Example sentences of "[verb] to come [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around .
2 ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess .
3 Like you say , a couple of days off now and then , you seem to come back a little bit more fired up .
4 And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber .
5 I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else .
6 They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way .
7 In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day .
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