Example sentences of "come [adv prt] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had come on to Benedict 's from an interview with her bank manager . |
| 2 | Besides , it had come on to rain , and the prospect of arriving home soaking wet to find my housemates Trisha and Brian curled up in a post-coital stupor in front of the TV was more than I could bear , so I swallowed my pride and went back inside . |
| 3 | There is another possibility that they have n't mentioned because the book has n't come on to deal with it yet , but you should know what it is . |
| 4 | In tracing the antiquity of Langridge we find that this manor has come down to Robin Wood via Henry Golding , Barber , Leveson , Whornes , Watson , Melford and Roger Bavent who held it with John de Langereche and finally back to Adam de Bavent during the reign of Edward I. Robin Wood died 14th July 1738 and is buried in Hailing Church . |
| 5 | Just two years later , rates had come down to $1.57/word . |
| 6 | He related how he had come down to London and systematically searched through the various agencies that might have employed Elsie , how he had tracked down Mrs Wilson and had gone to see her . |
| 7 | Some months later , when she judged that things would have quietened down , she had come down to London and had set about re-establishing her business . |
| 8 | And now you 've come down to London with no accommodation apart from that grotty little hotel , and signed a lease on a shop you 've never seen before , with no independent survey , no up-to-date trading figures and no solicitor to check the terms of the agreement ? ’ |
| 9 | I wo n't be the only person from East Anglian that 's come down to London over the weekend to shop , to stay with relatives or friends and take advantage of London 's shopping . |
| 10 | It has come down to personalities and Julia is very disturbed by it all . |
| 11 | In contrast to the costly and sophisticated technology employed by the major companies were simple but effective ‘ home studios ’ costing under £1,000 by 1985 , the average price of four-track recording machines had come down to £500 and over 20,000 had been sold in Britain . |
| 12 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 13 | With a little sigh , a feeling of having come down to earth again , Merrill went to find Richard . |
| 14 | Almost dancing on air , Laura had barely come down to earth when she found herself sitting beside him in a small riverside restaurant . |
| 15 | ‘ I was very happy when I learned I had got a place at Oxford and my mum still has n't come down to earth yet . |
| 16 | I do n't think I 've come down to earth since the day I met her . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 18 | Why not come along to Saughton Sports Centre where the ladies running club meets every Tuesday from 7–8 pm . |
| 19 | one of Mrs Tibbs 's boarders , ‘ an Irishman recently imported ’ who was ‘ in a perfectly wild state ; and had come over to England to be an apothecary , a clerk in a government office , an actor , a reporter , or anything else that turned up — he was not particular ’ . |
| 20 | Janina 's father was a Polish Jew who had come over to Britain to fight in the war . |
| 21 | The prince had come over to London to be married — from the house of Anna 's sister who was settled there — he hated every minute of it . |
| 22 | We could have come over to Bruges in the evening and dined together at the Duc de Bourgogne . ’ |
| 23 | But when a High King or Queen is born , they have always come up to Tara 's gates , and sung him — or her — into the world . |
| 24 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
| 25 | My father come up to school , he come up there on a bike to see the schoolmaster and get me out to get a load of hay home . |
| 26 | ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs . |
| 27 | Although Fletcher admitted that England have not come up to standard over the last three months , he also believes that a poor itinerary and a lack of turning pitches in English domestic cricket is largely to blame for the string of dismal performances . |
| 28 | Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out . |
| 29 | Why else had he come up to Tucker 's for fags when he could have got them closer to home ? |
| 30 | The only way to town is come up to way |