Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yer muvver asked me ter come round an' tell yer . |
| 2 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 3 | She told me not to come round she did ! |
| 4 | He advised them not to come into the off-licence with him . |
| 5 | ‘ I told you not to come in here again . ’ |
| 6 | But Mr Quatt only grasped her arm , uttering in an urgent undervoice , ‘ I told you not to come , Araminta . |
| 7 | I told you not to come down those blasted stairs on your own . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I told you never to come here ! ’ |
| 9 | Remember a couple of weeks ago when you were taking the piss out of him for being scruffy , you told him not to come in again unless he was wearing a tie . |
| 10 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 11 | He chased the customer down the road and told him never to come in the shop again — that was the way Ron was ! |
| 12 | So we built this snowman round this rock and this car came back cos he came he just came in to hit it and he burst into and broke his bumper . |
| 13 | ‘ I asked you not to come , ’ Kopyion said . |
| 14 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 15 | I just wriggled it , , and polished it up come the lights ! |
| 16 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 17 | As Ian Brown , of Lee Moor Farm in Northumberland , noted : ‘ A fact that saddened me lately came from a recent survey which suggested that the average family business — not just farms but all family businesses — lasts only 25 years , which I guess is only a generation . |
| 18 | Again the policeman ordered her sharply to come with him . |
| 19 | This led many later Greek thinkers to regard musical theory as a branch of mathematics ( together with geometry , arithmetic , and astronomy it constituted what eventually came to be called the quadrivium ) , although this view was not universally accepted , the most influential of those who rejected it being Aristoxenus of Tarentum ( fourth century BC ) . |
| 20 | Anybody worked it out come on M N O two . |
| 21 | My Mum was the only white person who lived in the whole house , a point not unnoticed by me since I often asked her how come she lived there with us when everyone else was black … |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , from what she said , I gathered she usually came round here . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Did you not come away thinking that the urban development challenge of the century adds to little more than opportunistic chaos — an architectural circus — with a sprinkling of postmodern gimmicks , the ghastly mega-lumps of Canary Wharf and a fairground train to get you there ? ’ |
| 24 | Instead , he had hardly begun before he was embraced by a Brahmin woman and was asked , ‘ Why did you not come sooner ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ My child , why did you not come back to your home ? ’ |
| 26 | He strode to her , eyes blazing , and shouted , ‘ Why did you specifically come to see me the minute you found out I had my own investment bank ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Did you really come just to see me ? ’ |
| 28 | Did you ever come across him ? ’ |
| 29 | How many of , erm , did you ever come across a house with only one socket in a living room ? |
| 30 | ‘ Did she ever come here ? ’ |