Example sentences of "[pers pn] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Conroy dearest , go up to Mummy 's room and wait there till I come , and try to pretend that all the dreadful things that have happened are just part of the play . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I come up here every day . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll eat before I come . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , I come from Lochaber , and the Lochaber people , if they were here , would be at one with the people of Breadalbane . |
| 5 | ‘ I come to the beach every week . |
| 6 | I walk up all the escalators I come across . |
| 7 | The input/central distinction is something on which I shall be heavily reliant when I come to my positive thesis . |
| 8 | Harriet comments , ‘ When I come to your wedding in the slums of Brooklyn you can do me the honours . ’ |
| 9 | Where I come from , if we see a pigeon we throw a stone at it . |
| 10 | Quite often while restoring antique pieces , I come across filled-in mortises or misplaced detail — evidence that they too had ruined mornings . |
| 11 | It seems that every time I come back from a big disappointment I win . ’ |
| 12 | I come out pretty well as a prophet . ’ |
| 13 | See , when I come in here on a night , it 's not the IRA I 'm worried about , it 's them upstairs . |
| 14 | Say I was dealing with one of our gougers , I come down to [ his ] level . |
| 15 | I come out to meet you half way . |
| 16 | I come now to what will be the first of many simplicities which I shall offer to you this afternoon ; for I am sure you already realise from what you know of my speakings and writings — and it will be all the more painfully obvious in half an hour 's time — that I am incurably simpliste . |
| 17 | Some usherettes could n't carry the icecream trays : ‘ I ca n't do it , Mr Norden , I come over funny if I walk backwards . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I come nearly every evening for the post . |
| 19 | I come back with an armful of dead birch to find Tony digging films out of a snowdrift near the tent . |
| 20 | And it provides a cover for racist fantasies such as these comments of primary school teachers — ‘ Southall stinks of curry ’ or ‘ I am always sneezing when I come here . |
| 21 | I come in late , did n't I , so I 've got lee-way to make up ? ’ |
| 22 | I feel exactly as if I were having a very prolonged dream but every time I come out of it I 'm so tired I fall back into it again . |
| 23 | I was nearly home and I come over queer . |
| 24 | Charlie 'd said he wanted to phone Lilian and when I come back over the road he was in a phone box . |
| 25 | He lets me look at them when I come to see him . |
| 26 | When I come back Mr Jackson is trying to shut my suitcase . |
| 27 | I 'm pretty confused when I come out the other end . |
| 28 | Even though I come from Cuba and have naturally dark skin , it 's very dry so I always carry my Must de Cartier body lotion with me . |
| 29 | ‘ When I come to think about it afterwards , I do n't know quite what he was after . ’ |
| 30 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |