Example sentences of "we come [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landlord knew me , for Benjamin and I often lodged there when we came up to town . |
| 2 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 3 | My dad was once testing me on my biology and we came up to these films and the subject of drugs and I said just , you know , just as a joke and I thought he would just laugh it off , I said have you done any ? |
| 4 | We came on to the dirt road and a woman in a fluttering robe of pale pink organza walked towards us . |
| 5 | When we came down to breakfast the other guests were so absorbed in some news in the morning papers that they forgot the usual ragging of newlyweds . |
| 6 | Having survived ten days in the Caribbean unbeaten and relatively unscathed , in St Kitts we came down to earth with a large thump and were soundly thrashed by the island 's powerful side , which contained several hard hitting batsmen . |
| 7 | And then we came down to Frinton and Felixstowe when London so . |
| 8 | The script gave one a hint of what they were all about , but after that it was a question of backwards and forwards passing of sketches , ideas on backs of envelopes , bits of paper until ultimately we came down to this pepper-pot shape which Ray then had to translate into something which could be manipulated and made to work — which he did brilliantly . |
| 9 | We were not very popular when we came down to the sitting-room . |
| 10 | Well it was during the height of the er blitz ; we went in convoy from Liverpool , way north up amongst the icebergs which was exciting , and er then we came down to St Lawrence to Montreal , and then went down to er New York , and then eventually to er , we were dispersed around the countryside , and , and er we were fortunate enough to be sent to Cincinnati . |
| 11 | Mick Ronson : ‘ We toured the States followed by Japan , and by the time we came back to England , it was beginning to really snowball . |
| 12 | ‘ Whenever we came back to Woodbrook after a long absence , the servants would always have a fire and a meal ready to greet us , ’ Phoebe 's sister Antoinette once told me . |
| 13 | And then we came back to them , one after the other , and said , ‘ Now , where does this take us ? ’ |
| 14 | So when we came back to Lebanon , we created this youth movement . ’ |
| 15 | At the end of the school we came back to our flat in Glasgow again . |
| 16 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 17 | When we came back to Haworth , I could see everything clearly at last — our home , the church , the graveyard , the moors , the faces of my Emily and Anne ! |
| 18 | A month later , we came back to England . |
| 19 | We came back to this great reception and the party began . |
| 20 | mother 's house in because my father was in in the first world war so my mum had to go to live with my grandmother and er I was born there and er then when my father came home we came back to my mum came back to she ha got a little house somewhere I forget where it was street , does n't s it 's not there any more . |
| 21 | It was only as we came in to Maidstone and I started looking for Hospital signs that I began to suffer the nervous Whirling Pits way down in my stomach . |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't we come up to the hill ? ’ asked someone . |
| 23 | Can we come back to the criteria and I probably ought to refer you lar really to the I I know this is set out a little br a s rather shorthanded fashion . |
| 24 | When we come up to date with the recent rise of ‘ law and order ideology ’ encouraged by politicians of the Right , Marxists need have little difficulty perceiving whose interests are being served ( Hall et al. , 1979 ; Hall 1979 , 1990 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Neither was I. The reason I intend to keep my stake in this house is so that Kirsty and I can use it when we come up to Scotland . ’ |
| 26 | So anyway we come up to the roundabout and she never . |
| 27 | Once again , we come round to the payment of the annual subscription . |
| 28 | Well we come round to what happens in a moment to As and Bs . |
| 29 | We can consider reasonably clear cut examples of the use of local landmarks and of home stimuli , but when we come on to a possible map sense we shall move into one of the more unsettled areas of the science . |
| 30 | All social behaviour is mediated and organized by communication , and before we come on to such social , and anti-social , topics as fighting , sex , and altruism , we should consider the means by which these interactions are controlled . |