Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [conj] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tethered in the deep spaces on either side of the stove were the two dogs , Lady and Rosie , one a short-sighted bulldog of uncertain temperament , the other a bloody-minded Great Dane bent on demolishing or devouring everything that came within reach of her snapping teeth . |
| 2 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 3 | The problem is presented to them , and then they think about it for a minute , and then they say anything that comes into their head . |
| 4 | he says anything that comes into his head . |
| 5 | No , you need n't do anything except come back in and write your report . |
| 6 | The cage is made of wire mesh with a sloping floor , and the hens can not do anything that comes naturally to them , such as stretch their wings , scratch around , dustbathe or perch . |
| 7 | Well I 've got one that came with erm Timeworks which is , it works properly and |
| 8 | And sometimes they 've got one that comes on a test run with a camera strapped onto them and you come |
| 9 | Well what I would what I would do erm I would rather have a commitment for a date to start when you go out of here and if you say if you 've got if you 've got something that comes up then fine . |
| 10 | They photograph everybody that comes in and out . |
| 11 | He seemed to know how to do everything that came with running a resort and he did n't seem to mind doing any of it . |
| 12 | Hazel and his companions had spent the night doing everything that came unnaturally to them , and this for the first time . |
| 13 | Randomness , which again is something that has a precise meaning in this context and certainly not equivalent to " take anyone that comes along " , is necessary to ensure that the estimate of the population value is unbiased . |
| 14 | He plunged himself into all this and more , avidly reading everything that came his way ; especially poetry , and not least Spanish , Chinese and Japanese poets in translation , but chiefly that of Federico Garçia Lorca and W.B. Yeats , of whom he mused , ‘ I loved Yeats ; his connections ( such an important code-word with Leonard ! ) his rhythms . ’ |
| 15 | Dic , Our Daddy , walked away from it and ended up moving between his daughters — ‘ You never noticed him if he did n't speak ’ — putting a shilling on the horses , reading anything that came to hand , off on his benders , neglecting all his children and loved and welcomed by all his daughters , a kind of successful King Lear of the Welsh coalfields . |
| 16 | To even the odds , use anything that comes to hand . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's nice to be able to say that I saw that big right coming but Ruddock did n't , in fact I do n't think he saw anything that came his way . |
| 18 | A team from the Bureau 's anti-terrorist squad flew out from Quantico , Virginia , a week beforehand to take charge of the arrangements and Hamadan placed his final call to Younis in Beirut , telling him to drop everything and come at once . |
| 19 | ‘ I mean that , when the client suggested giving our sales force a taste of the product they were selling , I had to put it all together at ultra-short notice — and the only way I managed to get my people to drop everything and come was by stressing how much I relied on each of them individually . |
| 20 | ‘ Pop , ’ she continues , ‘ is just about making something that comes across in a simple way . |
| 21 | He forgets something and comes back . |
| 22 | You either keep in the light where you can see , or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you , because you can not see and you think it 's an enemy . ’ |
| 23 | Morals began to lose their meaning and people said anything that came into their heads , the sort of thing that used to appear in books as a row of stars or be written down on slips of paper and handed to judges in court . |
| 24 | It seemed to them that he said anything that came into his head . |
| 25 | ‘ I see everyone that comes in but few of them are right , ’ says Sarah . |