Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pers pn] [modal v] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mercer produced a key and gave it to me , explaining that I would come to a locked door . |
| 3 | And I ca n't think that you 'd come round at this time of day just for a chat . " |
| 4 | Half-formed suspicion had become fact , and Cassie did not think that she could come to terms with it … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He must have heard that I 'd come back from Ireland . |
| 12 | I hope that they will come back to visit us often . |
| 13 | Or should he just take it off again and hope that she 'd come back in time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | I 'd rather taken it for granted that she 'd come to London with me . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ My friend gave her name , which is Smith , and he — your uncle — assumed that she 'd come from ‘ my lord — Mr Smith , ’ so … ’ |
| 22 | Moran had written to him and assumed that he would come . |
| 23 | He assumed that he could come and go as he wanted , without worrying over-much about their opinions or needs . |
| 24 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 25 | he was like a terrier , unable to let go in spite of a beating , and it was hard for her not to feel responsible ; because , after all , did n't his persistence show that she 'd come to matter to him , at least a little ? |
| 26 | Her father disapproved of him , and had said so , but she had always thought that he would come round to her point of view . |
| 27 | He had thought that he must come back to her now as a stranger , learning afresh the shape of her wide forehead and tapering face , and the way she had of opening her eyes wide to take in entire the person to whom she spoke . |
| 28 | So cunning was the sculptors ' work that the story was told that it would come alive to guard the pass against any invader . |
| 29 | ‘ Fortex has shown that it can come through a difficult trading period in excellent financial shape , ’ said Mr Austin . |
| 30 | For the planners ' part , they know that they must come up with good results to make up for the inadequacies of the previous strategies . |