Example sentences of "he come [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably , it is a truth he came to realise with the experience of Absolute Beginners behind him . |
| 2 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
| 3 | Air lifts were now out of the question , but trains were still a practical proposition — as Chadwick discovered when he came to deal with the Nazi official in charge of emigration . |
| 4 | In the next record gap he came trundling into the studio to tell me that the phone call was from the bride 's stepmother . |
| 5 | Then he came to lean against the wall beside the window . |
| 6 | He came to sit on the floor near her chair with his elbows on his knees , hands linked . |
| 7 | I am glad he came to live among the villagers , and I think they like him too . ’ |
| 8 | Some hours later he came striding into the station-master 's office to collect me . |
| 9 | Determined not to hold Penry up , she made her purchases at such speed that she was outside , waiting , when he came striding down the narrow street to collect her . |
| 10 | As ‘ an unrepentant believer in the Commission 's unitary plan ’ he came to accept as an advance on the existing system the Conservative proposals for ‘ two tiers everywhere ’ and in particular the establishment of ‘ the principle of metropolitan counties for great conurbations ’ ( foreword to Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Today he came armed with an angle , as sharp as Elizabeth David 's kitchen knife . |
| 12 | He came to squat by the fire , holding out his hands to the warmth . |
| 13 | So apparently last night he came knocking on the door . |
| 14 | Cathy was in the little office and he came to stand in the doorway . |
| 15 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
| 16 | When he came to look at the poem Miss Gilberd had intended to teach , Toby rather wondered at her judgement . |
| 17 | The door was open and with the strength of ten I hurtled him through it and into the herb garden where he came to rest in a clump of sage . |
| 18 | It seemed a simple system when I got to know it , but wondered what it was all about , with chaps standing in different places and shouting and bawling where they wanted this waggon that was being pushed off , as he came running without the train they diverted it into siding , you see , sorting out a train . |
| 19 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 20 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 21 | Grandfather James Hauxwell met Grandmother Elizabeth , who was a Bayles , when he came to work on the building of the reservoir , just below Low Birk Hatt . |
| 22 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |
| 23 | Perhaps he was more specific , speaking of what he usually saw when he came to work in the morning — Eva in her blue silk pyjamas and red robe shouting and laughing and giving orders to me for breakfast , and reading aloud from the papers . |
| 24 | And I did n't tell him that he came banging on the bloody door and all that . |
| 25 | He came to stoop over the trussed man , tested his bonds with a fierce and agonising tug . |
| 26 | He came rushing across the garden while she sewed and she called out to him to come and try the sleeves . |
| 27 | He come running down the street |
| 28 | It will stand him in good stead when he comes to argue against the MacSharry proposals . |