Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] come [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 'd better come over here , anyway . ’
2 ‘ You 'd better come to the flat with me for a start , as soon as the warrant arrives .
3 ‘ I think you 'd better come with me too .
4 ‘ You 'd better come with me , Angela , ’ said Farmer Yatton .
5 ‘ You 'd better come with me , ’ Josie said then , with resignation .
6 I 'd better come with you and help you … steady ! ’
7 ‘ In that case I 'd better come with you , ’ Woodruffe said .
8 ‘ You 'd better come with me . ’
9 His manner was that of a man resigned to repeated interruptions : ‘ I suppose this is about Mr Francis ; you 'd better come into the office . ’
10 Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’
11 ‘ You 'd better come in here . ’
12 He went on , ‘ I dared not come on too heavily in case I frightened you off .
13 Lord Taylor , the Lord Chief Justice , sitting with Mr Justice Judge and Mr Justice Hidden , said they could not be sure that the original trial jury would have reached the same verdict if it had heard evidence which had since come to light .
14 At least two of the five he had brought back with him were in worse case than he ; and Adam , who had perhaps come off lightest in actual injuries , was by no means to be envied for that , for the same story Owen had to tell to the Prince , Adam was at this moment telling to Gilleis .
15 Tammuz Malamute had literally come from nowhere .
16 The Shah had made a showplace of his country with his colossal purchasing of weapons , and look what it had all come to : ‘ If you drive from Shiraz to Isfahan even today you 'll see hundreds of helicopters parked off to the right of the highway .
17 And now it had all come to nothing .
18 Well , that was when it had all come to a head .
19 Because we had all come from such different backgrounds , and were individuals bound together only by circumstance , I felt it was impossible to criticise their actions as I did n't fully understand their motivations .
20 Nurse Geeson said she had been a staff nurse on the children 's ward for ten years up to 1991 and had only come across four or five occasions when children suffered heart or respiratory attacks .
21 As the conditions changed to the more temperate climate we know today , so the proportion of reptiles had decreased — but there was no overall trend of the kind that would be implied if the mammals had only come into existence in the later geological periods .
22 In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms .
23 With the exception of a few New Zealand government officials , the other inhabitants had only come to Koraloona because they preferred it to life in reduced circumstances in a big city .
24 The new government pledged itself to deal with a range of serious environmental problems affecting the country , the extent of many of which had only come to light after the collapse of communist rule .
25 ‘ You had better come to my room , then . ’
26 Erm , that had better come over here really had n't it .
27 Bright clear days when the Alps can be seen are rare , ( and the more pleasurable for being so ) , and if you want such days you had better come in spring or autumn when the heat haze is reduced .
28 Somebody had obviously come into some money .
29 The big man had obviously come on deck to warn me what to expect from the twins , and for that I was grateful .
30 A feeling of nausea had suddenly come over her .
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