride.
- The dancers were flown to Washington, with Talley Beatty going along for the ride.
- Their extravagant overspending has come home to roost.
- Eventually, of course, the chickens came home to roost.
- When Bob Dylan calls, musicians come running.
- At once there came running to her from all directions a pack of great wolves.
- Fellers come running, bobbies come running and it was a right old dust-up.
- In under two minutes she came running in with her clothes.
- Setting priorities Land economists questioned whether developers would come running if the city built a canal.
- She came running up to the van and climbed in beside him.
- She had contrarily thought that if he really cared he would have come running after her.
- The villagers came running, naturally, but there were no wolves.
- Then he loped away as a hound came running silently through the trees, nose to the ground, scenting slowly.
- And even if it is not significant, it has the potential to be so-which amounts to the same thing.
- And literature will amount to the same thing: all writers are copycats.
- At once she thought: I could have taken two thousand, three - it would come to the same thing.
- Or rather, politics and morality come to the same thing.
- Or they act as if they do, which comes to the same thing.
- Since it formed a halo over the puck, did that amount to the same thing?
- The public purse would not get anything; after all, it all comes to the same thing.
- When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing.
- By then, there was a boyfriend on the scene.
- All this quickness of mind, all her decisiveness had turned to mush when Mac came on the scene.
- But we must keep in mind that millions of species arose and disappeared long before mankind came on the scene.
- By then, Wife Number Five had come on the scene.
- Etty with her friend Dolly Murchie, had come on the scene.
- I try to explain that Charles was only four when I came on the scene.
- No doubt when the subsidy commissioners came on the scene they were prevailed on to restore assessments to approximately the levels of 1515.
- That is where the plugger and press officer come on the scene.
- The country's whole economy is coming apart at the seams.
- Everyone had seen the layoffs coming, but nobody could do anything to stop them.
- Jason saw the stock market crash coming and sold most of his shares.
- Then one day she just walked out -- I suppose I should have seen it coming really.
- Beyond him, I could see the camp coming alive.
- Birds, like planes, usually face into the wind, so they do not see the plane coming.
- He looked up to see Norm coming down the driveway.
- One of the man-things had seen them coming and shouted a warning.
- Sarah Fleming saw them coming through the window of the front room.
- She saw him coming and intended to give him a wide berth.
- That Salvor Hardin had seen it coming made it none the more pleasant.
- We were heading for the landing zone and could even see a chopper coming toward us.
- We've been to the state tournament four times, but we've come up short every time.
- He struck the ball tentatively, and it came up short.
- I went home, wanting to do something very special, but came up short.
- If we keep coming up short, tax the Patagonians.
- Judged by their own standards, they came up short.
- Kansas played well for 38 minutes but came up short in the end.
- Riley keeps coming up short, but insists on coming right back to pound the same hammer with the same nail.
- This analysis often reveals why some groups regularly succeed and others regularly come up short.
- We're so close to getting the job done, but we keep coming up short.
- We stood at the window until their car came into sight.
- After a moment they came into sight.
- But they instantly look the other way when he and his motorcade come into sight.
- But when the lane curved, a tavern came into sight and she went in.
- He'd have plenty of time to drive down when the target vehicle came into sight.
- He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road.
- The camp came into sight at the bottom of the road.
- The carob came into sight below.
- I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends.
- A limousine carrying Harris and several other black passengers jerked to a stop.
- An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
- And moments later he comes to a stop.
- As it came to a stop, it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.
- He had given no sign of injury until we came to a stop.
- It swerved wildly towards the wall, bounced over the pavement and came to a stop four feet from the concrete wall.
- Once it has been consumed, the Darwinian machine comes to a stop.
- When it jerked to a stop they were led out into a narrow carpeted passage.
- The elevator finally came to a stop at the 56th floor.
- An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
- As it came to a stop, it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.
- He had given no sign of injury until we came to a stop.
- His looking finally came to a stop at the Big Nurse.
- Lacuna came to a stop behind her, and pulled her gently into an embrace that for once was nothing but tender.
- The elevator rose smoothly, then came to a stop.
- We came to a stop outside my bedroom door and he made a lurching movement.
- With a triumphant belch, the train came to a stop and soon from a first-class carriage the beloved figure emerged.
- The new plant will come on stream at the end of the year.
- A seventy million pounds engine plant came on stream three years ago producing engines for Rover.
- If successful, the trust will come on stream in April, 1993.
- No new cases would come on stream for us to deal with.
- Norton believes privatisation of electricity and water companies means more funds will come on stream.
- The Lomond platform is due to come on stream in April.
- The plant is scheduled to come on stream in the spring of 1992.
- They will be concentrated in the same industries and come on stream as the economy is beginning its recovery from the depression.
- With more and more reactors coming on stream every year, it was inevitable that problems would begin to occur.
- It took years for Rob to come to terms with his mother's death.
- An individual's sexuality is their own affair and they will come to terms with it when they are ready to.
- Four died in hospital and Emma Hartley, one of the survivors, was trying to come to terms with that.
- He sat at the window, staring out into the night trying to come to terms with the anger that overwhelmed him.
- I had to come to terms with that.
- It helps the young reader to come to terms with his or her own non-rational, unconscious-dominated behaviour.
- Only by finding each other again can they hope to come to terms with their tragedy.
- Refusing to come to terms with reality harms us and, incidentally, deceives no one else for long.
- They've been trying to come to terms with what's happened ever since.
- I expected the criticism it comes with the territory when you're a public figure.
- As economies mature, they say, economic slowdown comes with the territory.
- Dealing with the guest who is in a delicate business situation or just a very bad mood all goes with the territory.
- Death always went with the territory.
- Human rights abuses go with the territory.
- Most of us have been doing this for a long time, and it goes with the territory.
- She just said she felt it went with the territory.
- Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory.
- The strain, the negativity, the isolation all came with the territory.
- But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John.
- Come to think of it, Columbia wouldn't have been around if it hadn't been for the blues.
- Come to think of it, even Hillary Rodham Clinton could learn something from Alexander about how to invest her money.
- Come to think of it, he'd seemed rather a decent chap, some one it might be worth getting to know.
- Come to think of it, they might want to hang on to those packing crates.
- So did Mom, come to think of it.
- You never know, come to think of it.
- If they think it's going to be an easy game, they've got another think coming!
- In a survey of customer preference, one model came consistently out on top.
- In all action movies, the hero always comes out on top.
- Usually the team with the most talent comes out on top.
- Anthony Courtney's warnings welled up again, coupled with a new determination to come out on top.
- Both individuals should feel they come out on top.
- But Tsongas turned those views around when he came out on top, beating rival Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.
- But WindowWorks comes out on top.
- The hero or heroine must ultimately come out on top.
- While Gladiator came out on top, the contest was far from a shoo-in.
- Yet, if they are in one, most men want to come out on top.
- You could sum up the event by saying a batch of first-time nominees came out on top this year.
- After 21 years, Carl's dream of owning a home came true.
- Patterson's dream came true when he won the Boston marathon on his first attempt.
- People say that if you make a wish at the top of the hill, it always comes true.
- And in no time at all, they see their dreams come true.
- But it is not a dream that is likely to come true, though perhaps not for the obvious reason.
- Ideas become a bit confused by the fact they feel a dream has come true.
- She was glad to see such a love story come true before her eyes.
- She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true.
- This is the land where dreams come true if you really, honestly want them to.
- This was a dream that came true.
- We thought maybe our worst nightmare came true.
- And a dream come true ... The advert for grandparents that came up trumps.
- Conrad Allen came up trumps again, finishing fourth in the boys 800 metres in a personal best 2 mins. 22.
- Ibanez seem to have taken another daring step in their continuing success story and come up trumps once again.
- In part two: Four of a kind ... Durnin plays the winning hand as United come up trumps against Luton.
- You've come up trumps, Derek.
- Soon her marriage came tumbling down.
- And the marriage comes tumbling down as Roth, like a Roth hero, demands to become unbound from marital ties.
- Another set of walls comes tumbling down.
- As the Holy Spirit filled me, the barriers came tumbling down.
- He watched a huge white mountain collapse and come tumbling down on him.
- One wrong move, we realized with horror, and the doors could come tumbling down.
- The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union.
- Then the stage came tumbling down.
- There is a loud clatter as a stack of circuit boards comes tumbling down.
- A whole range of behaviour is subsumed under the umbrella of bureaucratic self-interest.
- Finally, war served to bring all members of a society, soldier and civilian, under the umbrella of national consciousness.
- Governments also use the more industrially orientated labs under the umbrella of the Fraunhofer society.
- If someone talked to me like that, I would just come unglued.
- When his parents got divorced, his whole world came unglued.
- Robbins, whose analogies tend strongly toward food, explained what happens when something comes unglued.
- What on earth was it about him that he could make her come unglued with just a single look?
- You can turn the Mustang into any bend at any speed and it won't ever come unglued.
- Another day we nearly came unstuck altogether.
- Because many skiers rely on skidding, they come unstuck in deep snow.
- Billy says that he first came unstuck in time in 1944, long before his trip to Tralfamadore.
- But even that achievement is now in danger of coming unstuck, as Larry Elliott points out on page 12.
- He told about having come unstuck in time.
- The layers of secrecy have come unstuck with time.
- This week, however, they came unstuck.
- Where I really came unstuck arguing with von Kranksch was on the subject of crystals.
- Tanning beds came into use around 1979.
- Doors were fitted and it came into use on 7 September.
- Doubtless, this instability will continue as more sophisticated techniques of diagnosis come into use by the medical profession.
- It came into use around the turn of the century.
- The new register comes into use the following February.
- The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use.
- There were many different drugs coming into use.
- Various kinds of minuscule came into use, such as the humanistic and the Carolingian.
- She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs, only to come up against a wall.
- We're determined to take every opportunity that comes our way.
- We were in a couple of games that went right down to the wire.
- In the event the starting line-up went down to the wire.
- It is down to the wire.
- Creativity was coming out of the woodwork.
- There are wallabies crawling out of the woodwork.
- He gave her a child every year, but was never there when it came into the world.
- He looked as if he came into the world fighting.
- Alec Davidson, for example, was one of those who came off worst.