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

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1 Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it .
2 Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave .
3 Do you want to come up to the window where you can see ?
4 Do you want to come over to the bungalow and sort this bedroom out or
5 Debbie had said she did n't want to come back to the States .
6 Want to come down to the canteen ?
7 I 'm going to change subjects now , but if you want to come back to the Gulf , do feel free , the lines are open on three double one , one double one , but I in the meantime we 'll take a couple of calls on different subjects erm let's go to June from Shillingford , hello June .
8 The second psychoanalytic message that has come through to the public is its preoccupation with sex .
9 ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’
10 Anyone who wants to come along to the training on Wednesday nights at Keanie Park are more than welcome . ’
11 Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house
12 Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house
13 has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain .
14 Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny .
15 FAR from the crowded Second Division title race , Blackburn goalie Bobby Mimms loves coming back to the peace of his home village in North Yorkshire .
16 ( He says ( Perople like their creature comforts and will enjoy coming back to the hotel )
17 And and and and across the board there has been a cut of er , er of of of just below fifteen per cent , that that the that er er , our cut is forty five per cent , and and I mean , it er , it it it does er er create problems , there 's no doubt about it , and that I I got the letter from er which er , Rod instructed to come along to the department to me yesterday , in fact , I did refer very briefly to it , 'cos I 'm gon na just before the meeting that er er it it sets out saying that it was a very generous set settlement for ninety-three , ninety-four .
18 Never , since he was a child , had he missed coming up to the Foinmen on Beltane .
19 He says Come down to the surgery in the morning .
20 ‘ You 've got to come back to the hospital .
21 So presenting the centre line and okay we 're going to come on to the eye contact as well in a moment , presenting the centre line with eye contact means that it feels much more positive for the audience in terms of the delivery .
22 During the operation , I 'm going to come back to the door in a minute , during the operation which gun were you carrying ?
23 She asked : ‘ Would you like to come up to the top of the house , to my office ?
24 So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people .
25 I 'd like to come back to the notion of self-misdiagnosis later , if I may , possibly at some future session .
26 ‘ I 've been round the instrument circuit from A to Z , Alembic to Zon , and I always seem to come back to the P-bass , always .
27 Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards .
28 Owen never repeated this claim in the pre-Darwinian era , but liberal theologians such as the Oxford mathematician and philosopher Baden Powell began to come around to the idea of ‘ designed evolution ’ during the 1850s .
29 At the congress Carlsson declared that the emergence of a new security system in Europe based on the 1975 Helsinki accords meant that Sweden 's neutrality no longer " bore the same heavy burden " , and the party began to come round to the view of both industry and the two major opposition parties ( M and Fp ) that Sweden should apply for membership of the European Communities ( EC , which it did in July 1991 — see p. 38353 ) .
30 I remember my father used to say that even those experiences that take us out of ourselves — the ‘ mountain-top ’ experiences — can never keep us from having to come down to the valley of ordinary existence .
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