Example sentences of "[pron] came [adv prt] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , would you believe I came up there to save you ? |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said slowly , ‘ I came down here to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 5 | I came down here to try and find him . |
| 6 | I came back here to learn music . |
| 7 | Then I came back here to change , before I joined my wife at a dinner party . |
| 8 | Much later , I came back in to help Wu clear up the debris and to take the puppies out for a walk . |
| 9 | I came out here to do a job , Signor de Sciorto … ’ |
| 10 | I came out here to look for her , but she seems to have disappeared . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I came out here to find Bernard and that 's what I intend to do . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you came round here to ask if I 'd seen anything suspicious last night , not grill me about my sex life . ’ |
| 14 | Now , if you came out here to annoy me then … ’ |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Wycliffe said : ‘ And you met Matthew again when you came back here to live ? ’ |
| 17 | She came on here to help me with the coffee for the Church Army before Paul left . ’ |
| 18 | Then she came down here to tell my mum . |
| 19 | The next week she came in especially to tell us she had joined our special club . |
| 20 | So one word we came down here to talk about , and hey , here 's a whole lot things . |
| 21 | Before we came down here to clean the caravan . |
| 22 | You have to remember they came round here to kill me . |
| 23 | " They came round again to see if they could find any more clues , " Sara said , " but so far a blank ; and also , I don think anything was stolen , thanks to you . |
| 24 | They came in today to give us this talk about kind of er , kind of erm , money we 're gon na get , whatever today , you know , like they said about the Poll Tax |
| 25 | cos I mean they do n't usually do they , but he did he came up there to see me |
| 26 | The sixteenth-century merchant who was so proud of his oriel windows would be astonished if he came back today to find that behind them management was managing and typists typing . |
| 27 | He was often away a fortnight or three weeks at a time , but he came back here to use the cleaner . ’ |
| 28 | He came back later to claim another victim and the hosts were dismissed for 126 with 5.2 overs remaining . |
| 29 | This time when he came back in to see her , the air was darkest around his form , but when he grinned over the noise of the men in the room behind the door — a woman 's laugh punctured the air beyond — and he sat down peaceably at the foot of her bed , the blue paled to a translucence like a robin 's egg . |
| 30 | it came back up to say , say hello and now it 's gone back down below hello hello |