Example sentences of "come here [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has n't come here for the Portrush air and must not be written off . ’ |
| 2 | If she was so genteel , she would n't have come here for the pittance she 's paid . |
| 3 | The first prisoners had come here in the days when the state of war between England and Germany was still largely theoretical . |
| 4 | He had come here in the autumn of 1920 . |
| 5 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 6 | Vice-chairman Sydney Moss revealed : ‘ He came here at the age of four , then stood on the Kop when he was old enough . |
| 7 | Whores of all sexes , augmented and non- , came here at the start and end of their shift to meet pimps , pushers , and ‘ privileged ’ clients . |
| 8 | I came here at the instigation of your letter , believing myself to have secured a position . |
| 9 | ‘ Bess Halidon , your mother , gave me proof of it when she came here on the day prior to her death and asked that you be found employment . ’ |
| 10 | His great grandfather came here on the staff of ‘ Mr. Rhodes ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ You came here on the train , did n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | I imagine you came here with the intention of doing it up and then realised the enormous extent of the work needed to put it right . ’ |
| 13 | I came here for the history . |
| 14 | She said that if I came here to the island and said I was sorry you 'd welcome me with open arms . ’ |
| 15 | The firm came here from the Midlands , where new lace-making machinery was threatened by the Luddite riots ( see also Tiverton ) . |
| 16 | From that school of mingled games , friendliness and lessons I went with but a short pause to one where lessons were business , and a very serious business indeed since most of the scholars had already begun to work in offices and came here in the evenings to qualify themselves to earn more money and more leisure . |
| 17 | ‘ Monsieur le Cure , ’ Benjamin began , ‘ you came here after the Abbe Gerard died ? ’ |
| 18 | Another thing : You speak of coming here towards the end of April . |
| 19 | Was that one of the main reasons that they started coming here for the horses ? |
| 20 | One thing for certain , Sanders , you wo n't be coming here to the Mother of Parliaments to give us all the benefit of your profound wisdom . |
| 21 | I had n't planned that and what funds I had were coming here to the States . |
| 22 | ‘ When the train departs , our passengers will all come here for the champagne . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You think we should let others come here into the Domain ? ’ |
| 24 | Fact is , comin' here from the fence I fuckin' near shit myself each time you stopped . |
| 25 | and actually you know this Time Chemicals , they , they deliver you know , they come here with the stuff . |
| 26 | He seems mystified by the fact that , as he says , ‘ most people come here for the dancing and the music . ’ |
| 27 | Well , Christine takes him up there if they come here for the weekend . |
| 28 | Italians in the know come here for the beaches , yet the area is barely known to foreign visitors . |
| 29 | We come here to the question of the relationship between lexis/grammar on the one hand and context on the other , between semantics and pragmatics . |
| 30 | Had he come here to the Governor 's court out of cowardice ? |