Example sentences of "he come [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pity he did n't fulfil a promise he made to Darlington Business Venture when he came up last November . |
| 2 | He came round last night with two-fifty . ’ |
| 3 | Well he came upstairs this morning , got on the bed and he went flop ! |
| 4 | He came here five days ago , just after Christmas . |
| 5 | He came here last year for our big assembly ; and returned last month for a four-week visit , on his own conviction and at his own expense . |
| 6 | He came over one morning when mother was out and Terry had gone to work — just like now . ’ |
| 7 | No I was sorry I missed him when he came over last year . |
| 8 | A week or two after Stephen 's suggestion , he came home one day leading a pretty little mare on a halter . |
| 9 | He came home one day reporting that a " gym shoe " was used to administer punishment and that it was very painful . |
| 10 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 11 | I 'll never forget when he came home one night a few months ago and said he 'd met this old man who could tell fortunes by reading the dregs in the bottom of a beer glass . |
| 12 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 13 | yeah , and he wants to , he came home this morning and he said , he must of been thinking about it , and he said well we could emulsion the walls , he said erm , why do n't we do an apricot white , I says well that 's peach , I said the |
| 14 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 15 | When he came back several minutes later , he was still smiling . |
| 16 | He came back several times , quite convinced that only a little greater effort would supply him with the treat he had in mind . |
| 17 | ‘ He came back this morning but his journey was long . |
| 18 | ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed . |
| 19 | But he came back three days later crying his eyes out and begging me to forgive him , he looked like a helpless puppy . |
| 20 | And of course , when I was down there Sunday , I turned round there and I said er , and he came in last night , again , he said you do n't wan na sell it ? |
| 21 | Now we need somebody , a ball winner in mid-field , he came in last night and he did the job . |
| 22 | I asked my own doctor when he came early this morning , but he would n't tell me . ’ |
| 23 | Yes , well it 's Sunday night and they 're always fighting and that and he , he came out four rows of the bow wi , they were twelve inches square he kicked three of them in ! |
| 24 | He come round last night . |
| 25 | Well he come up last Friday but you were n't in . |
| 26 | He come in last night and you were n't here . |
| 27 | He come out last week did n't he ? |
| 28 | Well , I hope he comes again next week . |
| 29 | ‘ He comes here some days . ’ |
| 30 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |