Example sentences of "and come [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn . |
| 2 | As was proved when , without replying to her question about the interview , he left the driver 's seat and came round to the passenger 's door . |
| 3 | They boy ignored him , though , and came up to the wood . |
| 4 | They passed below them , into the narrower part of the field between the two copses , and it was not until Acorn had been sent half-way down the slope to attract their attention that they turned and came up to the ditch . |
| 5 | The grass was lush green and came up to the st'lyan 's hocks . |
| 6 | Mavis laid her knitting aside and came over to the bed , where , to my redoubled annoyance , she sat down and took my hands . |
| 7 | The green men in their cloaks of leaves and branches then discovered them , and came down to the beach and circled Dulé and his companions where they lay prone , and shook their fronds and squatted on their haunches and kicked their legs and tossed their heads and slapped palm to thigh , in order to rally them and send them off again ; pouring spirits and water into their faces to invigorate them , beating out a rhythm with their feet . |
| 8 | About a week later , I finished work early one day and came back to the house . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Then he lost his nerve and rushed out of the flat and came back to the house to find me . ’ |
| 11 | Suddenly , to her relief , the telephone rang , Joanna picked it up , wrote down the message , and came back to the table , looking elated . |
| 12 | She headed away into tall grass , hid the baby and came back to the boat for the return trip to Tiger Haven . |
| 13 | ‘ One spring I left my noviciate and came back to the farm . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , plenty of new flats are being built and coming on to the market : developers have rushed to get their projects completed in the hope of selling before demand dried up . |
| 15 | And coming round to the south . |
| 16 | She was wasting her breath , she saw , for Ven was already out of the car and coming round to the passenger door . |
| 17 | Sean ( Being really sad and coming in to the library on a sunday to do some work ) |
| 18 | Listen , have you got to stay on at the track , or is it possible for you to leave and come back to the hotel ? ’ |
| 19 | Sam , you often come over to England , so why not bring Anna next time , and come up to the Midlands ? ’ |
| 20 | And come back to the Vicarage and have tea with me . |
| 21 | However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ . |
| 22 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |