Example sentences of "i come [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was wrong of me to come running to you . |
| 2 | I came to recover from calling at Langley Dene . |
| 3 | It was only later when I came to reflect on this incident , that I recalled the man 's appearance . |
| 4 | I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘ |
| 5 | At first I only wore the bins for homework and blackboard but , as the years rolled myopically by , I came to rely on them more and became too lazy to take them off . |
| 6 | At first I only wore the bins for homework and blackboard but , as the years rolled myopically by , I came to rely on them more and more , too lazy to take them off . |
| 7 | ‘ I came to apologise for hitting you , ’ she began determinedly , ‘ and to thank you for the cheque . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I came to apologise for upsetting you . ’ |
| 9 | Yes I came to back to Angl to Rhos-y-Bol . |
| 10 | ‘ I beg your pardon for intruding , ’ she said , ‘ but I came looking for someone to serve me with petrol and I heard your voices and then what you said about Brownies . ’ |
| 11 | So anyway , I came looking for you . |
| 12 | ‘ I came looking for Brenda Blond . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I know that we 've become very attached to each other since I came to live with your family . |
| 14 | It was after the boy was born that I came to live in London . |
| 15 | The first thing I did when I came to live in this lovely place , was to take out a subscription for MKM . |
| 16 | I , I remember being stared at because I was wearing trousers when I came to live in Scotland forty four years ago ! |
| 17 | After the wedding I came to live in Baldersdale , at the next farm to Hannah . |
| 18 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 19 | I came to talk about literature , and to hear some good readings . |
| 20 | She drew a deep breath and said quickly , ‘ I came to talk about Harriet . ’ |
| 21 | Why the devil do you think I came haring over here ? |
| 22 | ‘ I came to look at the gravestone . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't believe it 's such a coincidence , that I 've actually been staying in the house of the person I came to look for ! |
| 24 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 25 | ‘ I used to envisage difficulties when I came to socialise in the Bangor area and would meet pupils . |
| 26 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 27 | ‘ In October 1983 , I came to work for Cambridgeshire County Council as an Assistant Solicitor . |
| 28 | ‘ I came to work with him , shoulder to shoulder . ’ |
| 29 | In 1965 I came to work with Basil as an art adviser in the West Riding after lecturing for eight years at the Froebel Institute in Roehampton . |
| 30 | Instead I came to work as a layman at the diocesan office . ’ |