Example sentences of "[adv] come to [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You had better come to my room , then . ’ |
| 2 | I 've merely come to my senses where women are concerned . ’ |
| 3 | It 's the difference between the person who knocks you down to take your purse and the person who knocks him down to come to your rescue . ’ |
| 4 | But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’ |
| 5 | I was referred to R.S.C. , Ord. 55 , r. 3 which refers to the appeal being by way of rehearing , but that of course is the same phrase as is used in R.S.C. , Ord. 59 which states that appeals to the Court of Appeal are by way of rehearing and , to put it shortly , without quoting from the note to that rule , it is plain that all that means is that the Court of Appeal has a wide ranging power to consider and deal with the way in which the court below came to its decision but it is not empowered to hear evidence , except in certain exceptional circumstances : see , too , Rayden and Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters , 16th ed. ( 1991 ) , p. 1388 , para. 49.2 . |
| 6 | In a cloak and dagger operation , he got in touch and insisted he could only come to her shop when there would be no other customers around . |
| 7 | ‘ So come to my party on Sunday , ’ Bridget said . |
| 8 | She waited till Sophie nodded reluctantly , then she added smoothly , ‘ So come to my party and do n't make an enemy of the man who has proved to be such a good neighbour . ’ |
| 9 | It is a dustbin man but he 's not come to our road yet . |
| 10 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
| 11 | The words ‘ I love you ’ just uttered by Ludens to Irina , had not come to his lips entirely by accident . |
| 12 | Why not come to my office in the morning ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I have a feeling that Silvia may have finally come to her senses . ’ |
| 14 | It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself . |
| 15 | Nor can Erich Honecker now ask the most important guest not to come to his party . |
| 16 | It 's for those reasons , sir , that the City Council feels that it can no longer support the proposed proposals for new settlement , just to come to your question about the issue of scale , I am not able to define what er small is in P P G three , it 's obviously been left deliberately vague , but I would draw your attention to the Ucwetec T P A study I 've just referred to which makes it quite clear in their terms that to be self contained in transport terms the nearest any settlement ne really needs to be in excess of twenty thousand people . |
| 17 | It 's just come to my attention that he might have corresponded with Christabel LaMotte . |
| 18 | This man she 's married finally came to his senses , but he was refusing to marry her at one point . |
| 19 | He was an ungallant swine for deliberately not coming to her aid , but in truth he really wanted to see which of the likely lads , would dash forward . |
| 20 | Of how Luke and Sonny were brought by cart to the infirmary in Castlebar ; of the ‘ roasting ’ they would get from Father Devlin for not coming to their aid ; of what Bull O'Malley would do when he arrived home from Dublin . |
| 21 | ‘ I am not coming to your room ! ’ |
| 22 | John , could I just come to your brother . |
| 23 | I 'm training the red-tailed buzzard as a hunting bird , though , and I 've found it sometimes prefers to look around for food for itself , rather than just come to my lure . |
| 24 | Reconquest would take time , in particular if diplomacy did not come to their help . |
| 25 | They have a very lean time of it in winter , and if the spring grass does not come to their succour , they die in large numbers . |
| 26 | Seduced by all things fine and feudal , Meridon will not come to her senses until she returns , like an avenging O'Hara to her Tara , to the land . |
| 27 | He did not come to her bed that night , nor for many nights after . |
| 28 | For when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 29 | Carey addressed the wealthy directly , quoting Jesus ' parable about the sorting of the goats ( the wealthy ) from the sheep ( the poor ) in St Matthew 's gospel : ‘ The curse is upon you … for when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 30 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |