Example sentences of "come [adv prt] the [num ord] [noun] " 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 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 .
8 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 .
9 ‘ I expect they came back the next day , or the next week ? ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 And they came back the next day to build shelters for the Feast of Tabernacles , in obedience to the law 's commands .
13 Granted this authenticity even for the symbol , she came back the next day , nobly escorted .
14 She came back the next day .
15 Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died .
16 Chapman came back the next year , he said , because he had more time , not because the finances were in a muddle .
17 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 ) .
18 You know when we came back the next Saturday as we 've gone through the front door , he 'd gone to the Little Chef for breakfast because there were n't any crocks left to u , to use
19 Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day .
20 Tony Milton and his assistant , thank goodness , were coming down the ninth fairway on an electric buggy .
21 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 .
22 So they said they would come back the next week and see what I thought .
23 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 .
24 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 …
25 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 … ’
26 I guess he must have seen him go in sometime late , and come out the next morning . ’
27 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 …
28 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 .
29 We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’
30 erm only the Emir , and he has to give very erm strict reasons for it and he sends it back to the parliament to look into it again and when it comes back the second time the Emir can pass it .
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