Example sentences of "we [verb] come [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've come to see the acting , we do not wish to understand the play ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We had come to see the Manx shear waters . |
| 4 | We had come to see the tomb of Isidora . |
| 5 | By 1973 we were finally able to convince ourselves and , I believe , the rest of the research ‘ community , interested in the problem that the biochemical changes were indeed an aspect of learning and not any of what we had come to call the concomitants of learning , such as motor activity or visual experience . |
| 6 | We have come to expect the premeditated dishonesty of Conservative Central Office to be reprinted in the Daily Mail , but we do not intend to allow it to go unchallenged in the columns of Hansard . |
| 7 | It is one of the humbling lessons we learn from living with companion animals , namely that we are in so many ways their inferiors , even though as a species we have come to dominate the planet . |
| 8 | In modern times we have come to associate the very word ‘ ecology ’ with a concern for the environment — yet ‘ ecology ’ is properly the name of the science that deals with the ways in which living things interact with one another and with their environment . |