Example sentences of "come [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York . |
2 | I was officially the gardener , but had come to fulfil also roles of secretary , comptroller of household , translator , interpreter , and stool-pigeon ( which they had always intended me to be ) . |
3 | Sometimes I would hear conversations about the war when some of the older men in the dale came to chat and have a cup of tea in the kitchen with Uncle Tommy , who had come to take over Low Birk Hatt after Father died . |
4 | Women had come to take over men 's jobs as platform , goods , and parcel-porters , ticket-collectors , and engine cleaners . |
5 | ( b ) That later on the same night , after Zaidie had reached home , the defendant had driven there with another man and confronted him with a gun and had said that he had come to move out Paulette. ( c ) That after that incident , but still in June 1986 , when Zaidie was driving into a friend 's house , the defendant drove up and , saying that he had heard that Zaidie had hit Paulette , again threatened to kill him if he touched her . |
6 | Another American writer , Walter Lippmann , argued that in the liberal democracies " mass opinion " had come to dominate over governments , and that this represented " a functional derangement of the relationship between the mass of the people and the government " . |
7 | He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last . |
8 | But the instructions were no more effective here than in the Ukraine , and , as we shall see , it was Georgia that came to sum up Lenin 's revulsion not only at the implementation of Party policy in the national field , but also at the general evolution of the Party . |
9 | In the second half United came bouncing back thanks to Richard Hill . |
10 | Well , I saw his van really , once when he came to pick up Billy when they were going off somewhere for the weekend . |
11 | Then an order came to pick up Weibel again ‘ I had to hide my dismay when Weibel was bought back without a blindfold — a sure sign that he was to be killed . ’ |
12 | Mm , cos that 's what Jesus came to buy back God 's spirit |
13 | Gabby came bowling down Jim 's driveway in a truck . |
14 | He forgot that when he came to hang up Vechey 's corpse the river would have risen , covering any suitable platform for a suicide to stand on . ’ |
15 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
16 | The contributors ' arguments became a little less convincing when they came to explain why mantras were used . |
17 | they got a death in the family today and then he said that 's what we 've come , we 've coming to pick up granddad , so I reckon that is |
18 | ‘ We 've got basic furniture , equipment and stationery ; the telephone people are here and the gas people are coming to fix up radiators . ’ |
19 | When Izzie did not come to fluff out Gabriel 's hair and tie the laces of his shirt before the performance , he thought she must be angry with him and he was sorry . |
20 | Equally , Jews may come to recognise how Poles feel that the suffering faced by the nation as a whole in the war was overshadowed by the Holocaust . |
21 | Had she come to sound out Zoe 's reaction ? |
22 | ‘ Have you come to pick up Honecker 's luggage ? ’ |
23 | Nurtured from their East End up bringing under the patronage of Punk revolutionary Jimmy Pursey , producer of their debut ‘ Flares & Slippers ’ EP , they fast became the sort of blokes you 'd avoid in the kebab shop come chucking out time . |
24 | Nurtured from their East End up bringing under the patronage of Punk revolutionary Jimmy Pursey , producer of their debut ‘ Flares & Slippers ’ EP , they fast became the sort of blokes you 'd avoid in the kebab shop come chucking out time . |
25 | Come come here mummy ! |