Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This was the essence of the problem : the press could only be managed by someone who knew their methods and who would not expect them to come round to Central Office to search for news .
2 Erm and I came up with this bit , sort of the middle bit , national curriculum levels would be er your own thing right ?
3 I came in to this building last year I 've got people sitting here who 've realised it was n't a happy place to be I found it quite difficult .
4 Twice I came off at that spot .
5 ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own .
6 I lived with my father , then when my father died I came back to this country .
7 I tell you why I get up , I get up because I came back from that conference .
8 I came out without any money .
9 Then , in a blink , the pictures of Mum and Mrs Dinwiddie and the sea of mud vanished , and I came out of that station floating six inches above the ground .
10 I came out of slippered retirement and enjoyed a late bonus by visiting the old familiar places once again — but this time with a master cameraman .
11 The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see
12 I come up to that cow upstairs alright , alright
13 anyway when I come back in one day , she says to me , she says listen to this , a neighbour were sat here
14 Every time I come out with this lot it 's like being back at school .
15 When it is finished , I want you to come around behind that curtain and up onto the stage .
16 Yes , it 's Christmas time and once again ACCOUNTANCYis looking for the wits among you to come up with this year 's Christmas cartoon caption .
17 My father had another , everything was okay if you came out at any time after the thirty first of March , look all I 'm doing now is I was giving back , er taking my position as the company director , getting a salary off the rent in my farms and small holdings and my shares in shipping .
18 ‘ Because when you came out of that theatre party , despite singing our song so wonderfully , you looked at me as if you did n't know me . ’
19 after you came back from military service did you carry on working art ?
20 But I , I liked the the first outfit she came on with that sash wrapped round her
21 cooking the tea , I remember it was fish fingers and chips I was doing and er the dam lights all went out , you were only little and erm Lynsey er , she came round from next door because she started cooking her chips
22 She did n't like the answer she came up with one bit , but she put it nevertheless to Charity , very quietly .
23 ‘ She was however keen to see her grand-daughters at Christmas and she came up with this solution . ’
24 She came down with this summer flu everyone 's getting and went home before I got in .
25 She came down to Aberconwy School where we all were and said she wanted all the mothers and babies to stay with her , ’ said Tracey Parker .
26 Would you come over to that bench over there .
27 For whatever reason , what , ca can you come up with another version of the fountains of the deep .
28 Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah
29 You know , very often when you go from one country to another you go through an area of re , what is called no man 's land , you come through from one frontier and then you 've got a distance and you come to the next frontier that does n't exist as far as accepting or rejecting Christ is concerned .
30 If you come up with that sort of material , then the American and English newspapers will publish an interview that I 'll give them ’ .
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