Example sentences of "[pron] come [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came here eight years ago from Unilever , and the standards I respected there are the ones I would try to uphold at Cancer Relief . |
| 2 | Nothing has happened since I came here 10 months ago to make me change my mind that this is the biggest club left in Britain . |
| 3 | Hence the possibility of saying , when neither speaker nor addressee is at home : ( 83 ) I came over several times to visit you , but you were never there So we must append another clause to our gloss , namely : " or motion towards the home-base maintained at CT by either speaker or addressee " . |
| 4 | I came out seven years later , and the whole world had changed . |
| 5 | I come here some days . |
| 6 | ‘ That Mrs Scamp is an old witch , I tell you , I come here three weeks ago to look after this place for my brother Rajiv while he does his business accountancy course . |
| 7 | The cause for celebration was the Clinton administration 's decision to recognise Angola 's government , which came just 48 hours before the talks had broken down . |
| 8 | What had offended the Government was an issue of the paper which came out two days before Christmas 1967 . |
| 9 | Apart from Halliwell , there is now only one other member of the staff , Mrs Iris Minns , who comes here four days a week to do general housework . |
| 10 | I said to Joan I said well when we came here five years ago , I 'm glad we did n't get her , by gawld she did look young |
| 11 | When we came home three days later , there were the usual visits to the two hospitals , more changing of plaster , more tablets to be taken … . |
| 12 | ‘ We come here most days . |
| 13 | The townsfolk must have gazed in amazement as there came ashore fine silks , spices , calicoes and jewellery such as none had seen before , including some ‘ … other stones of a green colour with spots of red ’ . |
| 14 | There comes so motor bikers |
| 15 | ‘ They came over three hours ago and took it away . ’ |
| 16 | We had that one nil down and we thought that was it , there was and then they came back seven goals |
| 17 | And when I recall the shattering consequences of what happened one night a month or so later , I think of Hamlet , saying ‘ When sorrows come , they come not single spies , But in battalions . ’ |
| 18 | Blocks them off as well yeah , and it comes up one channel in use when they cleared out card down , it clears the card so you can take it out I do n't , they come down three channels in use , two channels in use , one channel in use . |
| 19 | He came here five days ago , just after Christmas . |
| 20 | When he came back several minutes later , he was still smiling . |
| 21 | He came back several times , quite convinced that only a little greater effort would supply him with the treat he had in mind . |
| 22 | ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed . |
| 23 | But he came back three days later crying his eyes out and begging me to forgive him , he looked like a helpless puppy . |
| 24 | Yes , well it 's Sunday night and they 're always fighting and that and he , he came out four rows of the bow wi , they were twelve inches square he kicked three of them in ! |
| 25 | Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for . |
| 26 | It came just three weeks before the students were due to sit their examinations . |
| 27 | For it came barely three months before Israel 's general election , in which the fate of the territories was the central issue . |
| 28 | The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed . |
| 29 | It came as senior members of the magistrates association met the Home Secretary in London to seek changes in the new fines system . |
| 30 | everybody on that call , instead of sixteen channels on a card and there 's five people using it , it comes up five channels in use and blocks out number eleven so that nobody else can use it |