Example sentences of "come [adv] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | These all turned out to be negative and the examining doctor decided to take rectal samples when she returned for her results as he felt she would be unlikely to come back a third time . |
4 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
5 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
6 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
7 | Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down . |
8 | In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day . |
9 | The main force came ashore the next night and followed a strict timetable . |
10 | However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it . |
11 | When she came back the next day the stripes had been dyed her natural brunette , but badly , so that her hair still seemed striped , hence her nickname , Bunte . |
12 | ‘ I expect they came back the next day , or the next week ? ’ |
13 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
14 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
15 | And they came back the next day to build shelters for the Feast of Tabernacles , in obedience to the law 's commands . |
16 | Granted this authenticity even for the symbol , she came back the next day , nobly escorted . |
17 | She came back the next day . |
18 | Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died . |
19 | Chapman came back the next year , he said , because he had more time , not because the finances were in a muddle . |
20 | When Blyth came back the next year he was even more unpleasant than before , having lost his left leg from above the knee in a road accident ( the boy he was playing'chicken ’ with was killed ) . |
21 | Erm I myself came out a first floor window erm a lot of a lot of entrances had already been blocked by the tanks |
22 | Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day . |
23 | When Dottie came again the next day , bearing chocolates and , of all things , a pomegranate , the first thing she said to me was : " You know it 's Christmas in a week , God forbid ? |
24 | Tony Milton and his assistant , thank goodness , were coming down the ninth fairway on an electric buggy . |
25 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
26 | So they said they would come back the next week and see what I thought . |
27 | I was annoyed when came back the last time and I thought oh my goodness I hope I have n't given that woman any annoyance . |
28 | We tried to tell them that they were in as safe a place as possible , that only reliable people knew where they were hiding , and that we would come again the next day . |
29 | But the other lot come down the next night , and the night after that , and the night after that , all week they come down , about 40 , 50 of them , from all over … |
30 | Consider the boys ' version of the ‘ numbers game ’ at the beginning of ‘ Fighting talk ’ : ‘ and the other lot come down the next night , and the night after that and the night after that , all week , about 40 , 50 , from all over … ’ |