Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] come [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here .
2 No I 've just come back to it and I find my lunch box overflowing with crisp packets .
3 I 've only just started so he said er I 've just come down to you know .
4 I have not come here to be deported .
5 Demand is so high that there is bound to be plenty of interest in two new properties in need of some tender loving care which have just come on to the market .
6 MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election .
7 One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’
8 ‘ I think you 'd better come up to my room , ’ she mimicked again .
9 Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out .
10 ‘ Well , you 'd better come up to my office and we 'll talk things over . ’
11 They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’
12 Neither the size of the orchestras nor the size of the stage seems to have deterred you from staging major works by Verdi — Un ballo in maschera , for instance , which you 've now come back to after fifty years — Wagner , and Strauss .
13 She had met no one she had even come close to loving .
14 It would have been better if she had never come here to Spain .
15 Others present included Lord David Cecil , who had lately come back to Oxford to teach English Literature at New College , and Adam Fox , the college chaplain .
16 Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow .
17 But Ferreira , who had not come close to breaking the sixth seed , suddenly discovered his best form , hitting three glorious forehands , including one to save match point , and capturing the game when Stich hit a backhand volley out .
18 You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs .
19 You have n't , if you 've got it all in on time , you 've brought it all to this and you have n't come out to me saying oh I 'm really sorry can I bring it tomorrow , oh I really was n't sure , oh
20 ‘ I wish we had never come back to this house .
21 So Adam and Eve they go and hide , but it 's not just Adam and Eve , but it 's every one of us , they 're just pictures , they 're representatives of you and of me , they are the federal head of the human race , and Paul with his writing in Romans three , and verse twenty three reminds us , and J B Phillips in his translation , he puts it like this he says every one has sinned , every one falls short of the beauty of God 's plan , that plan , that purpose that God had , not just for creation , not just for humanity in general , but for you as an individual , that purpose that God had , that beautiful plan , far better than you can could work out , out for yourself falling short of it , we 've marred it , we have n't come up to it , if that circle represented just as a diagram as a picture , God 's plan God 's beautiful plan for you and for me still a circle , but dented here , bashed in there
22 We know now that the world was not designed for us , but we have n't come round to acting on this knowledge .
23 The regions — they have since come up to London — were miles away from that sort of thing .
24 But when a High King or Queen is born , they have always come up to Tara 's gates , and sung him — or her — into the world .
25 How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice .
26 Since he had not come back to Møn he must be dead — there could be no other explanation .
27 Then the minister deigned to appear and defended himself by saying he had once come out to a stranger who called , but the man proved to be ‘ a little worth person ’ .
28 Dr Francis Odling-Smee , a lecturer at Brunel University , Middlesex , said his father , when in his late 70s , told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life .
29 His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs .
30 It 's not come about to any large degree an' there 's bin a lot o' firms that invested in what 's turned out ter be a pipe dream .
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