Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just then the signalman came down to say the King had died . |
| 2 | When she tugged the chain ( which had a pottery handle bluntly instructing her to ‘ PULL ’ on it ) , there was a raucous , metallic clanking fit to wake the whole house , but not a trickle of water came down to flush the bowl . |
| 3 | No heralds , however , came down to inform the town . |
| 4 | We came down to wash the caravan |
| 5 | Several players were being watched by the County selectors ; even venerable rugby correspondent John Pargeter came along to witness the improvement . |
| 6 | Well-dressed ladies in large hats came along to hear the judgement , and the room was bright with colour . |
| 7 | Captain Tony Wright came in to save the day . |
| 8 | They stayed there , talking quietly together until Annunziata came in to lay the table . |
| 9 | But it caught on and this week around 100 young people came in to enjoy the snooker and non-alcoholic bar at their own meeting place , The Jam Pot Centre , run by the Church of the Nazarene in Lothian Road , Hartlepool . |
| 10 | Sometimes Shadwell came in to watch the show , and one day he started being nice to me . |
| 11 | He was sitting behind the tea tray , with its vast load of silver , reading Horse and Hound — Twomey came in to take the tea tray away , and with it the smaller table which held the dish of scones , the plate of sandwiches ( Gentleman 's Relish ) , the fruit cake and the plain sponge . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 13 | A group of men and women came in to share the meal called elevenses . |
| 14 | The maydes came in to make the bed , and hearing a thing in a case cry Tick , Tick , Tick , presently concluded that it was his Devill , and took it by the string with the tongues , and threw it out of the windowe into the mote ( to drown the Devill ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I left the bloody old gate open and he came in to check the place . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I suspected there had been an intruder so I made Mrs. Bonnard wait in the car while I came in to check the place out . |
| 17 | Very few deaf men and women of ability came through to lead the rest : the clergy retained a powerful grip on the affairs of deaf people , and the age of paternalism was at a high . |
| 18 | Erm I mean maybe they have n't had very much , but erm but in , in a sense there 's a sort of huge commitment on their part to that , because they actually , I remember some chap came over to do the talk and I think he 's got four kids and he said , well you know , I did n't know how my kids were going to react to people fine you know |
| 19 | I must have done , as not only did the Old Bill and the Ritas ( as in Meter Maid ) ignore me , but a real cabbie parked nearby came over to pass the time of day . |
| 20 | Mother Francis often sat there herself when she came up to tidy the place . |
| 21 | Long ago the the abbots of Cupar Angus , they came up to spend the summer m summer months at Dalvaine . |
| 22 | No no he just came up to collect the rent . |
| 23 | Whether it was the caffeine or Anthony 's taking so much trouble over her , or perhaps merely the result of laying her aching , pounding head back on the pillow , Julia felt slightly less uncomfortable in bed and she told Anthony so when he came back to take the tray away . |
| 24 | Ivan Cooper and other speakers were less ambiguous in calling for restraint and Betty Sinclair came back to ask the crowd to disperse quietly . |
| 25 | Her coughing had started again and soon tears mingled with wheezing and she was in a sorry state by the time her husband came back to say the carriage was ready . |
| 26 | His niece , Cathy Carne , found him when she came back to open the shop after lunch . |
| 27 | And er i he that , my father came back to run the business for my grandmother . |
| 28 | The French believed there were British officers aboard , and others think someone came back to fire the explosive , for there was more than an hour 's delay on the set time . |
| 29 | Occasionally , when he came back to Cambridge in later years , and especially when he came back to help the university elect another professor of divinity , he would be nostalgic , and say , ‘ I should like to have another go at being regius professor , . |
| 30 | I went out for the day , and came back to find the room full of thick smoke from Holmes ' pipe . |