Example sentences of "[noun prp] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The urge to do just that was almost overpowering , but he wanted Isabel to come to him willingly , not because he had taken advantage of her innocence . |
| 2 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 3 | They 've driven down from Sheffield to come with me . |
| 4 | He called to Eleanor to come into the kitchen . |
| 5 | He did n't always recognize the president 's authority , there 's a wonderful , there 's a wonderful true story of er er at some point in the Korean war Truman flew out from Los Angeles and MacArthur flew out from er Korea and they met in one of the Pacific islands , I forget which one i er Wake Island I think , and , and on the runway you had the president 's plane at one end and MacArthur 's plane at the other end you see , and Truman sits there waiting for MacArthur to come to him and MacArthur sits there waiting for the president to come to him , you see , and nobody moves . |
| 6 | He then requested Lucy and Jean to come from the kitchen , and , standing between them , he placed an arm round their shoulders as he said , ‘ This is Lucy and Jean , who have attended to your refreshments on behalf of Stella , my hostess , who is indisposed . |
| 7 | They were just getting into their stride when they received an invitation from Lila to come to her place . |
| 8 | One Sunday I asked Biddy to come for a walk on the marshes . |
| 9 | ‘ Could a woman have beaten back the Scots , forcing King David to come to terms before he plundered the entire north ? ’ |
| 10 | In fact , on second thoughts , would it not be far more sensible to invite Emilia to come to Cambridge ? |
| 11 | The mission to invite Edward to come to parliament was prompted by Melton 's protest against condemning the king unheard and unseen ; the sermons of Orleton , Stratford and finally of Reynolds were not the spontaneous initiatives of these prelates , but clearly part of an opportunist programme coordinated by Mortimer and his allies . |
| 12 | When Trestle came to the Festival for the first time in 1986 , they were just beginning to make their name , and were virtually unknown in Belfast . |
| 13 | He also thinks it is important to build such a museum , as Japan and Britain have a long historical relationship dating back to the seventeenth-century when William Adams came to Japan on a Dutch ship . |
| 14 | When Therese came on the entire evening lifted into top gear . |
| 15 | Partly as a result , Whitehaven came to prominence in the Virginia tobacco trade during the 1740s , although Lowther had only indirect links with the merchant community . |
| 16 | The emergence of the New Kylie came in the autumn of 1989 . |
| 17 | Early writers called it the battle of Branxton , but Flodden came to be preferred , probably because of balladeers like Sir Walter Scott and Jane Elliott ( The Flowers of the Forest ) . |
| 18 | The imperial system of government was well established by the time Barbarossa came to the throne , with the established chain of command already described . |
| 19 | Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career . |
| 20 | Tension between Iraq and Kuwait came to the world 's attention in mid-July when Saddam Hussein launched a fierce attack on the policy of those Gulf states , principally Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , whose over-production of oil he blamed for a corresponding slump in world oil prices . |
| 21 | Austin Farrer came on a visit to Lincoln and reported that Ramsey was a great man in the college and held his audiences spellbound and was less mad . |
| 22 | Anne 's mother told her that she had suggested that Molly came to them while Margaret was busy with nursing , but she and Margaret had decided that the company of the little girl did the old ladies more good than doctor 's medicine . |
| 23 | 685–6 when the pagan Caedwalla came to power , and the southern Saxons under a Christian king , Aethelwealh , but still otherwise largely a pagan people , appear to have been beyond the range of Theodore 's metropolitan power . |
| 24 | Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef . |
| 25 | It was almost time for Compline when Cadfael came from the gardens after his last round of the evening , and saw horsemen riding in at the gate . |
| 26 | ‘ Edward came to Corfe from a hunt , and while his attendants were seeing to the dogs she allured him to her with female blandishment and made him lean forward . ’ |
| 27 | King Edward came to Stamford and summoned Sir Robert 's father , Lord Welles , and the King 's Champion , Sir Thomas Dymock , to appear before him . |
| 28 | Continuing his march eastwards , Edward came to within not many miles of Paris before swinging northwards in the direction of the Channel . |
| 29 | Clement 's final assistance to Edward came in 1306 when , resisting the king 's call to deprive or translate Winchelsey , he suspended the primate and summoned him to exile in the Curia . |
| 30 | Jeff came into teaching via the practical side of art . |