Example sentences of "come [adv prt] to the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 2 | They 're nice old people , and I think it would be good for Mrs Richards to come down to the village more , and be part of Santa Barbara . ’ |
| 3 | So , the only reason for her writing was to say that if he ever did get the chance to come over to the UK again , well , she 'd like — well , it would be nice … |
| 4 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 5 | When Granby House came on to the market early in 1983 , it looked more promising . |
| 6 | We did have an argument that afternoon ; he came on to the set clearly hungover — he had been drinking heavily the day before , disrupting things , disturbing the atmosphere . |
| 7 | As a result , it received several offers of help , including one from the mystery blonde accountant who came down to the Sanctuary twice . |
| 8 | The dust wagon came up to the warehouse today , the usual they 'd got halfway to emptying the first dustbin in the back |
| 9 | Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . |
| 10 | Stephen had a meeting with the shop steward the following morning at 8.30 , and came back to the house afterwards shouting to Victor the butler for strong black coffee . |
| 11 | I think we are coming up to the peaks now . ’ |
| 12 | And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much . |
| 13 | Now those are arteries , that 's the pulmonary artery but it 's coming back to the heart okay , that 's the only time you 're going to find the rule reversed , arteries leave the heart , veins come back to the heart , and the only time that rule is reversed is when you 're linking the heart and the lungs through the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery , however , they are still carrying , the arteries are still carrying oxygen charged blood , yes , because it 's come fresh from the lungs so it 's still carrying nice red lovely oxygenated blood , yes , even though it 's coming back into the heart , that is because it 's come fresh from the lungs and the vein although it 's going in the opposite direction the way you normally expect it , is still carrying the old rotten , you know , used up blood , because it 's going back to the lungs to be recharged , do you understand it alright ? |
| 14 | So colleagues if the moves of motion three one four er would come down and move their motion and with other colleagues if they would come down to the rostrum please it would save time . |
| 15 | If speakers could come down to the front please Colleagues , settle now please . |
| 16 | He does n't come up to the desk straightaway , but gives me a nod and starts looking at the flowers , really closely , like he really knew about them . |
| 17 | ‘ If he calls in again , please tell him I 'll come back to the office tomorrow morning . |
| 18 | You 'd better come back to the farmhouse too , Seb . |
| 19 | Lancashire Region to move and could the other speakers move , and seconders , additional speakers , come down to the rostrum please |
| 20 | Certainly , yes , some some people who live in the flats , come along to the branch quite regularly , and generally the the impression which they give me is that they 'll they will be happier when they 're the flats have been replaced . |
| 21 | And then they come back to the start again . |
| 22 | Alternatively , filmmaking is seen as a sort of relay race in which each member of the creative team has control of certain moments — the producer handing over to the writer , who hands over to the director , who hands over to the lighting cameraman and so on until everything comes back to the producer again . |