Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] we come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We returned to the car and drove on until we came to a small wooden bridge spanning a rivulet of water coming from a waterfall not far up the hillside behind . |
| 2 | ‘ She was tired and sleepy but soon woke up when we came to her side . |
| 3 | There was you know little firms like that and yet everybody was in , nobody nobody would ever try and er and er and er and escape paying their contribution , but there was a law you could n't join a union till you were sixteen , that was the law then in then , but er when this strike came back and we came on strike in December , er we lads who was under age joined the union , they give us all six bob a week , the union did . |
| 4 | And there it was , in the late nineties , he was adding up his pence and his shillings and the odd pound or two here and there , these were his costs of making the pictures that he was making in those days , and then when you turned over and we came to nineteen hundred , nineteen hundred and one , nineteen hundred and two , erm the figures had broadened and under the pounds into three figures and then into four . |
| 5 | Our conclusions for what they are worth are set out and we come to a figure of about forty five thousand . |
| 6 | ‘ Someone could have been hiding here when we came into the church earlier today . |