Example sentences of "he come [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E came out loaded up wiv old iron . |
| 2 | I felt sorry fer 'er Ernie. 'E come 'ome that night wiv a few drinks inside 'im an' 'im an' Maudie got at it . |
| 3 | In the hope that Willsford adapts to the place , I take him to come home first , ahead of Cool Ground , Brown Windsor and Stay On Tracks . |
| 4 | When Jim , of Ravenscliffe , West Yorks , went to the police station , officers told him to come back another day . |
| 5 | I 'll tell him to come back next week . |
| 6 | Tell him to come back next week . |
| 7 | ‘ Tell him to come back this afternoon , or tomorrow — or next week … or something . |
| 8 | She had allowed him to come too close , to penetrate her defences far too easily as it was this evening . |
| 9 | Frankly , the last thing she wanted was for him to come too close . |
| 10 | The London-Manchester air race saw him coming in third , a position to which he was not accustomed |
| 11 | Pity he did n't fulfil a promise he made to Darlington Business Venture when he came up last November . |
| 12 | He thought he 'd got too much club for his second shot on the 17th , and he did n't hit it all that hard — a 5-iron — so he came up short of the green , after being in the left-hand semi-rough . |
| 13 | He came round last night with two-fifty . ’ |
| 14 | Well he came upstairs this morning , got on the bed and he went flop ! |
| 15 | He came here five or six years ago on one of our short courses to learn veneering . |
| 16 | He came here five days ago , just after Christmas . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He came over all confused and said , ‘ You 're always doing it . |
| 19 | Afterwards he came over all tender and started talking about when we 're married . |
| 20 | He came over one morning when mother was out and Terry had gone to work — just like now . ’ |
| 21 | No I was sorry I missed him when he came over last year . |
| 22 | He came pretty close at one time . |
| 23 | One hot night he came home drunk and lay down on the flower-bed in the garden just outside the studio and fell fast asleep . |
| 24 | A week or two after Stephen 's suggestion , he came home one day leading a pretty little mare on a halter . |
| 25 | He came home one day reporting that a " gym shoe " was used to administer punishment and that it was very painful . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | — 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 ! |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | He came along quiet enough — |