Example sentences of "come to the [noun sg] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Howell has come to the fore this season , being instrumental in getting Civil Service into third place in the league behind Kelburne and Torbrex Wanderers with his impressive defensive record .
2 William had come to the throne two years earlier , in 1688 , after the Glorious Revolution against the Catholic James II ; but although the Treatises do contain material which could be seen as after-the-fact justifications of the Revolution , they were not written for this reason .
3 I have come to the House this afternoon from a meeting with a representative of the Canadian High Commission , with which we have been in constant touch from the outset of the incident .
4 One young constable had come to the house last year when they had been burgled and , very laboriously , had written the details of the crime into a book .
5 Our spies tell us Hewlett-Packard and DEC would have come to the Unix International meeting if they were n't so afraid to being found out .
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