Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I come across a new metaphor , one that stretches my understanding , I feel cold . |
| 2 | I walk through the remnants of ancientness until , close to the cliffs , I come to a brown headstone : shoulder high , two feet wide . |
| 3 | ‘ Have I come to the right place ? ’ |
| 4 | just tw okay now , just keep , stand here and tell me when I come to the good bit . |
| 5 | Now I come to the main task of all . ’ |
| 6 | I come to the two-metre-high brick wall which surrounds the estate and feel my way along it , stumbling over piles of earth and building debris until I get to the corner . |
| 7 | Erm have I come to the wrong place then ? |
| 8 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 9 | ‘ Have I come at a bad time ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Have I come at a bad moment ? ’ she asked . |
| 11 | I mean , I keep hearing that when I come into the environmental health department , that , just that people are interested in what Oxford are doing . |
| 12 | and she goes why , I goes well every time I got , when I went out the other night and when I come in the other night there was Helena with her arms round Andrew , so it 's not that I , I 'm worried about it but I just think it 's a bit tarty of her cos she 's fancies the pants off Pete and as soon as my back 's turned and Pete is n't there she 's all over Andrew . |
| 13 | My first ambition was to be a concert pianist , but I come from a long line of actors and I suppose it was inevitable really that I 'd follow them . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
| 15 | ‘ I come from a great medical mafia , most of my relatives are medically involved one way or another , ’ she told David Frost yesterday , adding that none of her family have private health insurance . |
| 16 | ‘ I come from a small village in the far north of Scotland . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Because I come from a booky family , in some ways I 've taken writing for granted — it 's like coming from a family of butchers and going into the meat trade . |
| 18 | I come from a Jewish family which includes victim 's ; that picture of myself was a particularly horrible one . |
| 19 | Now , there 's been lots of talk about gay and lesbian people not having no rights , I come from a Jewish society , I 've got people who suffer anti-semitic ri , feelings , there 's lot of erm multi-ra , ethnic majorities who cover on this programme , and I think that issue has to be looked at as well . |
| 20 | I come from a military family , that is to say a family that has always followed the drum , and probably had to carry it too . |
| 21 | You see , I come from the criminal classes . |
| 22 | Yes , dripping with power I come from the hidden kingdom |
| 23 | I am reminded of Letterman 's tennis because as I stroll through the grounds of the club , waiting for the arrival of my transcripts , I come upon a red earth tennis court . |
| 24 | When she come round the middle girl she brought a friend with her and Ashley was with us so we ran down the dyke |
| 25 | You come down a steep hill from . |
| 26 | Redolent of exotic fruit and scented soap , it is almost sweet-and-sour in character — seemingly sweet at the rich bouquet stage , but satisfyingly dry — almost sour — as you come through the pungent taste . |
| 27 | So now can you see how politically , there is a kind of political subtext to this section erm as I say you can only follow it so far down a road then you come to a dead end but I think it 's there and you ca n't really ignore it , the political subtext . |
| 28 | ‘ Go across the drawbridge and you come to a heavy door … |
| 29 | Upstairs , walk past the monks ' cells , until you come to a massive door . |
| 30 | Wander through the village and along the lakeside promenade , and you come to the small Schafbergbahn railway , which winds its way to the top of the Schafberg mountain behind the village . |