Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] to come " in BNC.

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1 It 's the difference between the person who knocks you down to take your purse and the person who knocks him down to come to your rescue . ’
2 But we want everybody else to come down .
3 She told me not to come round she did !
4 He advised them not to come into the off-licence with him .
5 ‘ I told you not to come in here again . ’
6 But Mr Quatt only grasped her arm , uttering in an urgent undervoice , ‘ I told you not to come , Araminta .
7 I told you not to come down those blasted stairs on your own . ’
8 ‘ I told you never to come here ! ’
9 Remember a couple of weeks ago when you were taking the piss out of him for being scruffy , you told him not to come in again unless he was wearing a tie .
10 Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house .
11 He chased the customer down the road and told him never to come in the shop again — that was the way Ron was !
12 ‘ I asked you not to come , ’ Kopyion said .
13 ‘ The theatre have told me not to come back , and Mrs Seager wo n't let us stay on . ’
14 Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists .
15 it must have been Thursday because I did n't want him to come , I said to Jim , tell him not to come we 'll just turn the whole lot off .
16 Again the policeman ordered her sharply to come with him .
17 and invite us urgently to come , with our films , to meet their people .
18 I only wondered because I 've got to go out later , I need to get somebody else to come in and , and be here but if I think it 's only going to be about that .
19 He had put in an appearance , perforce , at the ceremony at the Tower , to appoint his proctors , but returned to Chester as soon as he decently could , and had not left it again to come to the council at his own manor of Kennington , sending only one of his esquires with a report on the situation — admittedly an admirably full and expert report — to lay before the assembly .
20 I think from what I 've heard , every shift had its own little methods of trying to turn people away or advising them not to come in .
21 ‘ I shall have to ask you not to come to the wardroom for some time after they come .
22 Now Daniel was difficult , telling her not to come to the hospital , where he was to be Father Christmas in the children 's ward .
23 I think really if you 're doing that , you should ask somebody else to come and
24 Pat said , carefully , " He asked me to tell you not to come down . "
25 ‘ In that case I must ask you both to come down to the station with me .
26 But we could get somebody who knows something about to come and advise .
27 Amy wo n't do it and I ca n't find anyone even to come in and keep it tidy . ’
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