Example sentences of "he come [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 2 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 3 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 4 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 5 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 6 | Then right at the end of the interview , he comes back to the fundamental question about himself — what is on offer . |