Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] come " in BNC.

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1 It was Neil Spencer , editor of NME , suggesting rather embarrassedly that I come and see him .
2 I could hang on here till she comes back .
3 And she had a cold : she sneezed almost immediately after I came in .
4 They continue to fall away alarmingly when it comes to formal examinations and so decrease their own chances of gaining stimulating and challenging employment .
5 Says his admiring boss Peter Reid : ‘ Mike has done really well since he came in .
6 " I would work much harder if you came now and then so that I could tell you of my progress . "
7 One question of particular importance is whether trusts offered any interpretative advantages : were the jurists generally liable to cavil less and interpret more liberally when they came within sight of a trust ?
8 They glance up dully when we come in .
9 ‘ She was going back here so I came with her . ’
10 The analogy of a gun breaks down badly when we come to consider intermediate targets as shown in the drawing .
11 I know just now when I came in just now you were doing some housework .
12 Third World elites , as a rule , get off lightly when it comes to paying tax — certainly in comparison with their counterparts in the developed world .
13 He finished off quickly as I came in , apologized when he realized it was my pen , and that was an end to it .
14 They had grown so used to her not joining in that they had not really noticed that she had stayed up there when they came down .
15 ‘ I just get out there and it comes about .
16 ‘ You got to keep going when you find 'em , ’ he continued , ‘ the little buggers disappear as fast as they come . ’
17 The dictionary states quite clearly that it comes from the United States .
18 Otherwise , what we 've built here could disappear as quickly as it came . ’
19 Meredith 's brain ticked over rapidly and she came to one undeniable conclusion .
20 One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem .
21 There are blokes crying out there when they come off the pitch , when they 've been substituted .
22 And how many times , on re-entering occupied space , did the phenomena depart as suddenly as they came ?
23 They had n't walked very far when they came to a tiny dirt track off the road .
24 The TV afternoons and the hours went so slow until he came back and turned the lights on .
25 They do n't forget so easily where I come from .
26 Well their Rose , she got a bit on the once when she went up there and she come over here she said to us would we take it up and change .
27 But yeah he probably come past no he probably went up there as we come down that corner by erm Ipsleigh and when they come back we 'd probably gotten here by then .
28 Whilst Sarah Hare left a perfect template for a gentlewoman 's funeral , Hannah Deane of High Ongar , Essex , went even further when it came to the specification for her coffin .
29 Well , well no , no because it was then about , that 's what I 'm is , then four o'clock you see , so I mean I knew I would n't make it anyway that 's why I thought I 'd better ring cos the job that we finished was half past three so I thought well even if I come home I shall be late even if I do n't get changed and washed or anything .
30 Town planning needs and traffic needs clash most openly when it comes to squares and junctions , which is why the town at that point must reflect the needs of planning and give least consideration to the needs of traffic .
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