Example sentences of "i come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I come to the beach every week . |
| 2 | The input/central distinction is something on which I shall be heavily reliant when I come to my positive thesis . |
| 3 | Harriet comments , ‘ When I come to your wedding in the slums of Brooklyn you can do me the honours . ’ |
| 4 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | The only problem was that my present wife , Isabella Rossellini , also insisted I come to lessons with our daughter , to make sure she was happy . |
| 7 | ‘ Have I come to the right place ? ’ |
| 8 | I run on till I come to the cul-de-sac where I live … |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I should tell you a little about myself , Mrs Wilson , ’ he said when the maid had gone , ‘ … a little about my family and Elsie 's place in it and how I come to be looking for her after such a long time . ’ |
| 10 | I come to a bend where the outside is undercut and deep and the bank is riddled with a conglomeration of sinewy roots from a huge old tree that leans threateningly over the water , its leafless branches almost touching the smooth surface . |
| 11 | I come to its edge and see it cool amongst the rushes , a place of little fish and soft green grass . |
| 12 | To each his fun in his own way , of course , but I much prefer to use my ferrets to the full , clearing each burrow in turn as I come to it . |
| 13 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ You will come to me , Tamar , before I come to you . ’ |
| 15 | I come to the hurdle which I confessed at the outset I might find difficult to clear : why collect first editions anyway , since the path is so littered with obstructions , difficulties and bibliographical rubbish , and the pilgrimage is often attended with so much expense ? |
| 16 | ‘ But , ’ she added , ‘ would you like me to tell you what I do and how I come to be here ? ’ |
| 17 | More remarkable is the opposition between Never ! and I come to you . |
| 18 | Or is I come to you just a projection from the voice of the Enemy , saying to Frodo what he wants to hear , putting words in the mouth but not in the heart , creating ugly fictions as he does later with the phantasmal corpses of the Dead Marshes ? |
| 19 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 20 | Heavenly Father , thank you that as I come to you with my concerns about the conflicts in my life I come to a God who understands my humanity completely because you shared this experience fully in the life of your Son . |
| 21 | Heavenly Father , thank you that as I come to you with my concerns about the conflicts in my life I come to a God who understands my humanity completely because you shared this experience fully in the life of your Son . |
| 22 | ‘ Every year when I come to Faalifu for four months or so I engage a resident pianist from California . |
| 23 | Now I come to the main task of all . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I come to theatre regularly I agree with my friend over there I think you have a very good programme quite mixed not all my taste but it 's it 's representative of the tastes of the people who want to come . |
| 26 | I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ? |
| 27 | And whenever I come to Moscow , like now , we always meet up why , I saw him only recently . |
| 28 | The sky becomes stained with clouds and I come to a stretch of land by the sea — I do n't know what else to call it . |
| 29 | I walk through the remnants of ancientness until , close to the cliffs , I come to a brown headstone : shoulder high , two feet wide . |
| 30 | If I come to a word like meteorological , that is apt to give me trouble , I discreetly rephrase ! |