Example sentences of "he [conj] [pron] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rushed after him , almost bumping into him as he came to an abrupt halt in the kitchen doorway . |
| 2 | There was , however , an instinct in him when it came to Judith that he 'd never experienced with any other woman . |
| 3 | In 1981 Seve asked me if I 'd do a few tournaments with him when he came to the States . |
| 4 | Thirteen years as auxiliary Bishop in one of the largest diocese in England provided a wealth of experience and opportunities for reflection which Bishop Augustine Harris brought with him when he came to Middlesbrough in November 1978 , as the fifth bishop of the diocese , in succession to the late Bishop John . |
| 5 | She stumbled after him the length of the church portico , bumping against him when he came to a sudden stop . |
| 6 | A townscape of nightmare yellows : sky , buildings , furniture , wallpaper , faces — the colour of age , heat , pestilence , bile and jaundice , bruisings and stainings , with a stronger connotation of dirt in Russian than in English ; the colour of the tickets of identification which prostitutes were required to carry ; the colour of Raskolnikov 's ‘ cubbyhole ’ of a room ; and the colour which greets him when he comes to after fainting at the police station and sees a man ‘ holding a yellow glass filled with yellow water ’ . |
| 7 | Apart from an explanation of the reason for the survey , how he or she came to be selected , a guarantee of anonymity , etc. , each question must maintain the respondent 's cooperation by treating him or her with courtesy and gratitude — a few ‘ pleases ’ and a ‘ thank you ’ are essential . |
| 8 | And he 'd got a boy who did stutter and he always used to go to granddad before er he when he came to school , before lessons and he 'd give him this pebble and he 'd say , now you can put it in your pocket . |
| 9 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |