Example sentences of "[vb mod] to come [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been a little funkateer since ‘ 85 , but he used to come around to the Bootsy Collins Rubber Band shows back in ‘ 75 and ‘ 76 . |
| 2 | He used to come over to us a lot at weekends , along with another character called Bob Brown , who lived at Blackton and who was a bachelor brother of my great-aunt 's husband . |
| 3 | ‘ A ’ and the other girls used to come round to the house asking me to do their hair or their eyebrows . |
| 4 | He used to come round to the house , a few years ago , before he took up so much with the Labour Party . " |
| 5 | His friends used to come round to our house and call for him , but Paul just ignored them , ’ said his mother . |
| 6 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 7 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 8 | When I was young she used to come up to my mother 's for a cup o' tea ; and I liked talking to the old lady . |
| 9 | And they used to come up to the maintenance workshop |
| 10 | Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out . |
| 11 | Instead of having they had to come through the Dock Commission all of the men , they wanted so and so men for that boat , they used to come through to me . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh all right , I have n't been inside this house since I used to come here to dances when your father was a boy . |
| 13 | Well , the thing is , Pop Will Eat Itself used to come down to my place when I first had it and absolutely f— the place up . |
| 14 | To get off my frustration I used to come down to the track and run it out . |
| 15 | He used to come down to school in the afternoon sometimes , to stay a while talking generally , and I found his visits very helpful . |
| 16 | And then at nighttime we used to come down to the , if we , if we did n't go in Baths which was smashing , it was absolutely great , had two piers and a , a diving board , er and a deep end and a , and a shallow end for kids . |
| 17 | Well used to come out to Totnes did n't we ? |