Example sentences of "come [adv] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words have really come home to me this week . |
| 2 | I had a young fellow come up to me one day — he had eighteen months ' service . |
| 3 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 4 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 5 | This is so ingrained and so influential , I shall have occasion to come back to it many times . |
| 6 | To come closer to our present concern , there is no more hope for the idea that a certain determinism is false because we do not aspire to prove it , but rather proceed in several alternative ways , including probabilistic ways , on the assumption of its truth . |
| 7 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 8 | But there was no light in the eyes of the girl that came home to me that night . |
| 9 | I said , oh I lo I love it , I lo , I said I know it sounds awful thought no more and then Shirley said to me when she 'd gone she said , she came up to me one day she said I wish to God he 'd stop that bloody noise , this time ! |
| 10 | When I came back to him five minutes later he 'd written his first two lines . |
| 11 | When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better . |
| 12 | After modulating through the pastel palette , kitchen equipment came back to its original key — exciting , brilliant white — with a square , boxy outline . |
| 13 | I came back to my earlier proposition . |
| 14 | But if he was caught with the with the crown , by his opponents before he circled them and came back to his own allies … then he had to go outside the camp , and he was called a [ maggot ! ] . |
| 15 | Dickens ' timeless story , now coming up to its 146th Christmas , has been adapted with affection by David Holman and directed with dash by Gwenda Hughes . |
| 16 | And then David Evans coming up to me last month and actually admitting it had changed him , that evening . ) |
| 17 | Well that would certainly be my favourite , we we 'll be coming up to our hundredth anniversary are n't we fairly soon ? |
| 18 | Dad had been improving daily — he was eating well , in good spirits and coming up to his eightieth birthday . |
| 19 | He was coming up to his twenty-seventh birthday and his face had already acquired some of the lived-in look that became one of his characteristics later in his career . |
| 20 | Mozart was then coming up to his eighteenth birthday , but already a mature master , and No 29 is both a great symphony and an enchantingly beautiful one . |
| 21 | No , you 're just coming up to your first round . |
| 22 | I was coming up to my eleven hours — we 're not supposed to drive for more than eleven hours — and I went in and there was Charlie Hatton . |
| 23 | I was going to ask Jenette anyway , as it was coming up to my 40th birthday . ’ |
| 24 | The words stuck in Folly 's mind , coming back to her next morning as she sat at the Rose Bowl 's work-table , preparing roses for conditioning by crushing the tips of their stems with a heavy mallet . |
| 25 | A lot of these breeds come from Britain ; they are mostly British , and when you think of seeing the mull , as we do around the countryside , coming back to their proper standard , it gives me considerable pleasure . |
| 26 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 27 | But in spite of the bumps in the beginning he kept coming back to my little home studio and that 's how the second half of our lives together began . |
| 28 | Erm we we aim to get as much development in our area as possible and coming back to your first question this afternoon , I I do n't really se any problem with the North Yorkshire proposals , that 's the middle range . |
| 29 | L coming back to your other point I mean your saying you could not physically , or you would not wish to accommodate , let me put it that way , you would not wish to accommodate anything more than is now you 're you 're making provision for within the South Ryedale local plan |
| 30 | He had no track record himself in combat and the men he was to lead in battle were a pretty tough crowd , all of them individualists and likely to be highly critical of any officer who did not come up to their own standards . |