Example sentences of "i come [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came here eight years ago from Unilever , and the standards I respected there are the ones I would try to uphold at Cancer Relief . |
| 2 | Nothing has happened since I came here 10 months ago to make me change my mind that this is the biggest club left in Britain . |
| 3 | ‘ I came here last year , sir . |
| 4 | I came here last year on behalf of the London region er with this particular er issue . |
| 5 | ‘ This is why I came here this afternoon . ’ |
| 6 | Putting a cup in front of Roy , she said , ‘ I came here this morning because I knew that something was n't right . |
| 7 | When I came here this morning she was pulling the child 's hair out of her head . ’ |
| 8 | Hence the possibility of saying , when neither speaker nor addressee is at home : ( 83 ) I came over several times to visit you , but you were never there So we must append another clause to our gloss , namely : " or motion towards the home-base maintained at CT by either speaker or addressee " . |
| 9 | ‘ I came over this morning just after ten . ’ |
| 10 | We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then . |
| 11 | Ever since I came downstairs this morning you 've been different , hostile . |
| 12 | I came aboard last night ready for an early start this morning and I saw no reason to change my plans . ’ |
| 13 | I saw his boat in the basin as I came along this morning . |
| 14 | You were n't really asleep when I came in last night , were you ? |
| 15 | I tried to I probably made myself a bit of a nuisance when I came in last time but , |
| 16 | Thank goodness that I came back this morning . ’ |
| 17 | I came out that shop and I thought and why the fucking hell did n't he let us try it on there and then ? |
| 18 | ‘ I received it as I came out this morning and I did n't have time to open it . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm frightened of the probation and the social services finding out that I 'm using again , 'cos when I came out this time , they said to me that , if I ever went back on the smack , that the kids 'd be took off me , no two ways about it … . |
| 20 | I came out seven years later , and the whole world had changed . |
| 21 | ‘ When I came home that night she was still up . |
| 22 | ‘ I came home one day , ten years or so ago , expecting to find you there . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure he would , the good man , Lord rest him , ’ said Julia and Mrs Redmond went on , ‘ I came home one night and Sarah told me my mother had told her she should start going out and enjoying herself , and I was relieved . |
| 24 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 25 | I came home last night . |
| 26 | Can I come round this evening with a bottle of champagne ? ’ |
| 27 | Can I come round this evening ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Shall I come over first thing in the morning and give you a hand ? |
| 29 | Could I come down one weekend and build such a pond for her ? |
| 30 | I come round one time . |