Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Will the Secretary of State ask Major-General Burden to come to west Norfolk to have a look at houses on two RAF bases , Sculthorpe and West Raynham , which may close in the future ? |
| 62 | I am sure that every one of them would want that extra money to come to West Yorkshire , as I do . |
| 63 | Levi 's paints actually manage to come to life as human beings in The Wrench , a less fanciful book which nevertheless claims that ‘ paints resemble us more than they do bricks . |
| 64 | As the coaches slip quietly through the tolls on the Severn Bridge , the Royal Military Academy itself is beginning to come to life . |
| 65 | Among the parties that are soon to come to life the Socialists , National Democrats and the Christian Democrats will figure strongly . |
| 66 | Franca observed sadly , but without surprise , that her strange feeling of love for Patrick had waned and finally abated as he continued steadily to come to life . |
| 67 | There have been so few reading problems in the whole hundred-and-odd pages that the story has been free to come to life , you can see it all , enjoy it all : ‘ Dear Miss Blyton , I think your stories are really exciting ! ’ |
| 68 | My impression of Rangoon in those first days was that it was only just beginning to come to life again , with everyone rather hopeless about the difficulties involved . |
| 69 | Tommy 's face seemed to come to life . |
| 70 | Yet with all this incidental detail , the central story of J89 obstinately fails to come to life . |
| 71 | In the shade beneath the trees he saw that the " massacred " Annamite coolies were beginning to come to life ; they untangled themselves from one another with painful slowness and staggered to their feet . |
| 72 | Look on the funny side ; I mean , supposing , just for a sec , we pretend that , somehow or other , the little cow hat actually managed to come to life . |
| 73 | And then , as though it had been waiting there to be born , a plan had begun to come to life in her mind . |
| 74 | He 'd have expected her to wait hungrily for his kissess and his caresses , to come to life when he whispered her name … |
| 75 | Not since the days when Francis used to come to Sleet with his bright flock of friends . |
| 76 | He explained that his wife was a permanent invalid , unable to come to church , but said he : ‘ Since the day we got married we have shared everything we had and I am bringing this home to give to her . ’ ) |
| 77 | It was necessary to come to church at 6.30 pm for the 7.00 pm service if you wanted to avoid sitting on the narrow side-benches . |
| 78 | Kit Widdows admitted to a little gentle crusading taking place here , being convinced that people would be more likely to be encouraged to come to church when they saw people enacting something that had a meaning for them and that they obviously enjoyed doing rather than being approached by someone knocking on their door . |
| 79 | In fact , he saw him ; Willie Hamilton persuaded him to come to church , and Paul , who had no belief , agreed on condition that they go to Savill 's Old , where Dr Heatherton sustained the charge , as they expressed it here . |
| 80 | In the meantime , if you would like to come to church with me next Sunday , it 'll be my pleasure . ’ |
| 81 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 82 | In May 1685 , Exchequer processes against Quakers for failure to come to church amounted to £33,300 in the county of Suffolk alone . |
| 83 | Would you like to come to church with Papa and me ? ’ |
| 84 | ‘ I 'm quite OK , ’ said Ricky , slotting the gun back in its case , ‘ and I would like to come to supper . ’ |
| 85 | ‘ Theodora really sent me to ask if you would care to come to supper this evening on the wherry with Dhani , if you feel up to it ? |
| 86 | Though earlier examples may be found , those of the eighteenth century are more likely to come to hand fairly often , e.g. , The Tatler , begun in 1709 , The Spectator ( 1711 ) and The Guardian ( 1712 ) . |
| 87 | Store soft cheese for a short while in the least cool part of the refrigerator — the salad try is ideal and allow them to come to room temperature for at least 30 minutes before serving . |
| 88 | Allow to come to room temperature ( about 20sec ) then , using a stripping knife ( used for decorating ) , push into and along the chocolate , moving the knife from left to right to form waves . |
| 89 | Never serve cheese cold , take it out of the fridge at least one hour before it is needed and allow it to come to room temperature still wrapped . |
| 90 | Experiments show that bees can be trained to come to sugar solutions in response to an artificial magnetic field . |