Example sentences of "come [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've come to persuade me to accept the pension , have n't you ? ’ |
| 2 | Also now I tend , as you 've probably come to realise I 've tended to include specific types of bonding arrangements as a functional group for example , I call a carbon carbon double bond , I call that a functional group for the simple reason that that arrangement of bonds dictates the principle properties of those compounds and in that context I 'm then using the word group a bit more liberally instead of saying it 's a group of atoms which dictate the properties I 'll say it 's a group of atoms or it 's a special grouping of electrons , which dictate the properties . |
| 3 | He began to stammer something about a mistake being made … that he had merely come to ask me to leave his boy alone … leave his boy alone … what a bloody liar . |
| 4 | Even now I am ashamed when I think of the night I ‘ let fly ’ to one of our best auxiliary nurses who had come to ask me to help when I was just going off duty . |
| 5 | Like the midwife who came to see me said , " Ooh , you 're only seventeen " , and I looked at her — how old do you have to be to have a baby — forty or something ? |
| 6 | reset and that 's how I met up with bleeding Tony he came to visit me meeting a friend , it 's only me he said oh go round and see this girl I know and she was related to my best mate , it 's a complicated story and we sort of went from there really |
| 7 | Ah no , said Mademoiselle indignantly , the class it is good , the girls they came to help me to get this monster of a spider . |
| 8 | As The Maniacs Came Killing I rolled three more into the trusty Smith and West Point and took up a manly pose . |
| 9 | Well I , I said do n't come promising me work |
| 10 | Some pensioner constituents who come to see me ask why they are penalised and punished . |
| 11 | It is understandable when pensioners who come to see me ask , ’ Who won the war ? |
| 12 | I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly ! |
| 13 | come come I give you a nice kiss . |