Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table . |
| 2 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
| 3 | When Helen came in to help with the spaying operation she looked rather nervous . |
| 4 | Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports . |
| 5 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 6 | Earlier this season , Haslemere might have collapsed at this stage , but they came back to equalise with the best goal of the game . |
| 7 | It is a curious miscellany , where photographs of his early ballets are mixed in with family snap-shots , pictures of his friends , souvenirs of journeys , Christmas and other greetings , a book of clothing coupons from the days of rationing , costume drawings and various illustrations cut from magazines , including a feature on Roland Petit 's ballet Carmen and examples of the ‘ new look ’ in women 's clothes when long skirts came back to fashion for the first time since the war ; he proposed a ballet about that , but it was rejected . |
| 8 | I just hoped that Tom would feel better about the situation when he came back to work in the New Year . |
| 9 | Am I glad we came out to work for the entire season , Rosie ! |
| 10 | He 's the chief executive of the one of the biggest advertising agencies in the country , he 's coming in to talk about the thirty something phenomena here in the nineties now . |
| 11 | It was like coming in to land on the wrinkled hide of some sleeping behemoth . |
| 12 | There were the people coming in to shuffle through the little magazines , Zen Buddhism , Burroughs , Ginsberg , Nuttall , New Departures , Circuit , four letter words , and Indian music . |
| 13 | He did , however , come back to ride in the later races . |
| 14 | — When Manjiku comes , she shuts her eyes and lets herself fall down his throat past the barbed teeth and come down to land in the foul bilgewater in his gut . |
| 15 | After five sentences , stop and pause , take a deep breath , look out of the window , then come back to work on the next five sentences . |