Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to come " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 2 | Only Ember cared enough to come and talk to her ; from what he told her of the others , both the towered and the plain , she was glad . |
| 3 | When one is ill it 's the knowledge that somebody cared enough to come and see one that matters more than the flowers and the lemon barley water . |
| 4 | And ordinary soldiers , writing to relatives from the Front in April 1940 , spoke naïvely of their belief that ‘ as long as we have the front soldier Adolf Hitler , there will be only loyalty , bravery , and justice for his people ’ , and that ‘ the most beautiful day in the life of our Führer has still to come ’ , the day on which ‘ all peoples have recovered their freedom , peace , and equality ’ . |
| 5 | So far , however , the policy has still to come to anything . |
| 6 | In one case , which has still to come to trial , it is not clear which hat the salesman was wearing when he made his deals : his own or the life company 's . |
| 7 | This was one aspect of his life that Charles found hard to come to terms with , especially during this period when he was evaluating and reassessing his role in life . |
| 8 | Churt tried hard to come back and Paul Jones in the Haslemere goal had to make one particularly fine diving save . |
| 9 | The man sat beside her and , after asking her permission , lit one of the thin Havana cigars he happened to know where to come by . |
| 10 | How would the constable know where to come ? ’ |
| 11 | But perhaps it would be nice if somebody gave you a gift voucher for Christmas and it said an eyebrow trim , and you were dying to have an eyebrow trim but you did n't know where to come , and perhaps you were a little bit frightened about having one , so , it might , you know , get you to come into the salon . |
| 12 | When he did not speak , but just jerked his head as if a fly had buzzed near his ear and irritated him , when he did not greet her , not even by name , let alone with the caressing words she had so often uttered in her games of make-believe , Rosa began , murmuringly , ‘ I did n't know when to come down , I wanted to be sure no one was awake … . ’ |
| 13 | I 'll let you know when to come in . ’ |
| 14 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |
| 15 | The locals field one former Test player , Madan Lal , and although Maninder Singh — last seen being swept to oblivion by Gooch in the Bombay World Cup semi-final — was practising at the England net yesterday , he has yet to come to terms with an attack of the yips . |
| 16 | The first , albeit tenative , steps towards forming a new Pacific-based economic union display an astute awareness of the way events are moving within Europe : movements with which Number 10 has yet to come to grips . |
| 17 | Though this Evangelical triumphalism has yet to come to pass , the curious state of affairs already exists in which parents , up and down the country , fear the caring professionals as never before and fear the overtly Christian carers most of all . |
| 18 | of fear which has yet to come , fear |
| 19 | The continued existence of financial boycotts , for example by the EC and the USA , attests to the fact that real change has yet to come . |
| 20 | At the time of going to press he is taking action but the action has yet to come to trial . |
| 21 | He has yet to come to terms with the fact that a popular front of the mind or body means a Labour leader in Number 10 . |
| 22 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 23 | Despite the much-vaunted claims of Conservative and Labour Members about their faith in competition , it is interesting that a truly radical step to introduce competition into the privatised utilities has yet to come . |
| 24 | The greatest test of this season has yet to come , when they play an English side with a dented pride and one where many players have still to get over their last defeat by Scotland three years ago . |
| 25 | For anyone who has yet to come up with an idea , BVP will provide access into the venture portfolio of 140 successful US products , established by companies which have already developed their product and secured a significant market share . |
| 26 | She wrote that she would prefer not to come home , but Tony and Maureen got a few days ' leave and travelled to Kent to see her . |
| 27 | The child might prefer not to come home alone . |
| 28 | He would prefer not to come back on to my patch , and he has his own investments to look after in the City . |
| 29 | Unsurprisingly , in these circumstances the knocker boys tend not to come back . |
| 30 | Derek Jeffries was bought for Crystal Palace for £100,000 in September 1973 by Manager Malcolm Allison , who h , ad also been his boss at Manchester City , to help boost Palace 's struggling midfield as we sought desperately to come to terms with life after relegation to Division Two . |