Example sentences of "came [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came to see me with Sir Patrick Nairne . |
| 2 | You came to see me on Sunday , ’ she added , in case Loretta had forgotten . |
| 3 | Mr. Docherty came to see me in April , desperately concerned because he was homeless and had insufficient money with which to feed himself . |
| 4 | One of the reasons for this preference may be that I first came to know it at Windrush . |
| 5 | He did n't want to be invited to the party but it would have been nice to have friends like that who came to meet you from Vienna and were delighted to see you . |
| 6 | He sent her a copy of Madame Bovary ( she thanked him , pronounced the novel ‘ hideous ’ , and quoted at him Philip James Bailey , author of Festus , on the writer 's duty to give moral instruction to the reader ) ; and forty years after that first meeting in Trouville she came to visit him at Croisset . |
| 7 | After Hocazade 's appointment to the kazaskerlik some years later , his father and brothers came to visit him in Edirne . |
| 8 | When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river . |
| 9 | I was hoping that Jane would type my application , but when she came to visit me in Cambridge , she had her arm in plaster , having broken it . |
| 10 | It was quite unheard of in the Army for such a small unit to have its own self-designed insignia , but some months later Stirling , quite undismayed , wore his cap badge on parade when General Auchinleck came to inspect them at Kabrit . |
| 11 | After Clare 's six weeks of personal fitness training at home , as recommended by the marines , the day came to deliver her to Easthampstead Park for the 36-hour preparation period before the flight to Borneo . |