Example sentences of "[modal v] to come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The club , by now had spilled out into a sort of annexe conservatory at the back of the room and by the time the summer arrived , people were spilling out into the garden and , in fact , used to come into the club by this route illegally . |
| 2 | Dudley Moore used to come into the club twice a week to play the piano . |
| 3 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 4 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 5 | If we go back a few years , I do n't know how many people remember before we had DOPACS , I remember when projects used to come into the group from on high , they used to filter through the organization , until they landed on somebody 's desk who was actually supposed to carry out the work . |
| 6 | He used to come into the shop after a little while and he 'd go back in the kitchen again and he 'd come back again later on . |
| 7 | But they used to come into the shop . |
| 8 | She was not going to dig up ancient grievances or remind Gloria of days gone by , when she used to come into the Watermen with half a dozen different gentlemen-friends in tow or , which was even worse , unaccompanied and on the look-out for a lonely man who might take a fancy to her . |
| 9 | Water used to come over the top , and swelled it up and bust em ! |
| 10 | and he had all the boys pretty well turned out like that , cos that 's another brother who used to come with the mail with the wooden hand |
| 11 | And they used to be coming erm about the end of September through the beginning of November , they used to come to the beach from different directions , during that time . |
| 12 | We used to come to the theatre once a week but since the demise of the money saver two for the price of one scheme with only come really twice a season . |
| 13 | Some of them used to come to the Accademia and to me they 're still welcome if they want to come and speak . |
| 14 | Did she used to come to the housing , to the meetings ? |
| 15 | T. D. A woman in Kent Street used to come to the corner with a bottle of beer . |
| 16 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
| 17 | He often used to come to the house . ’ |
| 18 | The manager of the local department store used to come to the shop regularly , so did the butcher from three doors up . |
| 19 | And when you got into any gas , a blue flame used to come on the top of your lamp pop , gone . |
| 20 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
| 21 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 22 | She was the sort of woman who used to come for the weekend at home , sometimes , with a suitcase full of little black dresses for cocktails and dinner . |
| 23 | And we er used to come through the Bay of Biscay at that time of the day . |
| 24 | I found this out at Dagenham , when I worked at Fords , the supply lorries used to come through the day and through the night with articles made in other factories , including bodies and wheels and these were put on the assembly line and routed through Fords to be assembled . |
| 25 | He used to come through the doors of a restaurant with a loud ‘ Whoooaaa ! ’ |
| 26 | Then they used to come down the street , I 've got some lovely conga eels , stinks a bit , but not a deal . |
| 27 | Now the roadway used to come under the railway . |
| 28 | There used to be er , a lady that used to come in the cinema when I worked there , and she had a |
| 29 | And we 'd knock out things like ‘ Slow Death ’ by The Flamin' Groovies — who also used to come in the shop now and again when they were in town . |
| 30 | ’ There was one regular customer awe spoken girl who was enormously fat , quite well-to-do — who used to come in the shop a couple of times each week flaunting her jewellery and expensive hairdos . |