Example sentences of "[noun] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once or twice during the Course he would make an excuse to come to collect something or other , and I think he enjoyed seeing some of the results of the teachers ' acquaintance with the displays . |
| 2 | I hope it will provide your parents ’ she stressed the word — ‘ with an excuse to come and visit me more often . ’ |
| 3 | I made an excuse to come out . |
| 4 | But I 'll need no excuse to come next time . |
| 5 | But the men from the Midlands had enjoyed themselves so well , they decided the engraved glass trophy should stay in Scotland to give them the excuse to come back and play for it again ! |
| 6 | ‘ Gives me an excuse to come and put you to bed , I guess . |
| 7 | It just gave me an excuse to come charging up here . ’ |
| 8 | How can a series of fixed instructions cause the computer to come up with a random sequence of results ? |
| 9 | It might be the place where the young of the West come to be seen , but it is the old guard who hold their ground , the poets and writers , pamphleteers and musicians who leave their mark on the atmosphere of this enchanted city . |
| 10 | A Teller from the west come to take service in Ralarth and learn a few more tales from the Dales people . |
| 11 | ‘ I did so want Isabel to come , too . |
| 12 | If she could only persuade Isabel to come downstairs , other than for meals , to talk to her , to listen to the radio , not to be afraid of meeting the butcher or the postman or whatever visitor might call . |
| 13 | The urge to do just that was almost overpowering , but he wanted Isabel to come to him willingly , not because he had taken advantage of her innocence . |
| 14 | It was still believed , or at any rate hoped , that the refugees would in due course come to terms with their situation and accept resettlement . |
| 15 | Devolution may in due course come to Northern Ireland , but before it arrives do not the Government have it in their power , at a stroke , to restore some degree of democracy to the people of Ulster by establishing a Select Committee ? |
| 16 | ‘ It took ages to come out and we had no control over the artwork . |
| 17 | I mean we have dealings with solicitors for all sorts of things , asking for reports and we send a lot of notes away to have a lot of er medical opinion reports and they take ages to come back . |
| 18 | Partnerships take ages to come up . ’ |
| 19 | Mine , th they 're , they 're taking ages to come up , I mean |
| 20 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 21 | Can we catch up , by a little clairvoyance , on the persistent tendency of state provision to come thirty years late ? |
| 22 | ‘ And then , ’ Corbett interrupted smoothly , ‘ she allowed the royal whore to come and stay in your midst ? ’ |
| 23 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
| 24 | They were afraid of their shite to come out of the towns . |
| 25 | Fear was there , certainly , and also an inability to come to terms with what had happened , but there was something more . |
| 26 | Callinicos ' conclusion to these arguments is that despite their efforts , built around a claimed contrast of the postmodern either with or within Modernism , these authors have produced only ‘ mutually and often internally inconsistent accounts ’ of the ‘ postmodern ’ , manifesting an ‘ inability to come up with a plausible and coherent account of its distinguishing characteristics ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 27 | Whether it is the timidly smiling cleric having tea , the piously confident student talking about the way in which Jesus warms up his or her heart , or the aggressively confident know-all trying to recall the country to ‘ civilisation ’ , it is a similar picture of inability to come to terms with the way in which most people in Western societies live . |
| 28 | This can also happen when a doctor experiences discomfort in the face of death , or an inability to come to terms with his own helplessness . |
| 29 | ‘ Not your day , is it , Duvall ? ’ said Jimmy , and Duvall glared hard at him again with a look that spoke again of reckonings to come after the nightmare was over . |
| 30 | The book becomes gripping once allows his own interests and opinions to come closer to the surface . |