Example sentences of "come [adv] the [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 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 .
3 Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again .
4 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 .
5 Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down .
6 In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day .
7 The main force came ashore the next night and followed a strict timetable .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 ‘ I expect they came back the next day , or the next week ? ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 And they came back the next day to build shelters for the Feast of Tabernacles , in obedience to the law 's commands .
14 Granted this authenticity even for the symbol , she came back the next day , nobly escorted .
15 She came back the next day .
16 Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died .
17 Chapman came back the next year , he said , because he had more time , not because the finances were in a muddle .
18 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 ) .
19 Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day .
20 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 ?
21 Tony Milton and his assistant , thank goodness , were coming down the ninth fairway on an electric buggy .
22 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 .
23 So they said they would come back the next week and see what I thought .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 …
27 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 … ’
28 I guess he must have seen him go in sometime late , and come out the next morning . ’
29 Things would deteriorate rather quickly , for Alberto would return to his hotel in the evening with a sculpture eight to twelve inches tall under his arm and come back the next day with a piece no more than three or four inches high …
30 That 's why I thought , when I come back the next time and you 're upset I said oh no way do I want to upset a woman like that .
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