Example sentences of "[pron] come [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 've done a tabloid internally and they 've asked me to come to take a look at it . |
| 2 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not quite such a coincidence as I seem , ’ she said , ‘ I 've just been reading my uncle 's book on Aurae Phiala , that 's why I came to have a look at the place for myself . |
| 4 | No , I came to get a ticket for the literature festival but it was pouring down so I came to get out of the rain . |
| 5 | Want to go back via erm South , want , see what he 's got , I keep , every time I come have a look |
| 6 | To some extent this emphasized a definition of community care , used particularly in relation to people with mental health problems , which came to mean a form of care which was non-hospital care and therefore included residential care . |
| 7 | When , however , Origen himself came to write a commentary on Matthew 19 : 12 he strenuously opposed a literal exegesis . |
| 8 | It was not , for them , simply a matter of supposing that what held true in some cases would hold in all , but of their coming to see a particular case as an instance of an intuitively recognizable universal truth . |
| 9 | ‘ But what if somebody comes to buy a ticket ? ’ |
| 10 | Oscar Wilde had his Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1895 ) — the original four-act version — fob off the solicitor Gribsby who came to serve a writ on him , with frivolous repartee . |
| 11 | We had in addition to this party , — a doctor coming to visit his mother , who lived in Coll ; a young Englishman with a fishing-rod , who had left a medical practice for a few days , to whip the burns of Coll and breathe the fine air ; a minister 's wife ; a retired minister and his wife , both in delicate health ; the fiscal of Tobermory , who had a farm in Tiree ; the Chief Constable and Sheriff Clerk from Mull , who came to investigate a case of suspected cattle poisoning ; and a young Glasgow teacher , who came to be guest of the Fiscal aforementioned . |
| 12 | He was shot trying to stop some guys who came to steal a lot of our money . |
| 13 | And when you came to find a place to put the television in your living room |
| 14 | HER ROYAL HIGHNESS , Princess Margaret honoured the Queen 's Hotel in Leeds , by choosing to stay at the hotel , when a patron of the Northern Ballet , she came to see a performance of Swan Lake at Leeds Grand Theatre . |
| 15 | He wrote two poems to welcome Princess Marina when she came to open a theatre — the old Vandyck ( now Wickham ) Theatre — with which she was apparently delighted . |
| 16 | After that she came to expect a kiss whenever we met or parted — if we were alone , of course . |
| 17 | And she came to play a significant role in building his career . |
| 18 | She knew all the mothers , and particularly had she come to know a Mrs White . |
| 19 | It 's when you come to do a job like building a fitted wardrobe that you realise that your house is not ‘ true ’ . |
| 20 | It 's okay I mean it it , okay in the parts , but when you come to do a like essays and things about it 's very helpful because of the |
| 21 | When you come to make a recording , do you treat this as an opportunity to synthesise all your learning and experience into the melting pot at one go , or do you still find yourself spontaneously adjusting even in the studio ? |
| 22 | ‘ Astrology is a science , and art comes into it when you come to interpret a chart . |
| 23 | It may be for everyone who comes to buy a ticket , but those who do choose to go are a small minority of the population . |
| 24 | How have we come to teach a paddle stroke which is different from the real stroke , which produces a higher risk of injury ? |
| 25 | Er I hope that makes the matter clear , because when we come to make a decision on this group of amendments , er when I er seek the opinion of the er Committee on my Amendment five , I shall only be seeking agreement to Amendment five and its related amendments er eight and eleven and if the Noble Lord , Lord er if , if the House were er to disagree with my Amendment or if it were to be withdrawn and the Noble Lord , Lord amendment were , were put , I think he would agree that it would only tha that that a decision by the Committee would only relate to the amendments in his name because we have in fact four alternatives before us which we are debating together . |
| 26 | And again , it is a matter of luck which one comes to dominate a population . |
| 27 | When one comes to consider a creation like , for example , Long John Silver , how can the perennial fascination be explained ? |
| 28 | Through the crepuscular afterglow , from behind the marble pineapple , there came skipping a true-light figure . |
| 29 | The Chirwas say they came to see a sick relative . |
| 30 | As such gateways to heaven multiplied , they came to outline a new map of sacred urban topography . |