Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But I mean we also , we , I mean we 're providing a service for them to allow them to come on off the street , use the bus , right , but at the same time were trying to provide services for them because one of the things that came out in a consultation was , young people did n't feel that there was enough information for them in the town . |
2 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
3 | In their early twenties they had a group called the Actors and RCA records asked them to come in for a meeting . |
4 | I met Charlie , and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service . |
5 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
6 | When I came round from the chloroform I was in bed . |
7 | ‘ When I came round after the operation I asked the doctors if they would let me have the screws . |
8 | I came up into the air gasping deeply , panting , aching lungs swelling , feeling a rush of suppressed terror , clinging onto the curtain in a shaky state . |
9 | ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’ |
10 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
11 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
12 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
13 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
14 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
15 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
16 | Eventually , after canvassing ideas from virtually everyone in the department , I came up with a design , using egg boxes and colanders which Blue Peter decided to use . |
17 | I came up with the idea of having a sale . |
18 | You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one . |
19 | Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap . |
20 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
21 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
22 | ‘ Childbirth ’ our local priest called it , but I did n't really understand what he was on about until several years later when I came up against the problem again . |
23 | Er you sent me on I 'm gon na go , and I came up before the receptionist . |
24 | I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class . |
25 | A passion born of the habit I came by as a girl at school . |
26 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
27 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
28 | ‘ I came in through the door . ’ |
29 | On Saturday 4 June , I came in from a morning 's canvassing in Sutton Coldfield to find an urgent message to call Conservative Central Office . |
30 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |