Example sentences of "come to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were all set to come to Czechoslovakia for her to see you and for us then to take a holiday while her husband was doing some work in America . |
| 2 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 3 | He said he was quite prepared to come to court with the film , ’ the judge said . |
| 4 | A is requesting B to come to A at ( or soon after ) the time of speaking ; B implies he ca n't ( or would rather not ) comply ; A repeats the request for some other time 3 . |
| 5 | I hope to come to Ireland at the end of the season and I will , of course , come and see you . |
| 6 | She had a sick daughter , a fractious grandchild and a life which needed rethinking , one in which she could , perhaps , occasionally persuade Liza to come to Penzance with her for whatever meagre amusement the place might afford : a film or maybe a concert . |
| 7 | ‘ The man who can win the allegiance of the Teddy Boys ’ , remarked Mr Andrew Fountaine who was later to come to prominence within the leadership of the National Front , ‘ can rule this country . ’ |
| 8 | Do you want mum to come to Argos with me tomorrow morning ? |
| 9 | The students are the first to come to Bradford as part of exchange agreements with the University of Carleton , Ottowa and Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburg . |
| 10 | In fact , Flaherty thought it was a better idea than invoking the Draoicht Suan until it was explained to him that unless Pumlumon did invoke it , they would all of them be roasting on spits in the Gruagach 's sculleries before the night was out , to which he said that giants had always been partial to roast Gnome and he had always thought it was a mistake to come to Tara in the first place . |
| 11 | I strongly predict that the changes that have come about in the Soviet Union are likely to come to China in a different form but to the same degree in the years that lie ahead . |
| 12 | While the children each paid 25p to come to school in clothes of their own choice , the staff dressed up St. Trinians style in uniform . |
| 13 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 14 | It is possible to make some observations of the law relating to obscenity and indecency which indicate that , while accepting that one ought to be guided by the rule of law in censorship matters , one would be better advised to come to decisions without reference to this or that piece of obscenity or indecency legislation . |
| 15 | To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise , though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience . |
| 16 | Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy . |
| 17 | He had not quite completed the required three years out of four , but because his examination results had been good , the Senatus stretched a point , and we both got leave to come to Edinburgh for the January 1944 graduation . |
| 18 | She was prepared to come to Edinburgh with me again , and even go to gay discos with me to keep me company . |
| 19 | Married students are strongly recommended , in the first instance , to come to Edinburgh on their own and to send for their partner and family once they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 20 | Such students are strongly advised to come to Edinburgh on their own , in the first instance , and to send for their husbands or wives and families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 21 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 22 | Kim 's parents , Carole and Dennis Brockwell left the family home in Waterstock in Oxfordshire to come to Paris for the trial . |
| 23 | ‘ You think I ca n't get a woman to come to bed with me without offering her bribes ? |
| 24 | One couple ( an ex-diplomat and his wife ) , who wanted to come to Italy without having to drive , found it a strain to be polite and conversational all day . |
| 25 | We tend to assess people through what they say and the way they say it , to come to conclusions about whether we will like someone from the way they present themselves in words . |
| 26 | " It 's hard to come to conclusions at the moment . |
| 27 | Activists , educators , campaigners , call them what you will , have a tough task in this country , with an individualized , nuclear-family society reluctant to come to meetings of any sort , and a resistance to being engaged by a message that in the short and medium term questions their lifestyle , material aspirations , and culturally-engrained assumptions that Our Way of Life is best . |
| 28 | So he invited her sent her a ticket to come to America for a year in nineteen three . |
| 29 | The appointment was made amid controversy over Vistbacka 's comment that Finland accepted too many refugees and that only women should be allowed to come to Finland as refugees " to be wives for unmarried Finnish farmers " . |
| 30 | But I believe that what you should do with trying to come to estimates of housing provision , is to put together the best technical assumptions that you can , to then sit down and take a long hard look at the figures based on the erm the policies of the County Council as approved by the Secretary of State in previous structure plan approvals , the current government policy . |