Example sentences of "come [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 32 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 33 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ he said , after thinking for a few seconds , ‘ as you 're so keen on horses why not come up to the farm when you 've got some time to spare and help my young niece in the stables ? |
| 34 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 35 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |
| 36 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 37 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 38 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 39 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 40 | Top flight football should have come back to The Valley . |
| 41 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 42 | ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’ |
| 43 | It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold . |
| 44 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
| 45 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 46 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |
| 47 | ‘ And six thousand people have come out to the meetings . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ And have now come out to the barn to convince me of it ? |
| 49 | His wife had come out to the island on his first posting and , before she decided to return to London , she had bought the bungalow and furnished it . |
| 50 | The peasants , having just come out to the fields , turn back , uttering loud cries . |
| 51 | MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election . |
| 52 | In common with some other contributors to Essays in Criticism he had come around to the view that the object of English should be to develop in students a " trained mind " rather than to produce " literary critics " or even " good readers " . |
| 53 | It is understood that most of the Sun 's employees , including vice presidents , have come round to the idea of embracing Motif in some shape or form , but there remains one unswerving voice . |
| 54 | SOCIAL ‘ Sociologists apparently have come round to the belief that 50 per cent of middle-class parents who send their children to private schools would be happy to put them in the state system if dinner money was renamed lunch money . ’ |
| 55 | Although primarily Unix focused , Unify has now come round to the view that the success of Windows and probable success of NT can not be ignored . |
| 56 | However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced . |
| 57 | Having read some of the recent articles on the Batty move in parallel with ‘ What happened to ex-players , I have come round to the view that Batty was probably right to move . |