Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Duncan Paterson , the selection convenor , came on to say that I had better get myself over to Murrayfield as soon as I could ! |
| 2 | Then Keith Hopper came on to say that at his place too the price had gone up 3p . |
| 3 | But Aherne , on the bench , came on to replace his friend and rival in the Irish victory . |
| 4 | Garrick Morgan and Warwick Waugh were well matched by the Monmouthshire pair of Tony Rees and Mike Voyle yesterday , and the experienced Rod McCall made little difference when he came on to replace Morgan . |
| 5 | This means that tour captain Gavin Hastings will be half a game ahead of his colleagues , as he came on to replace Hunter against North Auckland in Whangarei . |
| 6 | He wisely asked for the downward transition after a circuit and the mare came down to trot , threw her head up briefly and then rounded again . |
| 7 | The lady prioress , a pure wool cloak wrapped around her , came down to bid us adieu . |
| 8 | ‘ Before the hearing I had witnesses lined up , but they never came down to interview either me , my son Mark or the witnesses , ’ said Hoad yesterday . |
| 9 | Shelley stood watching him for a while before he noticed her , and he came down to greet her . |
| 10 | Elizabeth came down to say that the bed was warm , so Jonadab and his younger son helped George upstairs . |
| 11 | Just then the signalman came down to say the King had died . |
| 12 | ‘ The Scotch lassies came down to do the herring for the barrel processing , the same as the Dutch , the pickle processing , and some splitting for kippers in the fish-houses . |
| 13 | A chapter from Harrogate came down to do battle in Bedale . |
| 14 | The very word ‘ Somerset ’ ( Sumorsaetan ) is Anglo-Saxon , possibly meaning ‘ summer dwellers ’ , men who came down to graze the levels in summer-time . |
| 15 | SPLASH came down to view Europe 's best after the European Championships at Warrington . |
| 16 | When she tugged the chain ( which had a pottery handle bluntly instructing her to ‘ PULL ’ on it ) , there was a raucous , metallic clanking fit to wake the whole house , but not a trickle of water came down to flush the bowl . |
| 17 | He came down to join her on the floor . |
| 18 | One night Major , Deekie as he was known , came down to inspect and the young chappy who was on guard , he challenged him properly er before he allowed him to advance towards him but after he 'd advanced toward him and he 'd been recognized Major says is the rifle alright ? |
| 19 | And so , when the sun 's rage had died away , they finished celebrating their wedding feast with great joy , and the sun himself came down to give away his little cousin to her bridegroom . |
| 20 | When the ambulance arrived , Sister Cooney came down to see him off . |
| 21 | He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’ |
| 22 | Maybe it 's time you came down to see what 's going on at Theatre in the Mill . |
| 23 | I almost came down to see if anything was wrong . ’ |
| 24 | To D'Arcy 's surprise it was Nadirpur who answered the entry phone , and again the man himself who came down to let them in . |
| 25 | from the upper slope came down to ask us if |
| 26 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 27 | I would have dallied longer but the venerable Bere came down to wish us farewell . |
| 28 | Mary 's fiancé , Johnny , who was a sergeant motor mechanic on one of the bomber air fields in Yorkshire , came down to visit her and took us all out for a drink one evening . |
| 29 | As they climbed so the flak followed them ; as they dived so it came down to harry them . |
| 30 | After the catch had been landed at East London , the curator of the small local museum , Miss Courtenay-Latimer , came down to look it over . |