Example sentences of "come [adv] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 And I 'd been wondering whether like I could perhaps persuade him or his boss , the professor to come along and talk to us , and let , some of their time is very full , and to them time is money .
2 And he will if you 'd like to come along and speak to him individually afterwards he will tell you something about that .
3 I see on the agenda this morning that an invitation has been extended for to come along and speak to us .
4 Next day at school , Noel 's come in and gone to Scott , you bastard !
5 ‘ But after he sat down and thought about it he has come in and apologised to the lads and realised he maybe should not have said it .
6 ‘ You goin' to come in and talk to me after you 've eaten ? ’
7 Do you think you could get him to come in and talk to us ? ’
8 I remember when I was about two-and-a-half or three , they used to come in and say to her , ‘ Mrs McGuigan , we do n't want to alarm you but your son is on top of that thirty-foot pole out there , ’ and my mother would say , ‘ Oh , that 's old hat , let's hear something new . ’
9 When we 're in Scotland , we regularly pay for Northern Ireland producers to come over and talk to us .
10 interesting as well as a er edible lunch er we 're very pleased now to start away the afternoon session and I 'm particularly pleased to be able to introduce Patricia Routledge , she 's an actress with so many parts in so many media that I 'm not going to make any further introduction , but merely to ask her to come up and speak to us .
11 You did it on me , gettin' her to come up and talk to me , and do n't think I do n't know you 're laughin' about it .
12 ‘ Us is in 'ere , Sergeant Joe , ’ called Ella , ‘ Mum told us to come up and talk to yer lady friend . ’
13 He went down extremely well last Sunday , for example , when many people gathered outside the party 's central committee building in an unauthorised meeting and called on him to come out and talk to them .
14 Listen I I 'm going to come back and talk to you in more lengths
15 If I ought to pay a fair price for what I buy then I ought to come back and add to the agreed price .
16 The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course
17 Going on again on the tenant farmers , I actually think that er we are very good landlords and I think our our our tenants would rather us keep us as landlords than the private sector , in actual fact we will have no doubt a debate quite soon on that issue when the government makes us sell off all areas of of er th our interests and that one , I will tell you this , I think that some of the members all sides of the fence every side of the fence , have been passionately behind the tenants , if if they 're gon na be sold off by now they 'd have been sold off , but I think it wo n't be far long before we have to take education first , social services first , the elderly before er your side with your government to come forward and say to us we do n't want you interfering with anything like that and being bold business , get rid of , but that 's another debate that will come up later on .
18 I remember when my school opened , or just before it did , erm I got the staff together for a conference for a day , and got another East Sussex Head , James Quinn , who came along and talked to them , and one of the things he said was now for the next week or two , whatever John Werner says goes .
19 All these came together and seemed to us a clear call , which we shared with the church .
20 But after he sat down and thought about it he came in and apologised to the lads . ’
21 And they came in and chatted to us about it .
22 Then a young man came over and spoke to her .
23 The turbulence was such that his head hit the ceiling and his headset came off and fell to the floor .
24 If my children came home and said to me that they got the cane at school I 'd have just said well you must have deserved it .
25 Izzie never came near or spoke to Gabriel .
26 I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions .
27 He came up and apologized to me after lessons .
28 But mostly he did not need to talk at a bunfight , people came up and talked to him , and he would nod his head and smile benevolently and say happily , Yes , Yes , Yes .
29 Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course .
30 Then Ruth came back and spoke to Mother .
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