Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] [modal v] come " in BNC.

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1 Or if my mother comes up , and I 'm sort of just getting up , she says , oh do you want me to bring stuff up , or ideally , I usually say or I 'll come downstairs and get breakfast .
2 The suggestion about the car had come from the rifleman — he 'd asked if I had a car , and I 'd said yes , because I did n't want them to know that I 'd come by boat .
3 Mercer produced a key and gave it to me , explaining that I would come to a locked door .
4 Well erm I said if you want me to do it let me know and I 'll come and do it but just make well she 's cancelled before because once she had n't got the money and
5 Their husbands were away and they did n't know if they 'd come back or not and er , one girl er th this was n't at the , near where I used to live at .
6 I do n't know if she 'd come , but I 'd invite her .
7 ‘ –I did n't know if you would come . ’
8 I do n't know if you 'll come into the shop .
9 I do n't know if it 'll come back .
10 But one time er I 'd been er I were wounded and I 'd come out of er they bring you to casual clearly stations , thousands got into one I in this ward er tents and best way they could you know and nurses there and all .
11 ‘ But he 's a good runner and I did n't know whether he would come back at me .
12 And I ca n't think that you 'd come round at this time of day just for a chat . "
13 Half-formed suspicion had become fact , and Cassie did not think that she could come to terms with it …
14 If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values .
15 I had a spare bedroom and eventually , we agreed that he would come and live in my flat as a lodger — which is what happened .
16 But since he was too weak to travel , it was arranged that he would come and stay with my husband and I until he was fit enough to fly back to Jersey where he and my mother lived .
17 Sulien Blount is here with a horse for you , and begs that you will come to his mother , now , at once , for the Lady Donata is dying , and is asking to see you again , and hear you , before she dies . ’
18 I would have been sorrier still if she had not paraded her distress so openly , sighing and staring into space and insisting that Richard should buy her whisky , which is expensive in Morocco — in her place I should have been so humiliated and ashamed that I would have done my best to put a good face on it — but I was sorry enough to agree that she should come with us , in our car .
19 When the administration sought the money from Congress , however , some Democrats argued that it should come either from tax increases or from cuts in other spending programmes .
20 He must have heard that I 'd come back from Ireland .
21 I hope that they will come back to visit us often .
22 Or should he just take it off again and hope that she 'd come back in time .
23 I hope that it will come about under the Portuguese presidency , and I am working towards that end ; but it must be an end that does not discriminate against Scottish farmers or British farmers generally .
24 ‘ No , I hope that I can come back next season to ride Party Politics again and that he could go on to become the type who will run in the Grand National another two or three times .
25 Erm , we hope that you will come back soon , because for all the reasons I 've outlined it 's tremendously important to us and it 's nice to have a body of , a big large body of trade unions in the city in terms of our feelings as , as local trade unions as well .
26 She imagined that he would come to a halt , but his fingers began to explore inside her knickers , moving steadily towards her warm and willing crotch .
27 The US Federal Trade Commission 's investigation of Microsoft Corp has had an air of unreality about it , with few people imagining that it will come to anything very much or lead to any significant change in the market , but now that the thing may be coming to a climax , what are the possible outcomes ?
28 I 'd rather taken it for granted that she 'd come to London with me .
29 In his letter announcing the betrothal , João had said that he would come to Ireland in the summer in order to take Sara back to Lisbon before the autumn storms , so her expectation of his arrival mounted with each passing day .
30 ‘ My friend gave her name , which is Smith , and he — your uncle — assumed that she 'd come from ‘ my lord — Mr Smith , ’ so … ’
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