Example sentences of "come see [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her . |
| 2 | He used to come to see me in the prison . |
| 3 | The elderly lady found a private moment in which to invite her hostess to come to see her in the room she occupied in her daughter 's house . |
| 4 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 5 | Since the war both groups have come to see him as an unnecessary evil . |
| 6 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 7 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 8 | The sovereignty of Parliament has been the linchpin of our unwritten and flexible constitution ; it can be traced back in our political practice and constitutional theory for almost three centuries ; and yet the constitutional authorities have come to see it as the fundamental constitutional problem needing challenge and change . |
| 9 | We have come to see it through the eyes of the people who take part in it . |
| 10 | I 've come to see you under another guise . |
| 11 | We 've come to see you as a friendly warning . |
| 12 | ‘ I have come to see you about Mrs Wallis Simpson , ’ he began . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've come to see you about your son , Aspirant . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Actually , I have come to see you on his behalf , ’ said Mary pompously . |
| 15 | You need n't think I 'd have come to see you in Brixton . |
| 16 | ‘ After all , I 've come to see someone about volunteering to go on a special mission to America . ’ |
| 17 | In the later 1650s , for example , Oliver Cromwell came to see himself as a second Moses who , having led his people out of the Egyptian slavery of Laudianism and through the Red Sea of civil war , was now struggling to bring them towards the Promised Land . |
| 18 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 19 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 21 | In spite of their divided , defeated and reactionary Kultur , the Germans came to see themselves as people who needed no emancipation . |
| 22 | Once this conviction had been acquired , however , it became almost impossible to dislodge it , and they came to see themselves as an elite , chosen people permanently set apart from the majority of their unregenerate contemporaries . |
| 23 | As a result , many undoubtedly experienced deep feelings of isolation and alienation , and came to see themselves as prophets in the wilderness or pilgrims journeying through hostile territory . |
| 24 | It is said that a deputation of quarrymen came to see him with a view to getting a trade union recognised . |
| 25 | Though unable to sally out to sample the night life , Stirling was not alone , as he had a constant stream of visitors with whom he discussed his ideas , including Jock Lewes who came to see him before departing for Tobruk . |
| 26 | Elizabeth : Elizabeth , a young woman who lives with her sister in a remote and primitive cottage in the Welsh mountains , came to see me about an infestation of scabies . |
| 27 | I dare n't have done if I had n't er oh oh I know once my my doctor came to see me about something and there was erm a lot of people used to use er some pills oh what were they called , little round pills , when at the monthly periods they used to use them , oh Doctor Johnson 's , Doctor somebody 's pills , now they would have the effect of er your period you would see more than you usually did . |
| 28 | I think that the hon. Gentleman 's colleague , the hon. Member for Antrim , North ( Rev. Ian Paisley ) came to see me about one of the cases to which he refers . |
| 29 | He came to see me with Sir Patrick Nairne . |
| 30 | She came to see me with her husband . ’ |