Example sentences of "[subord] i come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am uncomfortably bemused , so I come to the point of my visit . |
| 2 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 3 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 4 | If I come to a word like meteorological , that is apt to give me trouble , I discreetly rephrase ! |
| 5 | That is the position here if I come to the conclusion that those presently instructing Crossman Block are not entitled to act as the government of the Republic . |
| 6 | If I come to grief , Hilary , then so will you . ’ |
| 7 | I can get a lot more atmosphere if I come to a place like this and actually draw what I see . ’ |
| 8 | If I come to you at three months with a P T A tumour , that 's grade one or two , how long would you be er willing to accept that I should have a recurrence before you treat it ? |
| 9 | Let my lord pass on before his servant , and I will lead on slowly , according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children , until I come to my lord in Seir . ’ |
| 10 | On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half . |
| 11 | In so far as this decision approves a requirement made under section 7(4) to provide a specimen of blood simpliciter , without making any reference to the alternative of urine , it has been effectively overruled by later cases and I shall defer further consideration of it until I come to those cases . |
| 12 | Money 's not brilliant but sometimes I see my name on the front page and I feel almost successful for a while , until I come to something like this . ’ |
| 13 | But until I come to you , you should not try to come to me . ’ |
| 14 | I find a box of matches , then follow the piping up the wall from the dead gas-ring until I come to the stopcock that turns the supply on . |
| 15 | Their veteran prop Kevin Ward commented : ‘ I never knew there was so much intense rivalry between the two clubs until I came to St Helens . |
| 16 | now I thought I knew what that word meant until I came to the assembly . |
| 17 | I went well beyond the carob until I came to strands of wire running through the trees , at the edge of the inland bluff , the eastern limit of Bourani . |
| 18 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 19 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 20 | I never understood until I came to Taipei and we met again , when I started to realise why I 'd always reacted so strongly to you . |
| 21 | Nervously , I moved forward , fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole . |
| 22 | Unconcerned by Peck 's manner , Noah replied , ‘ Nor I of you until I came to Oxfordshire to attend the wedding of my daughter . |
| 23 | I had no idea university politics were so cut-throat until I came to Oxford . |
| 24 | I waded out over the shallows until I came to them , and gathered the ones I could , looking up from my harvest as Esmerelda and kite struck out for the North Sea . |
| 25 | But I could n't let my mother be here , and then it was more for my brother because he had a wife and he it was more for him to be working than er for me really , cos I come to pension age then you see . |
| 26 | I run on till I come to the cul-de-sac where I live … |
| 27 | Well they 're not very nice , but I mean er I 'll leave them up till I come to actually er get everything done |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't have a boyfriend till I came to London when I was 17 . |
| 29 | You said you 'd wait till I came to you of my own free will ; let's not prolong the agony any longer . |
| 30 | While I came to the Arctic when I realized that climbing , my first love , was losing its appeal , Tony was born to the area , loving it , one might believe , even before he saw his first photograph of it . |