Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] come [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was astonished that he agreed to come down with you . |
| 2 | Cagney 's impact and the thoughts and feelings that he provoked came directly from his own performance before the camera . |
| 3 | He gave the impression that he had come straight from fasting ; and there was a mild hint of irritation at his fast being interrupted . |
| 4 | He reported that he had come in by helicopter , and had claimed the hill as Balboa 's on the advice of William , and in a formal note to the Explorers ' Club of New York , of which he was a member . |
| 5 | It seemed to him that he had come so far in discovering so much about his problem but was unable to bring about any substantial change . |
| 6 | Those eyes looked so blue when he was angry like this , and in a way , after last night , it made things easier that he had come now , when there was Faye 's latest problem to think of . |
| 7 | That evening , as we walked through the village that Eric had never seen on our way to the orphanage , I felt proud and happy that he had come back . |
| 8 | Alison Wilding is bound in the direction of Karen Schubert , who felt , last year , that he had come very close to having an artist — Rachel Whiteread — win the award . |
| 9 | The victim had been told , while in trance , that the word would remind him that he had come out without his trousers ! |
| 10 | ‘ He seems to have gone off into the wilds of Turkey on some dig or other , and got so interested that he forgot to come back . |
| 11 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 12 | She had given him no answer but had stared at him and he had come back quickly , saying , ‘ That was a daft thing to say ; you always manage . ’ |
| 13 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 14 | He says that they spoke to Mr Morley and he agreed to come out . |
| 15 | ‘ But Olechea was playing a winner 's game and he failed to come through because of his cowardice . |
| 16 | I heard him working away up here alone , and he kept coming down all eager and excited and asking me to come and look , and I would n't … of all the ridiculous , petty … |
| 17 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 18 | Rang Danny and he said to come round . |
| 19 | The glass was bullet-proof , sky-proof , sea-proof , plant-proof , stone-proof , everything-proof and he refused to come out of it , not even when the Headmaster threatened to throw him to the giant eel for being so cowardly . |
| 20 | I do n't like doing movies anymore but I really enjoyed this , ’ and he did come up with a very eloquent retraction , which no one printed . ’ |
| 21 | It was alleged that they unlawfully arrested Llewellyn Lovelace in Milton Keynes six years ago , and then altered his statement to make it look as if he had come forward voluntarily . |
| 22 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 23 | There were gaps last night — he had no idea the when of his visit to the hospital : if he had come straight home or stayed out drinking — that , try as he might , Parker could not remember . |
| 24 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 25 | If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly . |
| 26 | It had been impossible to thwart him under the glare of media attention back at the restaurant , and she was still trying to decide how to deal with the situation if he wanted to come in with her when they reached her apartment — and she knew he would want to . |
| 27 | If he happened to come up the way . |
| 28 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |
| 29 | Claudia walked slowly back to the hotel ; she could leave Alnwick now before Roman came back , if he did come back . |
| 30 | If he did come back to life , he was in real problems with the bank . |