Example sentences of "come [adv] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is much easier just to come along one night and do what everyone else does . |
| 2 | You see coal used to come down one incline and the and and it used to knock the empties off , two empties off , you see ? |
| 3 | In fact it is understood that another public sector organisation about to come under MMC scrutiny is modelling its approach on ours . |
| 4 | So , I mean , they was trying to come up one day so I could watch the telly and I really needed to . |
| 5 | I 'd love to come back one day and see how such good youngsters as Simon Brown , Mark Briers , Paul Henderson , Stewart Hutton and John Wood are working out . ’ |
| 6 | Many of the thousands of youngsters who were at last night 's tie as non-paying guests may have been sufficiently impressed to want to come back one day as paying customers . |
| 7 | Now er her husband came down one day and I said to him , what 's your name , and he said Mr |
| 8 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 9 | They and many of Gaume 's friends and colleagues came together one evening in May to celebrate his 40 years in the kitchens of the world with a sumptuous dinner , matched by a fine selection of wines . |
| 10 | The pannier bags normally stay on , but this climb came only one day into the trip and with a fortnight 's food on board I could n't even lift my bike . |
| 11 | The announcement of his departure came just one day after Barclays revealed that it is to look outside the bank for a new chief executive to take over some of the powers presently held by chairman and chief executive , Andrew Buxton . |
| 12 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
| 13 | He came over one morning when mother was out and Terry had gone to work — just like now . ’ |
| 14 | My introduction to the matter came early one morning at about 6 a.m. when — having had a late night — I was awakened by a telephone call from Wigg . |
| 15 | Though the whole line from London to Langley Mill never finally came under one ownership , by 1897 this had become possible by the negotiation of options to purchase the remaining sections north of Leicester . |
| 16 | His mother came home one day and said : ‘ I have met a very nice young lady teacher . |
| 17 | A week or two after Stephen 's suggestion , he came home one day leading a pretty little mare on a halter . |
| 18 | He came home one day reporting that a " gym shoe " was used to administer punishment and that it was very painful . |
| 19 | ‘ I came home one day , ten years or so ago , expecting to find you there . |
| 20 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 21 | they are , she got the forms er but it did n't go and you 'd got to fill them in and then it happened with , but then suddenly she came home one day and she said oh she said I 've got a job |
| 22 | I 'll never forget when he came home one night a few months ago and said he 'd met this old man who could tell fortunes by reading the dregs in the bottom of a beer glass . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure he would , the good man , Lord rest him , ’ said Julia and Mrs Redmond went on , ‘ I came home one night and Sarah told me my mother had told her she should start going out and enjoying herself , and I was relieved . |
| 24 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 25 | Mark came home one evening to find Edwin Pettigrew , the vet , drinking tea in the kitchen with Sophia . |
| 26 | ‘ Granny came up one day and saw her , and she said , ‘ You ca n't go on like this : I 'm taking the boy back with me . ’ |
| 27 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 28 | But after all you came back one day , and it all started again . |
| 29 | My father came back one day with an expensive book on birds . |
| 30 | Gods came here one morning |