Example sentences of "to come [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the early Fifties , we all started setting up Resistance networks again , all over Europe , when it looked as if the Soviets were going to come west on the next train : , The Air Force was particularly interested : escape routes for aircrew and so on . |
| 2 | His father sent him after an owd man somewhere to come hoom ; and he had an owd pony . |
| 3 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 4 | Look , what I wondered was , would you like to come fishing with me ? |
| 5 | ‘ If you do n't want to come fishing , why do n't you make yourself at home ? |
| 6 | Looking towards the future , which has to come fist ? |
| 7 | He was fighting in difficult territory and was to come bottom of the poll , beaten by Labour as well as by the Liberals who won the seat . |
| 8 | What on earth had prompted him to come hunting for me ? |
| 9 | Kettering persuaded him to come South and he helped them win the Southern League ( Eastern ) Championship in 1927–28 and 1928–29 . |
| 10 | No doubt , it was for such men as Peter Bouverie that he felt he had been called to come south . |
| 11 | The artist and his model is something of a recurrent theme while , as the illustration above shows , he must also be addicted to Come Dancing . |
| 12 | Marlon : Why did we have to come shopping ? |
| 13 | want to come work for him , did I tell ya . |
| 14 | Then they were aware of something , out there beyond the benches , which they could sense moving silently in the mist , and though he strained to see it he could not quite catch the thing in one place , for it seemed to come ant go , larger than the bench and bin , looming nearer but not quite seen , dark and grey and pointing to the sky . |
| 15 | Get back into shallow water , and I 'll tell you when it 's safe to come swimming . ’ |
| 16 | The wind power is expected to come onstream in the late 1990s . |
| 17 | The aftershocks of the European row tell us that the big tremors are still to come Economics . |
| 18 | ‘ And they want you to come top . ’ |
| 19 | Now he aims to come top in the ring when he faces the more experienced Dark Destroyer . |
| 20 | Thus individuals believe it is important and desirable to come top of the class , to win a race or reach the top of their chosen profession . |
| 21 | If I had to list the assets I was born with she would have to come top . |
| 22 | ‘ Monday : Producer rings to check OK for one critic to come night before Opening Night . |
| 23 | The 100 Group appreciates this and would be grateful for even a small gesture in the Budget , ‘ maybe with some indication that there could be more to come later' , Mr Lawrence suggests . |
| 24 | Hopkins took charge of production — it was seen as a part-time post , leaving him free for other work — but where was the cash to come from' ? |
| 25 | The nuclear plants will not be phased out until the alternative energy sources are ready to come on-stream , however . |
| 26 | ‘ Like to come wiv me next week ? ’ offered Rose , the bus slowly bringing them nearer home with each plodding step . |
| 27 | They are expected to come word perfect and to research their part , however tiny . |
| 28 | • With Valentine 's day so near to the closing date , we were expecting hundreds of soppy cards , bouquets of flowers , bottles of champagne and heart-shaped chocolates to come flooding into the office — there must have been a postal strike . |
| 29 | Observers suggest that the White Paper 's proposals will not make much difference to the overall amount of coal burnt in the UK , although a greater proportion will be likely to come form UK sources . |
| 30 | Drawing her tighter to him , he assured her , ‘ If you want to come North with me , you can . |