Example sentences of "[noun prp] came [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madeleine came up to see me last Monday for a couple of days and arrived with a sore throat too , so she had a well deserved rest after the excesses of their very social Christmas and life and also encouraged me , the weather and the throats keeping us indoors , to do some MUCH needed turning out . |
| 2 | When the ambulance arrived , Sister Cooney came down to see him off . |
| 3 | Schinkel came specially to see the Docks , and did not even like Nash 's Regent Street . |
| 4 | Nigel Cramer came round to see Quinn during the lunch-hour , London time . |
| 5 | Willi came up to see how he was during the morning . |
| 6 | Mrs Peterson came in to see Ruth just the once . |
| 7 | Mary came in to see that they were well enough served and , yielding to a hint from Hope , stayed a while to watch , with him , the strange behaviour of this incongruous pair . |
| 8 | ROBBIE Came back to see my favourite teacher . |
| 9 | Sien came in to see him on visiting days , and she was keeping an eye on the studio . |
| 10 | After a while João came up to see how she was . |
| 11 | ‘ Susan came here to see me . |
| 12 | David and Angela came along to see it and David said , ‘ I must introduce you to this guy Tony DeFries who is going to be my manager , and I think you should meet him too . ’ |
| 13 | Mosley came increasingly to see himself as the spokesman of the war generation , who refused to compromise his idealistic principles with the political realities of the post-war world . |
| 14 | James came back to see it once , in the last week of the run , but at the suggestion that a fresh eye — some advice from another director — might be useful , he tendered his resignation . |
| 15 | Emily and Charlotte came home to see her , but she was dead before they arrived . |