Example sentences of "[pron] come [adv] [num] [noun] " 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 | I came out seven years later , and the whole world had changed . |
4 | ‘ I came home one day , ten years or so ago , expecting to find you there . |
5 | ‘ I 'm sure he would , the good man , Lord rest him , ’ said Julia and Mrs Redmond went on , ‘ I came home one night and Sarah told me my mother had told her she should start going out and enjoying herself , and I was relieved . |
6 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
7 | Could I come down one weekend and build such a pond for her ? |
8 | I come round one time . |
9 | ‘ 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | What had offended the Government was an issue of the paper which came out two days before Christmas 1967 . |
12 | But after all you came back one day , and it all started again . |
13 | they are , she got the forms er but it did n't go and you 'd got to fill them in and then it happened with , but then suddenly she came home one day and she said oh she said I 've got a job |
14 | Why do n't you come round one evening soon and look at it ? ’ |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 |
17 | 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 … . |
18 | ‘ They came over three hours ago and took it away . ’ |
19 | We had that one nil down and we thought that was it , there was and then they came back seven goals |
20 | To pick up a well they come here one afternoon to pick up a car . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | happens they come under one education authority . |
23 | He came here five days ago , just after Christmas . |
24 | He came over one morning when mother was out and Terry had gone to work — just like now . ’ |
25 | A week or two after Stephen 's suggestion , he came home one day leading a pretty little mare on a halter . |
26 | He came home one day reporting that a " gym shoe " was used to administer punishment and that it was very painful . |
27 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
28 | I 'll never forget when he came home one night a few months ago and said he 'd met this old man who could tell fortunes by reading the dregs in the bottom of a beer glass . |
29 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
30 | ‘ 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 . |