Example sentences of "come [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And since the town is now totally overrun with lead swingers , how come that survey the other week claimed it was just about pollution free ? |
| 2 | Following a frantic phone call from the Hygiene Manager of a major food producing client near York to come and identify a ‘ slug ’ , surveyor Bob Harris from Hull was presented with a leech which had mysteriously appeared right in the middle of the factory . |
| 3 | Further to the first point of order , is it an order for the press to hear about the proposed rise in prescription charges before this house and would n't it have not been better if the Secretary of State to come and made a statement and we could have questioned her about it . |
| 4 | Accordingly I telephoned him quite early the next morning and received a cordial invitation to come and drink a cup of coffee with him in his home in Lord North Street . |
| 5 | I hope they do n't ask me to come and do a benefit concert up there . |
| 6 | Why did you leave such a good hospital to come and do a holiday job ? ’ |
| 7 | The in-service kind of erm activity is of course reflected in our , many of our courses , not merely in short courses , but in the fact that we run erm Masters courses , erm M As in Education of several kinds , and students in those courses are mainly teachers who have been released for a whole year to come and do a full-time course . |
| 8 | ‘ Jeff told me he 'd had a word with you about me and told you I had lots of experience teaching English to foreign students and that you wanted me to come and do the job . ’ |
| 9 | Well , you talked about us having prisoners , did n't you , well there was a camp not far from us , got these Italian prisoners to come and do the ditching . |
| 10 | When the food-finder arrives at its nest it uses further pheromones to recruit other ants to come and collect the food ; Myrmica rubra , for instance , having laid its trail from its poison gland , attracts its nest mates back to the food with a pheromone from its Dufour 's gland . |
| 11 | They sent him delivery order but he failed to come and collect the rice . |
| 12 | There was a little hand-bell by her place ; she rang it for Bernadette to come and clear the breakfast plates away . |
| 13 | maybe , maybe , people could just be thinking or , you know if they hear of somebody who might be able to come and give a talk like your friend who , who was very good , erm , you know , we could make a note of it and , or ask people , you know , could talk to talk or something that sort . |
| 14 | Having asked Jane Pargeter to come and give a formal statement at Chester Row , Blanche halted just outside the open door to the flat . |
| 15 | Ah well , you know when the , they used to come and give a , give a hand . |
| 16 | It 's to do with the Government housing policy at national level , but there are certain things we can do , and I remember about two and a half years ago I arranged for a group of people to come and give a seminar to the Housing Committee . |
| 17 | A friend of mine , Audrey Walker , used to come and involve the patients in some gentle exercises . |
| 18 | I invited him to come and conduct the orchestra in Aachen . |
| 19 | Is it not sad that no Cleveland Conservative has been able to come and represent the children of Cleveland today , and that that task has had to be left to a Conservative from Ealing ? |
| 20 | Do you want me to come and hold the stopwatch ? ’ |
| 21 | All in all she got herself in such a state that it was a distinct let-down when she was met by Mike Booker , the team manager , although why she should have thought that the reigning world champion would bother to come and meet a flight at Nice airport was a question she was n't too happy to answer . |
| 22 | They actually have to come and meet the person fact to face . |
| 23 | Order , or or or order , order , the honourable lady would not expect me to comment on something that has been on television , er in something that I I have no er I I did n't even see last night , it 's up to the minister whether he wishes to come and make a statement it is really not at all a point of order for me . |
| 24 | He should have gone days ago and alerted the Regent to the situation , to come and relieve the town . |
| 25 | If we 're going to stick by the principle outlined above of keeping close to the centre of the action , we 'll need to meet the dragon in the drama , to find out what it 's really like , maybe to persuade it to come and melt an iceberg for drinking water . |
| 26 | He then drove to the office of a friend who was an architect , and within minutes had persuaded him to come and examine the job to be done on the house . |
| 27 | It was here , in autumn and winter , that the men used to come and hunt the herds of tār . |
| 28 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 29 | When I went there , the Corporation men used to come and wash the whole of Scotland Road . |
| 30 | She was rounding up a party to come and inspect the property . |