Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [num] " in BNC.

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1 It is much easier just to come along one night and do what everyone else does .
2 You see coal used to come down one incline and the and and it used to knock the empties off , two empties off , you see ?
3 And this man used to go up , do you know I 've heard my father say he 's come up three or four times a week and help him and when they slaughtered the things they used to have the slaughterhouse down the piste years ago , as I 'm talking about sixty , sixty , seventy years ago , sixty years ago , where they used to slaughter the stuff , you see , down the piste and this was the Christmas show this was , all these hindquarters of beef .
4 So , I mean , they was trying to come up one day so I could watch the telly and I really needed to .
5 She has three children , one under the age of one , and has to come up four flights of stairs to her home many times a day .
6 The reflectors , the mean here is at thirteen the average is thirteen they 're all slightly higher , so eighteen to twenty would be a very strong whereas the others have just come out fifteen to seventeen which is strong , you 've actually come out fairly strong there , because the highest score for anything is twenty .
7 I 'd love to come back one day and see how such good youngsters as Simon Brown , Mark Briers , Paul Henderson , Stewart Hutton and John Wood are working out . ’
8 Many of the thousands of youngsters who were at last night 's tie as non-paying guests may have been sufficiently impressed to want to come back one day as paying customers .
9 Donald came down two hours ago , and would you believe it , Bisset will not come to marry them . ’
10 The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed .
11 Now this other girl came down one Saturday morning and we had a letter to say that I 'd passed and I said well , so have I .
12 Now er her husband came down one day and I said to him , what 's your name , and he said Mr
13 he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him
14 Which floor would the elevator ( or lift ) stop at , if it started from street level , went up 4 floors , came down 3 floors , then went up 2 floors again ?
15 Which floor would the elevator ( or lift ) stop at , if it started from street level , went up 4 floors , came down 3 floors , then went up 2 floors again ?
16 He came over one morning when mother was out and Terry had gone to work — just like now . ’
17 Acting in line with his belief that ‘ the people who are closest to the work really do know it better ’ , Mr Welch came up two years ago with an anti-bureaucratic device called ‘ the work-out . ’
18 ‘ Granny came up one day and saw her , and she said , ‘ You ca n't go on like this : I 'm taking the boy back with me . ’
19 Philip guided her by the arm into the front entrance and the hall , where a frightening array of girls in uniforms with white aprons and the cook , whom Eileen had known since she was a child , came up one by one and greeted them .
20 So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for .
21 But after all you came back one day , and it all started again .
22 My father came back one day with an expensive book on birds .
23 Now , when I came back from Stop Hill the other night , must have been , oh must have been Thursday , cos Paul erm , was going out with Alec and then they were going to Alec for dinner and when I came back one of the erm wooden staves was off here , had been prized off .
24 Tobermore came back 11 minutes later to level the score with a brilliant kick by Mark Patterson from the edge of the box to the right corner of the net .
25 My dogs were frantic , and so was I , I hauled one last time , the line came back two centimetres , the hook came free and the dogs roared away .
26 Branwell came back two weeks later , his face white , his clothes dirty .
27 Her mum 's 30-year-old wedding dress , altered to fit Joanne , was ruined at the cleaners and came back two inches shorter than when it went .
28 Tony came back 10 days later looking happier , and reported that he had checked the newspapers regularly and had sent off several applications for jobs .
29 Fellow of Balliol , went to Harvard in his late thirties , came back five years ago .
30 Well er he saw the Professor and paid the fee and that and then came back six =clock at night , he came into the shop .
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