Example sentences of "come [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the rest of his peers , Newton 's signings have come through his own personal network . |
| 2 | ‘ I found Tobermory sleeping in the smoking-room , and called out to him to come for his tea . |
| 3 | He called his officers to come aboard his ship . |
| 4 | He had come for his own ends to this island , and used it . |
| 5 | The other three have not come for his sake . |
| 6 | The Maggot had played American football until he had come off his Harley-Davidson at eighty miles an hour and permanently damaged his left knee . |
| 7 | He had come off his motor-bike . |
| 8 | Mark Gill picked up the ball in the middle of the Park and , with the Portadown defence spreadeagled and offering no challenge , he calmly lobbed it over their heads and also that of Magee who had come off his line . |
| 9 | A boy has come off his motor-cycle at the roundabout outside the main gates . |
| 10 | to come as his wife . |
| 11 | ( The education of Dustin towards some understanding of feminism , even though mainly in theory rather than in practice , was only to come after his divorce , the making of Kramer vs Kramer and Tootsie , and marriage to a woman who did not put his ideas to the test . ) |
| 12 | He has to come of his own free will . |
| 13 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 14 | It was his great satisfaction in retirement to know that he was held in deep affection by many hundreds of students who were fortunate enough to come under his caring influence . ’ |
| 15 | That case involved a solicitor who was a salaried partner in the first of the firms involved in the case and an employee in sole charge of a branch office of the other firm giving undertakings to a bank to pay over certain funds which were shortly due to come under his firm 's control to the credit of individuals who were seeking loans from that bank , the undertakings being accepted as security for the loans . |
| 16 | The reason for the exultation , the explanation of how this sense of craving had been mollified and a sense of sexual peace bestowed on the lyrics was simple : Marianne had come into his arms ; that golden apparition of loveliness , that lithe , sensuous , intelligent being of intuition and sympathy ; a gift of the gods to rank — and outrank — anything so far told in the surrounding mythology of his adopted Greek homeland ! |
| 17 | She had declared that Edwin must henceforward run the Ashwell estates , as if he had already come into his inheritance . |
| 18 | Edouard could see the pleading expression come into his eyes , and the desperation for approval . |
| 19 | Rufus , yes , and Shiva sometimes and Shiva with Vivien , but it was a year since Zosie had come into his sleep and materialized before him . |
| 20 | If she had come into his mind he had operated his cancelling switch as he did when any of the denizens of Ecalpemos strayed into his thoughts . |
| 21 | Between the date of Meehan 's conviction and his appeal a month later , Nicky told me , he had an astonishing piece of luck in that there had come into his possession a tape-recording of an interview with Griffiths taken some time previously for a programme the BBC had made at Gartree prison . |
| 22 | A few lines earlier ‘ wonder ’ has come into his eyes at the mention of Lothlórien . |
| 23 | The notoriously media-shy financier has come into his own in the last ten years as one of the most successful behind-the-scenes advisors in the British art world . |
| 24 | In other words , once the magazine has come into his possession , the man as it were acquires the right to treat the images on its pages in whichever way he chooses . |
| 25 | Furthermore , in an attempt to reward men for military service and to encourage others to serve in France , Henry had pursued a policy of granting lands and titles which had come into his hands , thereby creating an important interest , other than his own , in the extension and maintenance of the conquest . |
| 26 | Even before Chris had unfolded the note he had looked at Joe and some colour had come into his pale face . |
| 27 | On the other hand , in the Spycatcher case Lord Goff decided that Peter Wright had a lifelong duty not to disclose confidential information that had come into his possession as an officer of the Secret Service . |
| 28 | Failure to think positively means that negative thoughts have come into his mind . |
| 29 | In fact — ’ an ominous gleam had come into his dark gaze ‘ — after avoiding the issue these last few days , I 'm tired of prevaricating . |
| 30 | An undue pressure of interest had come into his tone ( almost as if he were interested in the position himself ) , but Mrs Seymour-Strachey did not notice . |