Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms . |
| 2 | Waking in our bed one morning , we 'll hear a chorus of trills and cheeps ; fun has come back to cluster in the branches of the tree outside our window . |
| 3 | In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear . |
| 4 | Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series . |
| 5 | Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table . |
| 6 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
| 7 | A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark . |
| 8 | When Helen came in to help with the spaying operation she looked rather nervous . |
| 9 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 10 | Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports . |
| 11 | Rob came over to perch on the corner of her desk . |
| 12 | The eerie lights would hang in the air for quite some time then the mortars came over to burst at the edge of the wood . |
| 13 | The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing . |
| 14 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 15 | They were among a few people who came back to see over the property again quite a few times , and I met their sons . |
| 16 | I carried on , then came back to live in the North but it just seems to have been a really cemented bond . ’ |
| 17 | Earlier this season , Haslemere might have collapsed at this stage , but they came back to equalise with the best goal of the game . |
| 18 | It is a curious miscellany , where photographs of his early ballets are mixed in with family snap-shots , pictures of his friends , souvenirs of journeys , Christmas and other greetings , a book of clothing coupons from the days of rationing , costume drawings and various illustrations cut from magazines , including a feature on Roland Petit 's ballet Carmen and examples of the ‘ new look ’ in women 's clothes when long skirts came back to fashion for the first time since the war ; he proposed a ballet about that , but it was rejected . |
| 19 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 20 | I just hoped that Tom would feel better about the situation when he came back to work in the New Year . |
| 21 | Am I glad we came out to work for the entire season , Rosie ! |
| 22 | And you ken and all their friends and neighbours came around to help with the harvest they 'd have this home brew . |
| 23 | She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant . |
| 24 | He 's the chief executive of the one of the biggest advertising agencies in the country , he 's coming in to talk about the thirty something phenomena here in the nineties now . |
| 25 | It was like coming in to land on the wrinkled hide of some sleeping behemoth . |
| 26 | There were the people coming in to shuffle through the little magazines , Zen Buddhism , Burroughs , Ginsberg , Nuttall , New Departures , Circuit , four letter words , and Indian music . |
| 27 | Dave Crabb is coming over to help with the design and building chores . |
| 28 | She put it down , all the same , on the counter , but we did n't talk much longer as the revellers from the rear began coming through to go to the bedrooms . |
| 29 | ‘ And it keeps getting bigger and bigger , and so we keep coming back to complain about the size of the hotels and the lousy service , and STOP PUTTING CUCUMBER AND BUTTER ON MY F***ING SANDWICHES ! |
| 30 | ‘ People are coming back to work in the office downstairs from Monday , you know . |