Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [pers pn] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah , we remember when you shouted here she comes . |
| 3 | Mr Usta , aged 34 , who lives with his wife , mother and three daughters in a shack in an Istanbul shanty town , described how he came to London last year , attracted by a newspaper advertisement offering money to kidney donors . |
| 4 | He had been singing , and when he came in he came in singing . |
| 5 | and Joan came over she came over about a week or so after , not , not much more than a week , and she sat there and she said oh well yeah I 'll have one of your , he asked if we 'd like a sweet , she said yeah I 'll have one dad . |
| 6 | mother 's house in because my father was in in the first world war so my mum had to go to live with my grandmother and er I was born there and er then when my father came home we came back to my mum came back to she ha got a little house somewhere I forget where it was street , does n't s it 's not there any more . |
| 7 | No he came back he came back after he had been at the meeting . |
| 8 | ran away from it you see and then when he came back he came to us and he growled a few times at it , so , but erm , backed off you know |
| 9 | And if I remember they came then they came for the Trade Unionist . |
| 10 | In the talk , first Mr Preshous ( Principal of the Bishop 's Castle ommunity College ) recalled how they came to Bishop 's Castle in 1973 when the Borough was celebrating Charter Year marking the 400th anniversary of the granting of the Borough Charter . |
| 11 | It made Times just look super elegant , you know , and yah I , that 's what 's wrong with all the foundries now , they forgot where they came from . |
| 12 | Air lifts were now out of the question , but trains were still a practical proposition — as Chadwick discovered when he came to deal with the Nazi official in charge of emigration . |
| 13 | " When you went away I came down here and read " |
| 14 | Martin decided to abseil from the peg but as he leant back it came out . |
| 15 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 16 | He knows all about them kind of things , I do n't well I knew where they come |
| 17 | No one knew where he came from . |
| 18 | China was so remote from Europe that when silk first became available for the wealthier classes in Imperial Rome no one knew where it came from , but the fact that it reached Rome shows that these two civilizations were not totally devoid of contact with each other . |
| 19 | Perhaps he was more specific , speaking of what he usually saw when he came to work in the morning — Eva in her blue silk pyjamas and red robe shouting and laughing and giving orders to me for breakfast , and reading aloud from the papers . |
| 20 | The first thing he saw when he came out of the station was an antiquated sign on a lamppost saying , ‘ Stand for 6 licensed hackney cabs ’ . |
| 21 | This hypothesis was roughly confirmed by what I saw when I came to the quayside , or what had been the quayside when the lake existed . |
| 22 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 23 | Why did n't yous come out ? |
| 24 | Well I did n't him coming , and Ian saw me coming . |
| 25 | Why did n't they come and visit me , Mum and Dad ? |
| 26 | did n't they come up with anything ? |
| 27 | Did n't they come other two ? |
| 28 | Did n't they come down here , them two boys one night with their dad ? |
| 29 | Did n't they come out , Denmark were going |
| 30 | ‘ Why did n't you come back before ? ’ he asked . |