Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] come [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Not very much , just enough to enable me to come to Ireland . ’
2 None of the thoughts that had so oppressed her came into her mind .
3 He rang her hotel , and after a long wait she came to the phone .
4 He rang her hotel , and after a long wait she came to the phone .
5 So let us come to Kemp himself .
6 After a short , complicated conversation in our melange of languages , she left me to battle with my clothes and the shower , returning only to tell me to come to the house of Sheikha Grandmother .
7 ‘ I did not know it came from them ! ’ he muttered .
8 I think it 's quite legitimate for this Committee to take that twenty thousand because it 's there , and to say to itself , post budget we will have to look at the whole of the areas covered by budget protection to find the replicated twenty thousands in future years , and not just expect it to come from registration .
9 Doctor Rodier said you were n't to try too hard , just let it come by itself . ’
10 In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's .
11 I can not believe he came without Airey Neave 's permission , but it did not look a very comfortable arrangement , and I declined .
12 At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood .
13 Then it comes , and John does not see it coming at all .
14 I 've just seen your pic in the Standard ’ , she proclaimed excitedly , ‘ I 'd just like you to come on LBC radio tomorrow .
15 ‘ I 'd like to know it , all the same , ’ he said , as if the knowledge could somehow enable him to come to grips with it and defeat it .
16 How the hell can they say only when he fucking hear him coming down the stairs !
17 I found I had to get Dawn 's weight down much more than I 'd expected , or would have wished , just to persuade her to come for the food on my fist .
18 ‘ You 're not saying he came to the salon just for conversation ? ’
19 Shareholders are requested to complete and return the proxy card , but this does not preclude them coming to the meeting and voting in person .
20 Whenever Annunciata came to fetch the child she was firm : he must go at once or otherwise his mother would be displeased and might not allow him to come at all .
21 I mean er I 'll I 'll still need them to come to me for er entering
22 ‘ I have me pride , James Halden , and I 'm ashamed I ever let you come near me . ’
23 Well I still reckon it comes to ar I , I think , I still think they 're good , good value
24 Perhaps I can say , that what I 'd like to see is N C V O be much more corporate in the way it approaches things , erm , many of you will have seen many of our publications , but , you may not always realise they come from N C V O , sometimes it 's not always easy to see that , you have to search through and , not always find it , and we 've got many different images , so I think it 's important we er get a whole corporate image across .
25 ‘ You deliberately had us come over here , did n't you !
26 I could so clearly see her coming between you and me , between us and our poetry , and I felt furiously jealous and unhappy but tried not to show it .
27 Nothing , really , except that they also reckon it comes with a light pen …
28 The only problem was that my present wife , Isabella Rossellini , also insisted I come to lessons with our daughter , to make sure she was happy .
29 Now it 's quite likely that next time I come we can spend quite a bit of time doing this same thing again yeah cos there 's a lot in it there 's angles using a protractor adding things up to check they come to the total that the angles come to three sixty and there 's this thing about fractions there 's cancelling fractions and then there 's working with quite big numbers three hundred and sixty what 's two fifteenths of three hundred and sixty mm that 's quite hard .
30 Benny did n't really want her to come to the party , but for once Mother had been insistent .
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