Example sentences of "[noun] i come " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I intend writing the story I came here to find . ’ |
| 2 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 3 | In case I came back . ’ |
| 4 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 5 | A COUPLE of weeks ago in the busy London evening rush hour I came across Britain 's hardest-working Royal travelling to another demanding job . |
| 6 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 7 | ‘ As a writer I came to realise the obvious : the subject of the dream is the dreamer , ’ Morrison remarks , as she points out how unwaveringly the subject of whiteness — what it is and what it is n't — preoccupies the American literary imagination ( and , I suspect the European as well ) . |
| 8 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 9 | Of course I came down to earth on my next round . |
| 10 | It seemed like every time I went out to walk the course I came back with wet feet . " |
| 11 | One hot afternoon I came down from my bedroom , after a brief but taxing siesta , to see the Agent pull up in his outlandish Packard . |
| 12 | At the university I came out from my shell . |
| 13 | With lots of luck I came face to face with a round face man in uniform . |
| 14 | The best jumper I came across was the Argentinian , Llanes , who outfoxed me time and again . |
| 15 | No I missed it , there was no beasts in the field I came down . |
| 16 | ‘ American lady , I want my prick in your mouth for two hours : never mind how many times I come . ’ |
| 17 | The number of times I come off this roundabout onto the wrong road , it 's |
| 18 | For if I can do that — if I can get people to begin to comprehend the universality and the depth of our perversion — I would have achieved something rare and precious for the starving and dispossessed two-thirds of mankind ( sic ) from whose ranks I come , and for whose cause I must now fight . ’ |
| 19 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 20 | I mean one Friday I come , I left here about ten to one I went in the house and I went to bed and I was starving and Gordon says oh I 'm hungry I , so I went out straight down the stairs , come back up with a bloody big tray cups of teas now when I , after drinking down here , pasties now what I 'd taken home what I did n't sell here , crisps , sandwiches and a after I 'd ate it I felt so guilty . |
| 21 | Ken I come in , please ? |
| 22 | Highton Highton I came a nice part . |
| 23 | In my first two terms at St. Albans , I came twenty-fourth and twenty-third , but in my third term I came eighteenth . |
| 24 | After the wedding I came to live in Baldersdale , at the next farm to Hannah . |
| 25 | I was allowed to go there on condition I came straight home again every afternoon to do the washing and ironing and to clean the house and cook the supper . ’ |
| 26 | Last winter I came face to face with one on the landing — I do n't know which of us was the more scared . |
| 27 | Each winter I come back , hear underfoot |
| 28 | I assure you that in my professional capacity I come across many jurors who are both indigenous Britons , and quite advanced in years , who do not fit into the ‘ long tradition of honesty and fair-mindedness ’ . |
| 29 | An outspoken individualist , Sandy never left anyone in doubt about his views , and when as a newspaper editor I came under governmental pressure from time to time , Sandy was usually the first to phone his support with disdainful disregard of the fact that the telephones were tapped by the state security police . |
| 30 | Like a fool I came to surprise you , just like I did once before on Brynteg . |