Example sentences of "[pron] come [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She phoned me earlier this week and invited me to come down here to see her land . |
| 2 | Margaret was nearly out of her mind when she asked me to come out here to look for you , but that 's all in the past now . |
| 3 | I came here today to have a look but I did n't think it would affect me the way it has . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed , though while she felt it would not be right for her to question him about his employer , she could see no reason — since he must be aware of the contents of Ven Gajdusek 's desk diary — for not mentioning , ‘ I came here specifically to interview Mr Gajdusek last Friday , but — ’ |
| 5 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 6 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , would you believe I came up there to save you ? |
| 8 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said slowly , ‘ I came down here to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 9 | I came down here to try and find him . |
| 10 | I came back here to learn music . |
| 11 | Then I came back here to change , before I joined my wife at a dinner party . |
| 12 | I came out here to do a job , Signor de Sciorto … ’ |
| 13 | I came out here to look for her , but she seems to have disappeared . ’ |
| 14 | I came out here to have a little fun skiing quietly round , and here you are , attempting to barge your way into my life all over again . |
| 15 | I came out here to find Bernard and that 's what I intend to do . ’ |
| 16 | I come home later to hear his voice on my answerphone ; slow and heavy , pleading , knackered . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought you came round here to ask if I 'd seen anything suspicious last night , not grill me about my sex life . ’ |
| 18 | Now , if you came out here to annoy me then … ’ |
| 19 | You came out here to whimper over the fact that you could n't be together in the way that you would like , only you made the unfortunate mistake of running into me instead . ’ |
| 20 | Wycliffe said : ‘ And you met Matthew again when you came back here to live ? ’ |
| 21 | She came on here to help me with the coffee for the Church Army before Paul left . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But she came here specifically to see you ? ’ |
| 23 | Then she came down here to tell my mum . |
| 24 | The next week she came in especially to tell us she had joined our special club . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman might reflect on the fact that those Scotsmen who come down here to represent English constituencies are the best of the Scotsmen , who choose to come down here to represent one of the 523 constituencies in this country . |
| 26 | You come down here to see me and you beat up my son . ’ |
| 27 | ( ‘ There 's an old man who comes in sometimes to show them how to make musical instruments . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We came here today to see how you were doing , up here in the bushes with Nana , ’ her mother explained , leaning against the hot side of the car and avoiding the child 's eyes . |
| 29 | So one word we came down here to talk about , and hey , here 's a whole lot things . |
| 30 | Before we came down here to clean the caravan . |