Example sentences of "come [adv prt] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We 've come down to the wine |
| 32 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
| 33 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 34 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 35 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 36 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
| 37 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
| 38 | ‘ In fact , if you 're not otherwise engaged , why not come along to the wedding with me ? |
| 39 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 40 | They 're nice old people , and I think it would be good for Mrs Richards to come down to the village more , and be part of Santa Barbara . ’ |
| 41 | I run to the house with Mrs Gould and we get everybody — my mum and dad and the other guests — to come down to the river . |
| 42 | ‘ In that case I must ask you both to come down to the station with me . |
| 43 | Meantime , he reminded himself , since the entire company was now assembled , he had better be about sending off Father Boniface 's errand-boy to find Aldhelm at Upton among his sheep , and ask him to come down to the abbey when his work for the day was over , and pick out his shadowy Benedictine from among a number now complete . |
| 44 | I remember my father used to say that even those experiences that take us out of ourselves — the ‘ mountain-top ’ experiences — can never keep us from having to come down to the valley of ordinary existence . |
| 45 | Twomey sent old Lizzie with the summons : " Mr Twomey says , Sir Dermot says , for ye to come down to the morning room — the young gentlemen are here . " |
| 46 | To get off my frustration I used to come down to the track and run it out . |
| 47 | Well it , it I expected that he would have to go and I should have to manage on my own and it was quite er er a , a way to come down to the shop . |
| 48 | Because often I would be alone with her up there : not like other children , having to come down to the drawing-room at five o'clock , brought by nurse , on their best behaviour . |
| 49 | Want to come down to the canteen ? |
| 50 | So if the mover of composite eight would come down and standing in the of the Northern Region , to be seconded by Lancashire , but as we 're now formally seconding the er the , the formally seconders will not be required to come down to the front , but the movers will . |
| 51 | Do you want to come over to the bungalow and sort this bedroom out or |
| 52 | Before the Collector continued about his business , Dr McNab asked him to come over to the window for a moment . |
| 53 | So , the only reason for her writing was to say that if he ever did get the chance to come over to the UK again , well , she 'd like — well , it would be nice … |
| 54 | To her surprise he offered to come over to the office . |
| 55 | ’ ‘ 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 … |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | The second psychoanalytic message that has come through to the public is its preoccupation with sex . |
| 58 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 59 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 60 | The fans were right to give me stick but they 've been good to me and it 's great to come off to a reception like that . ’ |