Example sentences of "come [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Knocked on the door , said she 'd come to drive me up to the county ground , had a picnic in the car and she hoped I was ready . ’ |
| 2 | ’ Do you come to greet me ? |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps you can tell me why my daughter does n't come to see me ? |
| 4 | ‘ I could have resolved it for you , ’ he said , ‘ if only you 'd come to see me earlier . |
| 5 | Before I left , I asked if she would come to see me one day . |
| 6 | Usually , the Oracle says simply that ‘ the Master is asleep ’ , but if you are running an adventure in which Drachenfels is returning to life and the adventurers have n't killed him yet , the Oracle 's eyes gleam as he says that ‘ the Master is growing stronger , he will come to see me soon ’ , as he clasps his hands together in unholy pleasure . |
| 7 | I was startled for a moment , as one does not have ex-Prime Ministers calling on one every day , but this was very like S.B. , who began , ‘ You will never come to see me , so I thought I would come to see you . ’ |
| 8 | I never saw an enormous lot of Basil except when he was passing through London and he wanted to buy pictures etc. and he would then come to see me and we would discuss them . |
| 9 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 10 | When Pope John xxiii visited prison he said to the inmates ‘ You could not come to see me so I have come to see you . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It would be nice , though , if you could come to see me as , I do n't know , your second father , maybe ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 13 | I am not sure what the hon. Member for Worsley ( Mr. Lewis ) is trying to say , but although I made an offer to his hon. Friend the Member for Alyn and Deeside , the hon. Gentleman did not come to see me . |
| 14 | ‘ And I thought you 'd come to see me . ’ |
| 15 | However this wo n't quite do either — one can say : ( 84 ) When I 'm in the office , you can come to see me where come glosses as " movement towards the location of the speaker at the time of some other specified event " ( let us call this time reference time ) . |
| 16 | He strode to her , eyes blazing , and shouted , ‘ Why did you specifically come to see me the minute you found out I had my own investment bank ? ’ |
| 17 | So I mean , John was right , she did come to see me that time . |
| 18 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 19 | I must admit I am surprised Mother did n't come to meet me . ’ |
| 20 | As I went into the house , I noticed that one person did not come to meet me . |
| 21 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , if I ca n't come here , Linton can come to visit me at the Grange , ’ suggested Cathy happily . |
| 23 | ‘ Why do n't you ever come to visit me ? ’ |
| 24 | If we 'd been engaged , I might have thought you 'd come to give me back my ring . ’ |
| 25 | She 'd come to persuade me — ’ |
| 26 | Should the FA come calling I would take any managerial post offered , even Coventry City . |
| 27 | ‘ I was sure she 'd come to love me in the end , if I could just be patient , ’ she whispered . |
| 28 | If I accepted this relationship you seem to want , you 'd come to hate me for making you live a lie . |
| 29 | ‘ When — when I go back — next week , ’ Jenna said in a rush before they reached the house , ‘ will you come to collect me or do you want me to get to Paris by myself ? ’ |
| 30 | Well I , I said do n't come promising me work |