Sentences with phrase «came by»

They go to bed, and next day, while EVERYONE was sleeping, Santa came by, ate the cookies, drank the milk, and left them tons of toys... Proof!

The 26 - year - old rocker has a reputation for being an uncommonly nice guy, and it's easy to see how he came by it.

I go with Sir Fredrick Hoyle who believes life came by an intelligent deliberate act.

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ» (John 1:17).

I came by it in a very weird way.

I am so glad I came by to read your post!

De-dup any records of leads who came by too many times for the free t - shirt.

The biggest change in my investment philosophy this year came by way of the cannabis investment craze.

Well, they looked at their initial numbers and saw that approximately 80 percent of new users came by referral from current users.

On this episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, analyst Rich Greenfield came by the studio to talk about what an industry analyst actually does all day.

However, growth came by the narrowest of margins as Wall Street tempered its...

Warnings came by way of Instagram, Twitter, email, and phone.

«Sumner came by the MTV office with shaving cream in his ear and took a look around and decided he liked what we had.»

«None of my inventions came by accident.

Clavier came by our office studio to talk about the state of angel investing.

And two hours later I came by and those two guys were there painting away.

The Freys came by their interest in teaching honestly.

I could have tripped the patrols that came by.»

In this real life deus ex machina, the unexpected, if not entirely unforeseeable evidence that led directly to the arrest of the 72 - year - old Vietnam veteran came by way of a relative's DNA submitted to a genealogy website.

Assange has made a point of comparing his organization to traditional media outlets, saying in a recent opinion piece in the Post that his motive «is identical to that claimed by the New York Times and the Post — to publish newsworthy content,» and that WikiLeaks publishes material «irrespective of whether sources came by that truth legally or have the right to release it.»

At my first show in Las Vegas, Target buyers came by, looked at the product, and asked for a meeting.

My daughter Zoë and her mother came by, and we weren't the only family there, by any stretch.

A few weeks later, he says, Tsampalieros came by his office and announced Cara planned to acquire control.

«He sent over his head of manufacturing, his head of branding sales, anybody that came by his booth that he felt could be helpful to us,» said Prince.

Success came by pitching with an integrated team of its agencies led by KBS+P Canada and Veritas Communications.

Every time he came by, he'd gesture at the box and crack a new joke about how odd it was that I enjoyed fishing.

Someone objected and the bucket was left near the podium and people came by in single file to cast their vote.

Mauchly came by one Saturday with a bottle of apricot brandy to keep them fortified.

Since @pipandnut came by with breakfast this morning, we'll be skipping lunch... #naturalnuttiness #coffee #nomnom pic.twitter.com/yrh4fCyl 0c

It's a much shorter run than Elton's John's farewell tour which is expected to include 300 shows across several years, which may also make tickets a little harder to come by.

«Solid growth stories are hard to come by, and when you find them, you need to hang on for the ride,» Cramer said.

In a world where brand loyalty is increasingly hard to come by, especially for consumer - facing companies like Procter & Gamble or Coca - Cola, Apple's burgeoning razor - razorblade model has power, he said.

«Tried this place based on the reviews and the fact that they had zeppoles (sic) on the menu, which you don't come by often.

A trim long - distance runner and father of three, Marcus Gillam comes by his building ways honestly: his father, Keith, founded Vanbots, which was a construction powerhouse in the Greater Toronto Area from the 1970s to the late 2000s.

That liberty can be difficult to come by at large corporations where the name of the game is to not rock the boat or do anything that might put existing revenue streams at risk.

The catch: Jobs aren't easy to come by in St. Kitts and Nevis and living costs are about the same as in the United States, so experts say the island may be more suited for retirees than working expats.

As any direct marketer worth her salt will tell you, the value of your «house list» comes by gathering information about them, and giving them a strategically mapped out experience to get them to buy.

Reliable housing market statistics are hard to come by, but a number of private surveys of home prices in various cities now suggest at least a halt to the 20 % annual increases, and in some cases precipitous drops.

Smart, hardworking, focused and good - natured employees are hard to come by and even harder to keep.

As more companies have shifted a larger share of their budgets online, discounts have become hard to come by.

Moving forward, seed rounds will be increasingly challenging as many angel and seed investors close up shop and capital becomes a little bit harder to come by.

You should be prepared for the fact that loans won't necessarily be easy to come by.

Tough to come by unless you've had huge success.

And if you keep Saturday shop hours, you can be sure you will have a group of enthusiasts coming by to talk all things cycling.

From Travis Kalanick and Martin Shkreli to insult - hurling world leaders and creeper VC's, examples of boorish behavior are not at all hard to come by at the moment.

Consensus on the economy is hard to come by at the best of times, but these days, the difference of opinion seems especially pronounced.

Home equity loans are a popular financing device for new business owners because there's often substantial equity tied up in a home, and the loans are easy to come by.

No matter where you are, capital is hard to come by — and it's really hard to come by in the suburbs of a mid-sized metropolitan area like St. Louis.

An estimated 90 percent of US businesses are family owned and, although data is hard to come by, that means that many of the 4.3 million small businesses that closed last year were family businesses, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Lead generation ideas can be hard to come by unless you are regularly in the habit of brainstorming.