Example sentences of "comes [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who comes or goes in these rooms is my business , not yours ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Uh-oh , here comes that stuffed shirt Simon . |
| 3 | Even now when a bank statement comes that shows I 'm overdrawn , or the gas bill for the central heating seems enormous , my mind turns to quite inappropriate strategies , like boiling down the ends of soap , and lighting fires with candle ends and spills of screwed-up newspaper to save buying wood . |
| 4 | Truth is covered up , buried , and he comes and unburies the truth or rather shows us how we can unbury that truth within ourselves , shows us the tools we must use . |
| 5 | He comes and helps me off with my coat . |
| 6 | We leave unhappy teenagers who ‘ do n't want to talk about it ’ alone ; the tearful 5-year-old comes and dumps the problem in your lap . |
| 7 | ‘ Once , when shopping in London with my friends and daughters , one young man comes and stares at me . |
| 8 | It was/is quite refreshing to have crosses/corners snuffedout by someone who comes and catches the bloody ball . |
| 9 | , cos unless we 're going to get it straight , but it just all comes in like this time of year , and just comes and let us in . |
| 10 | There , they presumably drink themselves into a stupor on black PVC bar stools before the coach comes and takes them somewhere even worse , like Aviemore . |
| 11 | Sometimes the driver comes and takes one group out for half a day , then he 'll take another group out for half a day , or he 'll take them out for a full day 's picnic . |
| 12 | The Spirit comes and takes up residence in our bodies , which he wants to use as his temple ( Cor. 6:19 ) . |
| 13 | The Spirit comes and takes up residence in a man once he is invited in . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm going to feel like an idiot if someone comes and opens that door right now , ’ she muttered , using words like a shield to try and hide her real distress , the real reason she was feeling like an idiot . |
| 15 | and then somebody comes and grabs it by the legs and pulls it . |
| 16 | Sometimes I go to bed and he comes and says he has a lot of hit songs for me . ’ |
| 17 | But , but the other thing about giving them a standardised test at the re , when when they first arrived with us , is when you get the parent who comes and says well how they were level five in the primary school and you 've only given them level four ? |
| 18 | A policeman comes and says , ‘ I 've seen you wandering about from one o'clock to four o'clock , can we search your handbag , please ? ’ |
| 19 | So when a politician comes and says , Well it 's gon na get better , we 've got ta try harder , this is the policy we 're gon na pursue . |
| 20 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 21 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 22 | Well , Herman Schrijver says he will hire a car when the warm weather comes and drive her down to lunch with me in the Green Belt … . |
| 23 | That 's when Mrs Marsh from over the road comes and sits with her while I get to the shops . |
| 24 | I mean , I do n't mind it if he comes and sits by me well they 're not used to him you see . |
| 25 | yes , then she comes and sits down next to us . |
| 26 | There is the occasional policeman on his regular beat who comes and eats a paan or smokes a cigarette . |
| 27 | unless somebody comes and gets you out and there 's , there 's nothing like it now |
| 28 | yeah I 've got a lot of relations , I 've got twenty , twenty seven er grandchildren , that includes the great grandchildren , twenty seven which I have er to get something for all at Christmas it 's a pantomime I 've got stuff here and everywhere sorting out for them , cos my little grandson tonight is coming round to wrap them up for me so I got to mind I have n't , leave his present in the way otherwise he 'll know what he 's got yeah he 's got , I got a tape for him , he wanted a tape called Madness so I 've got him a tape for it so I 've had to put that out the way so he does n't wrap that up , no he comes and does them up for me tonight , and a friend Ian will help him as well , so you know it 's , it 's great really |
| 29 | Who comes and does the fitting ? |
| 30 | It 's about Sam and then how he comes and arrives he 's on his way . |