Example sentences of "come [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just come for the wedding . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd think he 'd come for the Christmas or even write but never a word , no thought for anybody except himself , ’ and it cast a deep shadow when they tried to imagine what kind of space enclosed Luke in England during the same hour , but they were n't able to imagine it . |
| 3 | He dies on Christmas Eve , and they do n't come for the body till the day after Boxing Day . |
| 4 | He says she is still the MP she was ; in 1986 she told a hard left conference that ‘ if they come for Militant in the morning , they 'll come for the rest of us in the afternoon ’ . |
| 5 | Soon after first light , either Caspar 's or Louis ' men would come for the President . |
| 6 | After all , a dog or a cat will come for the rub and tickle it so obviously enjoys . |
| 7 | ‘ The young pup can come for the funeral , surely , ’ he said . |
| 8 | She glanced downwards , just exactly as she had on the day I 'd come for the room . |
| 9 | Castro did , however , mention Cuba 's desire for trade relations and Alekseev , presumably perceiving this to be the best way forward , suggested that the Soviet trade exhibition then in New York should be brought to Havana , and that Anastas Mikoian might come for the opening ( Bourne : 1987 , p. 189 ) . |
| 10 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 11 | The entry of Britain into the Common Market in 1973 had given us access to a 10% repayment scheme of the Consolidated Fund , allowed under EEC rules , and it was from this source that the money would come for the expansion of the Customs fleet . |
| 12 | The young guys will come for the sport , the young unemployed . |
| 13 | If he 'd come for the race … |
| 14 | ‘ And you did not come for the horse trekking . ’ |
| 15 | " The history of the Russian people " , wrote Shchapov from prison a month later , " fills our heart with the belief and the hope that sooner or later a time must come for the Russian people when it acquires political self-consciousness and , as a result , political self-government " . |
| 16 | I 'll come for the dog later on . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If I was in the same situation again 100 times I would come for the same punch and back myself to clear the ball every time ’ |
| 18 | They do n't come for the fifty P's now do they ? |
| 19 | Does the vicar come for the race ? |
| 20 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 21 | ‘ I think I 'll come off the pill , ’ she said when he had finished . |
| 22 | If you do try to use them , the first row will knit but , as you knit the second row , where several tucked needles are side by side the yarn will come off the needles and jam the carriage . |
| 23 | The chip , for cost efficiencies , would come off the same line as the RS/6000 chips but the silicon would be impressed with the 390 instruction set . |
| 24 | In terms of Wirral , this function is carried out by the local Drugs Council which provides a ‘ drop-in ’ service for users and their families , a 24-hour telephone service , two-week induction courses with follow-up counselling , and residential facilities for those who need to ‘ come off the street ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Occasionally it was a bit hairy dealing with new Directors who 'd just come off the course , so I liked to balance things by including a few established stalwarts , like Christopher Barry , whom I could rely on to be very efficient and get shows together on time . |
| 26 | The door crashed open and slammed back against the wall with such force it seemed it would come off the hinges . |
| 27 | The locks did n't come off the animal-house doors until Jenner had cleared out . ’ |
| 28 | Zbigniew did not come off the boat . |
| 29 | How did the car come off the road ? |
| 30 | How did the car come off the road ? |