Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But erm because I 've been out there doing this and that 's that was part of my if you like to come in to do the recruitment side of it , er I had to experience and I 'm glad I did because there were one or two pre-judgements I had about advertising sales , as most people do , erm that I had to get wiped out of my erm my my system . |
2 | Then they have to send Ministers like that youngster around the world with a begging bowl to get other industries to come in to repair the damage that they have done . |
3 | Twice Ferdinando had come down to spend the night with her and twice she had refused him without offering any adequate reason . |
4 | Just before she had gone up to rest and change for dinner , Robert 's daughter , Alice , had come down to see the company . |
5 | And one thing you might come up with — this is just my idea , Vic is n't so sure about it — is that they ( i.e. us ) have come back to re-enact the ceremony for some reason that 's tremendously important to their tribes . |
6 | He got a few yards down , he said so I said well have yo you have n't come round to view the house today have you ? |
7 | It 's come round to collect the money she asked for it . |
8 | Just then the signalman came down to say the King had died . |
9 | When she tugged the chain ( which had a pottery handle bluntly instructing her to ‘ PULL ’ on it ) , there was a raucous , metallic clanking fit to wake the whole house , but not a trickle of water came down to flush the bowl . |
10 | No heralds , however , came down to inform the town . |
11 | We came down to wash the caravan |
12 | Several players were being watched by the County selectors ; even venerable rugby correspondent John Pargeter came along to witness the improvement . |
13 | Well-dressed ladies in large hats came along to hear the judgement , and the room was bright with colour . |
14 | Captain Tony Wright came in to save the day . |
15 | They stayed there , talking quietly together until Annunziata came in to lay the table . |
16 | But it caught on and this week around 100 young people came in to enjoy the snooker and non-alcoholic bar at their own meeting place , The Jam Pot Centre , run by the Church of the Nazarene in Lothian Road , Hartlepool . |
17 | Sometimes Shadwell came in to watch the show , and one day he started being nice to me . |
18 | He was sitting behind the tea tray , with its vast load of silver , reading Horse and Hound — Twomey came in to take the tea tray away , and with it the smaller table which held the dish of scones , the plate of sandwiches ( Gentleman 's Relish ) , the fruit cake and the plain sponge . |
19 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
20 | A group of men and women came in to share the meal called elevenses . |
21 | The maydes came in to make the bed , and hearing a thing in a case cry Tick , Tick , Tick , presently concluded that it was his Devill , and took it by the string with the tongues , and threw it out of the windowe into the mote ( to drown the Devill ) . |
22 | ‘ I left the bloody old gate open and he came in to check the place . ’ |
23 | ‘ I suspected there had been an intruder so I made Mrs. Bonnard wait in the car while I came in to check the place out . |
24 | Very few deaf men and women of ability came through to lead the rest : the clergy retained a powerful grip on the affairs of deaf people , and the age of paternalism was at a high . |
25 | Erm I mean maybe they have n't had very much , but erm but in , in a sense there 's a sort of huge commitment on their part to that , because they actually , I remember some chap came over to do the talk and I think he 's got four kids and he said , well you know , I did n't know how my kids were going to react to people fine you know |
26 | I must have done , as not only did the Old Bill and the Ritas ( as in Meter Maid ) ignore me , but a real cabbie parked nearby came over to pass the time of day . |
27 | Mother Francis often sat there herself when she came up to tidy the place . |
28 | Long ago the the abbots of Cupar Angus , they came up to spend the summer m summer months at Dalvaine . |
29 | No no he just came up to collect the rent . |
30 | Whether it was the caffeine or Anthony 's taking so much trouble over her , or perhaps merely the result of laying her aching , pounding head back on the pillow , Julia felt slightly less uncomfortable in bed and she told Anthony so when he came back to take the tray away . |