Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] come " in BNC.

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1 They looked just like those horrible Yahoos , and at first I could not let them touch me or come near me .
2 However this wo n't quite do either — one can say : ( 84 ) When I 'm in the office , you can come to see me where come glosses as " movement towards the location of the speaker at the time of some other specified event " ( let us call this time reference time ) .
3 Let us instantly go to my closet or yours and come upon our mutual trial for you have fired by soul with impatience .
4 News film of the General Assembly disturbance shows much shouting and placard waving but nothing that comes near the sort of heckling and barracking to which present-day government ministers are regularly subjected in visits to the north of England !
5 ‘ I see everyone that comes in but few of them are right , ’ says Sarah .
6 So father had to get the men up from Blair Gowrie , there was six of them that came .
7 A lot of them that came to the g to the gathering To the sports they would stay over just for the sake of getting the dance .
8 Them that come round and give you exercises .
9 It seems to me that it is impossible to say that in carrying out that exercise he misdirected himself or came to a conclusion to which he could not reasonably have come in the exercise of his discretion .
10 He was not , it appears , in any way responsible for the Montagu declaration — though he anticipated its thinking-but came on the scene shortly afterwards as one of the chief architects of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms .
11 He was not in any sense a vain man , but he had a conceit of himself that came from the knowledge that he dominated every quarter that he occupied .
12 I can imagine him saying ‘ Ah luv thee , but dunna ma'e me feel sma' ’ but it 's hard for me to picture the careful explanation and vindication of himself that comes after .
13 The plant is somebody that comes up with ideas constantly .
14 And the Social Services are helpless too , unless Andrew decides to help himself and come off glue , nothing can be done to protect him .
15 The Indian had nothing to do but obey ; and whoever has formed the habit of passive obedience ends by being no longer able to act for himself and comes to love the yoke that is laid upon him .
16 She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over .
17 My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable .
18 ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists .
19 But he had remembered me and come to say goodbye to me .
20 Watch him stretch , yawn , look across at me and come out with those perfect forty-year-old clichés they use to make the time pass easily and without controversy .
21 What would I have done , I would have asked her to er get out of the bed , walk towards me and come out into the hall way where she could have been looked after by one of the other officers , and al allow me to get on with my main task in hand .
22 Marrying me and coming out to Jamaica , I mean ? ’
23 Just you wait until somebody falls in love with me and comes to live here , then it will be off with your heads , your stupid nodding heads she snapped .
24 But if he was caught with the with the crown , by his opponents before he circled them and came back to his own allies … then he had to go outside the camp , and he was called a [ maggot ! ] .
25 Rose caught sight of them and came rushing across , dodging between the tables and nearly sending a waiter flying .
26 To be absolutely sure she followed one of them and came to the place where they curved round in front of a tree and retreated .
27 After much beeping someone heard them and came out — they were still stuck .
28 ‘ We got him halfway up the lane and we got so tired and I left them and came on ahead , ’ Sacco blurted out .
29 It was mid-morning before the Constable remembered them and came to unbolt the lock-up .
30 She had met him in the Coupole the night before when she was sitting with her friends from the atelier , and he 'd known one of them and come over .
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