Example sentences of "[noun prp] to come [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He called to Eleanor to come into the kitchen . |
| 2 | He then requested Lucy and Jean to come from the kitchen , and , standing between them , he placed an arm round their shoulders as he said , ‘ This is Lucy and Jean , who have attended to your refreshments on behalf of Stella , my hostess , who is indisposed . |
| 3 | One Sunday I asked Biddy to come for a walk on the marshes . |
| 4 | He went hastily towards the door ; he did n't want Martin to come into the room because then he might break down and say things about his mother that were best left unsaid . |
| 5 | I asked Duncan to come over the road and look at the unmade road where I 'd left Armstrong . |
| 6 | Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown called on Mr Lilley to come to the Commons to give more details . |
| 7 | Theodore Bixman and his wife ask Anna to come to the hotel . |
| 8 | The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd , had flown to Maputo during the Commonwealth summit in Harare on Oct. 16-22 and , according to some sources , put strong pressure on President Joachim Chissano to come to an agreement . |
| 9 | ‘ We told Siobhan to come to the window-ledge and to hang down holding on by her fingertips . |
| 10 | It is at the point in Scale 2 , where Hilton starts to emphasise this , that he uses the image of the ladder to look back at what has gone before , and to point the way ahead : The rest of the book illuminates the subtle inner movements of the personality in which man engages with the power of God to come to a knowledge of his being , the " wirkyng in a soul " when Scale 2 is more engaging as a work which marshals literary resources to illuminate Christian mystical theology . |
| 11 | The third time she went she got Debbie to come to the door but not to let her in . |
| 12 | ‘ We have tried , but without success , to persuade Lady Thatcher to come to the microphone , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ Father wanted Hubert to come into the firm — you knew he was a solicitor ? |
| 14 | A path leaves Horton railway station , a large quarry giving an industrial background to the first stage of the climb which continues to rise along the geological fault of Sulber Nick to come alongside the Allotment wall at around the 1300-ft contour . |
| 15 | The black director Spike Lee has made a similar mistake in Malcolm X , not so much in characterisation but in allowing awe of the man who challenged white authority in America to come in the way of good film-making . |
| 16 | Naidoo reiterated that the NSC was expecting Sacu to come to a decision and could not ease it for them by offering guarantees of future tours . |
| 17 | Hervey , a Breton , was appointed bishop , the first of a long series of members of the English royal court to be provided with a Welsh see : he was also the first bishop in Wales to come under the authority of an English archbishop . |