Example sentences of "come [adv prt] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tired , too : she lay awake at night , thinking , and came down several mornings so pale that Auntie Lou wanted to go to the chemist and buy her a tonic . |
| 2 | Hence the possibility of saying , when neither speaker nor addressee is at home : ( 83 ) I came over several times to visit you , but you were never there So we must append another clause to our gloss , namely : " or motion towards the home-base maintained at CT by either speaker or addressee " . |
| 3 | Er , and this came up several years ago , when this council went into conversation with the Goddard Estate , and the Goddard Estate wishing to dispose of our assets . |
| 4 | He came back several times , quite convinced that only a little greater effort would supply him with the treat he had in mind . |
| 5 | When he came back several minutes later , he was still smiling . |
| 6 | One or two families came back several times , and we exchanged cards and news at Christmas . |