Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who 've actually come in to see the shows to get there point of view to say what they like and what they dislike . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Twice Ferdinando had come down to spend the night with her and twice she had refused him without offering any adequate reason . |
| 5 | Just before she had gone up to rest and change for dinner , Robert 's daughter , Alice , had come down to see the company . |
| 6 | The boxcar , one of ten , had been parked in the marshalling-yards at Tobolsk for nearly twenty-four hours when the railway workers had come along to feed the sheep and hitch the cars on to a new engine . |
| 7 | I was longing to say no when she rang on Sunday but simply could not — she is married to a German and only comes home to Scotland once a year because of the costs , and I know how much she likes to come through to see the shops and friends . |
| 8 | Organ jazz has long been club-trendy , but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and John Patton . |
| 9 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yes oh yes another about another six years probably but we had to come back to educate the kids . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | It 's come round to collect the money she asked for it . |
| 14 | Just then the signalman came down to say the King had died . |
| 15 | ‘ The Scotch lassies came down to do the herring for the barrel processing , the same as the Dutch , the pickle processing , and some splitting for kippers in the fish-houses . |
| 16 | The very word ‘ Somerset ’ ( Sumorsaetan ) is Anglo-Saxon , possibly meaning ‘ summer dwellers ’ , men who came down to graze the levels in summer-time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No heralds , however , came down to inform the town . |
| 19 | ‘ No , Father , there 's yet one more to be seen , a young man from a neighbouring hamlet who came down to help the carters . |
| 20 | We came down to wash the caravan |
| 21 | Several players were being watched by the County selectors ; even venerable rugby correspondent John Pargeter came along to witness the improvement . |
| 22 | Well-dressed ladies in large hats came along to hear the judgement , and the room was bright with colour . |
| 23 | Coun Thorne-Wallis said : ‘ I was pleased they came along to check the fences . |
| 24 | Captain Tony Wright came in to save the day . |
| 25 | that they came in to snatch the bodies and they put a a double watch on . |
| 26 | They stayed there , talking quietly together until Annunziata came in to lay the table . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Sometimes Shadwell came in to watch the show , and one day he started being nice to me . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Special Forces seized control of the main dams on the canal , and prepared landing grounds for the helicopter-borne troops who came in to block the roads and defend the canal against guerrilla attacks from the pro-Noriega armed militia , the Dignity Battalions . |