Example sentences of "he come [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever Annunciata came to fetch the child she was firm : he must go at once or otherwise his mother would be displeased and might not allow him to come at all . |
| 2 | At the end of the day Child and I were cursing our luck and Douglas Hamilton was waxing lyrical about the placidity of the beasts , who had allowed him to come within six yards of them . |
| 3 | Jimmy saw him coming through blurred vision and wished that he could get to his feet , but he could n't move . |
| 4 | You 'd think no-one else had ever made a film except him and you can see him coming on all good mates with the crew so they 'll make things easier for him when he gets in front of camera , so he looks five years younger and I get the shiny nose . |
| 5 | ‘ It 'll soon be dark and then we wo n't be able to see him coming at all . ’ |
| 6 | Until the two old ladies with their umbrellas shattered his dream , he had walked through the streets of Brighton as if it were his own kingdom , doffing his flat cap to passers-by who could n't help hearing him coming from two blocks away . |
| 7 | The story is , that in bygone days before the advent of the white man , there was a young Siwash Indian whose ardent love of nature made him come to that point of land on the inlet every day to watch the sunset . |
| 8 | They are the best , they 're made in Smithfield , Smithfield market , and they 're the best ones yo I certainly have n't seen him come across any that are better . |
| 9 | His right shoulder crashes forward as he spins , to jolt me off balance and let him come in close . |
| 10 | I said to him come at four . |
| 11 | Perhaps the best tribute to him comes from Cornish poet Charles Causley , who wrote of Neville Burnard of Altarnum : |
| 12 | Had he come to this after all in the twelve years , the couch of age and decrepitude ? |
| 13 | He came to political maturity when the world was wrecked ; he sees himself as a man who can put back together what others have broken . |
| 14 | By the 1640s , when he came to political prominence , he was a leading member of the Goldsmiths ' Company and a successful banker and financier . |
| 15 | He came to two of my concerts and afterwards we had a long talk . |
| 16 | He came to one of the fragments , sniffed it and tasted it . |
| 17 | It was only when he came to 1936 that Damiani 's face grew suddenly cold and his hands , until now resting quietly on his knees , began to move in agitation . |
| 18 | You know , it is only when he came to that final page that he realized where the theme came from , so absorbed was he in the process of composition . |
| 19 | It was while teaching a form called ‘ the sink ’ — the exam failures and the less bright — that he came to that perception which all good teachers share : to inspire pupils you have first to gain their attention and one of the best ways of doing that is through humour and anecdote . |
| 20 | He came to that which was his own , that 's in other words that was the Jews was n't it ? |
| 21 | Continued from previous page Although on screen he came to public notice in The Long Good Friday in 1979 , he has also played in such diverse material as Mona Lisa ( with Liverpool 's Cathy Tyson ) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit . |
| 22 | Then he came to some characteristic conclusions . |
| 23 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 24 | Now I hear some of you saying this : ‘ Jesus saved me from my sins by taking my burdens himself ; he came to this earth to save me and to redeem me . ’ |
| 25 | Mary Benson recalls Orton Chirwa in Britain 40 years ago when he came to this country to protest against imposition of the Central African Federation : ‘ How vividly one recalls Orton , the slight , bespectacled , amused young lawyer who proved to be an articulate , passionate speaker whose wit enlivened public meetings from London to Edinburgh , while Banda , then a GP in Willesden , embarrassed organisers with his tub-thumping rhetoric — Banda the medical doctor , who was to subject Orton and Vera Chirwa to such extremes of suffering , remaining impervious to every appeal and protest on their behalf . |
| 26 | Well , the angel Gabriel disguised himself as a poor beggar and walked through the forest until he came to this pear tree . |
| 27 | He came to this village where there was a festival going on , with everyone taking part in a dance . |
| 28 | They were moving with me all the time and er , the eldest child was four year 's old when he came to this country and er , two and a half year 's old the girl , younger to him . |
| 29 | He came to this charge after years in Mount Darwin , where the war is going on . |
| 30 | He came to this village where there was a festival going on , with everyone taking part in a dance . |