Example sentences of "came [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
2 | See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’ |
3 | He came to see me after the performance — several times , in fact . ’ |
4 | Camino came to see me in the bank and asked if the village girls would be prepared to collect food and take it on their bicycles to the prisoners . |
5 | Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion . |
6 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |
7 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
8 | Once again Abbot Bere came to greet us in the guest house , accompanied by a monk who had been absent at our earlier meeting . |
9 | Many , however , came to accept it in the context of their hopes for future labour success : capitalist bureaucracy was undesirable , but when labour came to dominate Parliament , the bureaucracy would act in sympathy with the needs and condition of the working class and would no longer be regarded as an alien intrusion . |
10 | ‘ Well , Dacre came to find me for the purpose of asking my permission to address you , ’ said Kirtlington . |
11 | Rather more , including Pike , came to shake me by the hand and ask me detailed and unanswerable questions about the nature of the extraterrestrials who had landed in the Wimbledon area . |
12 | One of the cats came to meet her in the wood and accompanied her back into the house . |
13 | Tremayne came to collect me from the hospital afterwards and told me on the way to Shellerton that Mackie had got through the court ordeal bravely . |
14 | She got the reel of film through customs without any trouble , and a man came to collect it at the hotel . |
15 | In two long strides , Guy abandoned his leaning position by the fireplace and came to take her by the shoulders , shaking her roughly . |
16 | Eventually a man from the tower arrived , and a little bus came to take us to the aircraft . |
17 | ‘ He came to tell us about the arrangements , it was n't very well organised |
18 | It is common to find gaps when nothing is recorded , blank spaces where the minister has forgotten a name when he came to register it after the event , repetitions , erasures and insertions . |