Example sentences of "to come [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 2 | But I could n't remember where the turn off was to come up the scenic route . |
| 3 | ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess . |
| 4 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 5 | Visiting time was over and Eleanor left , promising to come back the following afternoon . |
| 6 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 7 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 8 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 9 | Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down . |
| 10 | In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day . |