Example sentences of "come [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 've come to confirm it . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've come to drive you home , Benny , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 4 | Tallis was concerned that these Green Jack had come to kill them . |
| 5 | Seems he got left behind at JFK Airport in New York , sitting by the baggage claim with his headphones on , and two hours later , still had n't realised that no-one had come to claim him . |
| 6 | The sea has come to claim us — |
| 7 | She could feel him find the ring on her third finger , the one Peter had found in the snow one day and thrown across the shop counter to her when nobody had come to claim it . |
| 8 | She was bound to come to see him sooner or later . |
| 9 | Henry 's response was to send yet more messengers and at long last he was able to persuade his son to come to see him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He used to come to see me in the prison . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside is brandishing a document that he sent to me , but he refused my offer to come to see me . |
| 13 | Every day Charlotte and Emily waited for a letter from the postman , or for a parent to come to see them . |
| 14 | You want your parents to come to you first and they want you to come to see them . |
| 15 | They ( Barber ) asked me to come to see them if I was ever in Cornwall . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All right , nine was a little young for her first sexual encounter , but now she 's come to like it she 's become such a friendly child . |
| 18 | By the fireplace , there was what was known as a ‘ Turkish corner ’ , protected by a screen , in which the Empress normally sat either to read or to talk informally with someone who had come to see her . |
| 19 | Bathsheba , however , knew that he had come to see her , and felt extremely guilty . |
| 20 | Anne said indignantly to Sarah who had come to see her , but Sarah thought the world was well rid of him . |
| 21 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 22 | ‘ Anyway , I 've come to see me old mate Bella here . |
| 23 | You 've come to see me and I 'm sorry if you find it disappointing . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Had the problem remained static , Maxine might never have come to see me . |
| 26 | ‘ And does Tom know that you have come to see me ? ’ asked the counsellor . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , hello , Joe , nice you 've come to see me , ’ she said , ‘ how 's your dear old dad ? ’ |
| 28 | As for you , you 'd better come to see me this afternoon . |
| 29 | I 've had them born in the car on the way the the mother have come to see me the father has brought her to see me thinking that if she could just see me she 'd be alright . |
| 30 | Nobody has come to see me today about that and I think it is disgraceful that the surgery has been disrupted , ’ he said . |