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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] come to " in BNC.

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1	‘ Then I 'll never come to church again ! ’ she cried .
2	I 'll never come to terms with it .
3	‘ Aye well , miss , if I do n't see her the night on the quiet , I 'll only come to the shop the morrow , an' I 'll put it plainly to her da . ’
4	I could never come to the situation where I would say we 're all equal .
5	I could never come to terms with the Big Idea .
6	I 'd just come to a point . ’
7	I 'd sooner come to Cheltenham than to go to a holiday abroad .
8	God , I wish I 'd never come to this bloody school .
9	‘ I wish I 'd never come to Thornfield ! ’
10	‘ I would rather come to him .
11	I was devastated ; I swore I would never come to Scotland again .
12	When I was twelve , one of my friends bet another friend a bag of sweets that I would never come to anything .
13	In explaining each point , I shall begin by posing a problem that the living machine faces ; then I shall consider possible solutions to the problem that a sensible engineer might consider ; I shall finally come to the solution that nature has actually adopted .
14	The closest I will ever come to staying there is when I pass through it to reach the stop for the buses into town .
15	We 're running out of time as usual , so if I can just come to that final line to you to consider and give me some views on them before you go .
16	I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’
17	Where he found the energy — Anyway , this poor child , only nineteen she was ( he should 've been ashamed of himself and him a man of forty ) — if she 'd only come to me at the start !
18	She 'd only come to him because she knew the price Lord C would extract from her .
19	When she left the desert , and the Sandrat knew she would eventually come to the end of the sand , the face would be waiting for her .
20	‘ She would occasionally come to church with her sons .
21	The boy had been told unequivocally not to let her off the lead — the riding-school only used the land by grace of its owner and it was a shooting estate — but he hated keeping the dog straining at the lead and knew that she would always come to his call .
22	If I beckon , she will certainly come to me ! he thought , and his mind whirled , so that for a moment he barely saw the waiting Fiana candidates and the glittering Sun Chamber .
23	‘ Ethel , Mildred , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , ‘ you will both come to my room first thing in the morning before breakfast .
24	Like all prisoners of circumstance , you will probably reflect a good deal on the whole subject of ‘ time ’ and of its strange habits of hanging , dragging , or running out too quickly , but if you decide to use and dominate it , instead of allowing it to dominate you , you will inevitably come to the conclusion that it is only wasted if it is thrown away , never when it is offered freely , as a gift of love .
25	Now I find if you put it aside for an hour or two and do something else you can already come to it fresh .
26	There 's one kept saying , ‘ If there 's anything wrong , dear , you know you can always come to me to talk about it . ’
27	Well we 'll maybe come to that .
28	We could never come to an understanding with the Communists …
29	Feminists studying language have in general been more interested in furthering the study of sex difference than in criticising it , and though it is acceptable to sneer at long-dead commentators like Jespersen , whose work we will shortly come to , a thorough critique of modem sociolinguistics has been very slow to emerge .
30	In the last two chapters , Chapters 8 and 9 , we will finally come to the question of the directions in which teacher-supported change to schools might proceed .