Example sentences of "would come [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Blakey , only a little less sceptical than her husband of this line of talk , nevertheless recalled how Timothy Gedge had affected her when he 'd come on to the telephone with a woman 's voice , and her bewilderment when the silence had first begun in the house .
2 At halftime , he 'd come on to the pitch and give the whole team extra-strong mints , rearrange the tactics , change our positions , tell us we were playing downhill in the second half , tell us that a six-goal deficit was nothing .
3 Go up Road , and from there turn down Follyhouse Lane the continuation of it and you 'd come right to the Dales and nothing at all from there to West Bromwich , and you could see , if you go over one stile from one field then onto another and then brook that now runs through the Road there , that used to be a little country brook that run across the golf course and there was a little stile over it , a little bridge and a stile , then you go straight up to Dells common and not a house in sight .
4 Twice he 'd driven over to see his mother and come back optimistic that she 'd come round to the marriage and visit them one day soon .
5 She had telephoned him as soon as she got home , and he 'd come straight to the villa , arriving in a whirlwind , his personality magnetic as always .
6 It gets more and more embarrassing to watch Dustin Hoffman coughing and limping as if he 'd come straight to the film from a Broadway theatre . ’
7 By now I think mum and dad had gone home but they 'd rang Ian and he 'd come straight to the hospital and sat with me .
8 Then we 'd come back to the digs , wash our hair , have a wash if we were lucky , then on to the theatre .
9 I was starving so I thought I 'd come down to the kitchen .
10 ‘ I 've been hoping you 'd come down to the beach these last three days , ’ he went on .
11 ‘ But I would be obliged if you would come straight to the point , Captain Carew . ’
12 He would come regularly to the rectory now , Lavinia thought .
13 She could in no way be glad that Timothy Gedge would come regularly to the rectory : that prospect was grim .
14 It almost seemed for a moment as if he would come over to the table and speak , but then he turned away , looking rather puzzled and began to order his tea .
15 From the open door of the shed he had a good view of Firelight grazing and she got to know where he was and would come up to the hedge close by and wait for titbits .
16 So colleagues if the moves of motion three one four er would come down and move their motion and with other colleagues if they would come down to the rostrum please it would save time .
17 Okay , if the seconder and additional speakers would come down to the front , please .
18 First of all Birmingham again colleagues , it will be very helpful and will save time if intended speakers would come down to the front
19 And whilst Alan 's coming to the rostrum colleagues , can the , the movers from London of motion one five three , one five six er , London again , one six three , Birmingham , if they would come down to the front and also it would be very helpful colleagues , if regions , if regions have indicated a speaker on the special report , if those colleagues could come down as well it would be helpful .
20 Other movers , if they would come down to the front , it would assist .
21 I now call composite motion twelve to move by London Region , Liverpool Region to second and colleagues it would be helpful if the movers and the seconders of all the other motions would come down to the front .
22 But then if that not conceded or protest not sus sustained , that would the letter would come back to the Official letter would come back to the branch secretary you see , and he would look at it , and he would put it to his branch and if they wanted to go further , that went to Euston House , the N U R headquarters , Euston House .
23 For years I would come back to the store and walk over to where they were .
24 It was held that he had an intention permanently to deprive because he intended to sell them irrespective of the Revenue 's rights , despite the fact that the vouchers would come back to the Revenue .
25 If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train
26 In the mid 1960s a dominant group of Kikuyu , who were close to the Kenyatta family , determined that neither Odinga nor Mboya would come close to the presidency .
27 If , as recent work has suggested ( Ch.1 ) , the sustained growth of population from the doldrums of the fifteenth century began to affect the economy in the early years of the sixteenth century rather than previously , this would come close to the period when the volume of criticism of enclosures became more vocal and more explicit .
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