Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] come [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect they came back the next day , or the next week ? ’ |
| 3 | With Mark and Babur it comes up a lot . |
| 4 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 5 | And just let it come out a bit more . |
| 6 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 7 | She thought she heard someone coming down the passage , so she grabbed two paper towels and wrapped them round the offending literature . |
| 8 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |
| 9 | I think there was somebody called who came down the isle and gave a couple of balloons . |
| 10 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand if I say that I had some difficulty in persuading everybody to come round a table when I was talking only to the parties in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | People who try to hurt him usually find they come off a lot worse than he does . ’ |
| 12 | You 'll hear it coming down the anal passage |
| 13 | She stayed where she was , waiting to see him come down the senior run , and her first sight of his black-suited figure made the breath catch in her throat . |
| 14 | His mother was a little surprised to see him coming up the garden path crying his eyes out just half an hour later . |
| 15 | I did n't expect to see her coming out the side door like that . ’ |
| 16 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 17 | But when she heard her children were being maltreated she came back a year later and fought to have them returned to her . |
| 18 | ‘ Lucy saw you comin' up the yard with him . ’ |
| 19 | He turned quickly and saw it coming up the slope behind him . |
| 20 | Having a bit of a rest in the winter , I was able to relax a little bit more , so I think I came over a lot fresher than I normally do for the start of the season . |
| 21 | well I , apprehensive is the word really , but he , I think he came down the other , this week just for a day and spent back here and saw one or two people and I think he 's happier now |
| 22 | I think it came out a bit more expensive that order , still if it 's what you want you 've got to have it have n't you ? |
| 23 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 24 | I had you come up the back way " |
| 25 | ‘ Let's go across the top of the hill and see them come out the other end of the tunnel , ’ Peter said to his sisters . |
| 26 | We did n't like them coming in the police station , they used to come into our parade room where our men were having food , and you can imagine them coming in a bit lousy and so on . |