Example sentences of "come [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE GALLEY SLAVES : I 've Come To Kill The President |
| 2 | Health authorities and local authorities must be encouraged to come to see the necessity of providing local umbrella groups such as Councils for Voluntary Service , with grant aid to develop industrial relations expertise , er , marketing help , P R help , and so on . |
| 3 | Tony said he did not feel the need to come to see the therapist again , as he felt that he would now be able to tackle his difficulties without support . |
| 4 | they know that , people to come to see the house |
| 5 | As our awareness of ‘ the environment ’ has gown , so has the meaning given to the term expanded until it has come to signify the whole of the non-cultural world . |
| 6 | I am Rudolf Hess , and I have come to see the Duke of Hamilton . |
| 7 | I saw All in Bristol and , despite a small crowd ( most of whom had come to see the support bands ) and an incompetent sound engineer , they were powerful and intense . |
| 8 | I saw All in Bristol and , despite a small crowd ( most of whom had come to see the support bands ) and an incompetent sound engineer , they were powerful and intense . |
| 9 | Equally , almost half had come to see the company for the first time . |
| 10 | Rain gathered her wits and said she had come to see the villa , the last place the Durance coterie had settled before disbanding . |
| 11 | The driver assumed that I had come to see the church at Eyam , with its special exhibition featuring the events of 1665 and 1666 , when the bubonic plague visited the village . |
| 12 | We 've come to see the acting , we do not wish to understand the play ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've come to see the Fair , ’ I said conversationally . |
| 14 | We had come to see the tomb of Isidora . |
| 15 | I think half the people who 've come to see the house suspect I 'm a sitting tenant . ’ |
| 16 | We just thought , they said , oh , we 'll show you where it is , so we drove round there , and no , he was n't there , and , so of course , we drove back there about four or five times during the day , and like we drove past there one time and there was a woman standing outside , she said like , oh what do you want , I was like , oh well , we 've come to see the house . |
| 17 | He talked of his father 's psychic abilities and also of the way in which Alfred Watkins had come to see the ley mark points in terms of the old elements : fire , earth , air and water . |
| 18 | But others , principally in cognitive science and evolutionary biology , have come to see the gap as a largely unknown evolutionary process , a complicated and fascinating interaction in which culture is generated by biological process while biological traits are simultaneously altered by genetic evolution in response to cultural innovation . |
| 19 | They had come to see the show and my guilt for neglecting them afterwards was eased by Pam and Kath , also at the show this evening , who entertained them in my absence . |
| 20 | Some 15,000 spectators — mostly from California — had come to see the world 's greatest horse , who had top weight of nine stone three pounds in a field of eleven . |
| 21 | Everyone has come to see the Radio 1 Roadshow and be entertained . |
| 22 | Few would dispute that travel broadens the mind , but with basic school fees at the top independent boarding schools at around £10,000 a year and some of these trips costing as much as £2,000 , many hard-pressed parents admit they have come to dread the arrival of the letter informing them that the cricket 1st XI is to visit Zimbabwe . |
| 23 | As a result society at large has come to accept the devaluation of the economic role of ‘ older people ’ as defined by these ages . |
| 24 | Yet in Pomerania the Poles and most of the native Germans had come to accept the intermingling as perfectly natural and of no special significance . |
| 25 | He had come to supervise the slaughter of one of the nuns ' flocks which had been found to be infected with Salmonella typhimurium . |
| 26 | ‘ We are anxious that everyone who wants to come has the chance . |
| 27 | Why had Paxton not come to find the source of the scream ? |
| 28 | On the morrow of Marshal Ogarkov 's removal as Chief of the General Staff , Western press comment included speculation that his policy stance had come to obstruct the reassessment of arms control and East-West policy sought by the leadership ; according to one respected newspaper , senior Western military attachés in Moscow were tipped by Soviet army officers that the Kremlin blamed Ogarkov for the disasters of the SS-20 deployment and the shooting down of the Korean airliner off Sakhalin Island . |
| 29 | But I have n't come to crunch the guy , I want to hear him talk . |
| 30 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |