Example sentences of "come [adv prt] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The night shift volunteer was standing next to me getting ready to come on to the phones and as I came off a call he started to chat to me .
2 You know people who 's coming in from o the outside to come on to the flats , they 're the people at risk .
3 Amid mounting chaos , Iliescu issued a radio appeal to factory workers and others to come on to the streets to defend the revolution .
4 They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’
5 ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself …
6 Aung San got through a message that he was ready to come over to the Allies while the Japanese understood that he would be fighting for them .
7 Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it .
8 ‘ And six thousand people have come out to the meetings . ’
9 The peasants , having just come out to the fields , turn back , uttering loud cries .
10 The shelter was quite a long way away , and there would n't be time to come back to the steps .
11 They were supposed to come back to the offices and do a three hour training
12 Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them .
13 Thousands of ethnic Serbs came on to the streets in their support .
14 Many experiments were done to decide who should have responsibility for controlling the sound ; but eventually it all came down to the engineers , assisted by meters and ( most important of all ) a keen musical sense .
15 his feet came down to the knees on it
16 The vicar ‘ came down to the steps at the top of the nave , accompanied by a server with a basket of palms and we all went up and got one except J[ack] . ’
17 And , to be honest , the motivation was gained from the reaction of friends and people who came along to the gigs , because I do n't always have a lot of confidence in what I do .
18 WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1958 After flirting with failure , the Swedes came through to the finals with a point to spare after a 2-0 victory in Poland in their last qualifying game .
19 Despite these important responsibilities the relationship that came over to the objectors was one of cosy acquiescence between these bureaucracies and the nuclear industry .
20 Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle .
21 As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face .
22 When you got water , when you came up to the docks to get water , where would you obtain that from ?
23 The keeper called , ‘ Sue , Sue — come here , ’ and a young leopard came up to the bars and rubbed herself against them while he stroked her back .
24 ‘ She always used to leave little warning signs when she was younger , ’ he said as he came back to the horses .
25 Then I came back to the courts at Bisham again before going back to school again at 3pm for history and then I come back and play again afterwards .
26 Then they came back to the families in batches , sometimes several hundred at a time .
27 In summing up what they learned from their primary and middle school case studies , Briault and West ( 1990:99 ) came back to the purposes of good management : The objective of management , in whatever sphere , is to improve the product and to meet the customer 's requirements .
28 ‘ Tennis came back to the Olympics for the first time in Seoul , and maybe now that it is recognised again as an Olympic sport , it will become more important in East Germany .
29 Every time he tried to make any kind of serious statement or speech for years thereafter , people came back to the plants .
30 there and perhaps coming on to the Residents ' Association point that made in their proof , that our forecasts actually show that on balance , er er there would be an increase in flow in fact on the on that route as it approaches the A sixty one .
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