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

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1 We may forever want confidence that we have come to the ultimate facts about some physical process .
2 ‘ We 've come to the best club in the country and won .
3 ‘ We 've come to the best club in the country and won .
4 It was the closest we had come to the outside world in nearly four months yet they were responsible for the oil which glossed the harbour and had killed the coral .
5 Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day .
6 Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross .
7 The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled .
8 Wdowczyk , after only four competitive matches , looks one of the best players to have come to the Premier Division in years .
9 For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in .
10 Following by instinct , following the trail of mind and memory that he had left , she had surely and with great purpose come to the final place of Harry 's death
11 It seems that he would have come to the same conclusion regarding the implication of such control .
12 It is Possible that she might have come to the big city on her own .
13 The matter has now come to the High Court for an Order that this is the position and the High Court has ruled that companies and directors are entitled to set off deposits they held at BCCI against company overdrafts ( see Financial Times , 28/29 November 1992 ) .
14 He had come to the banqueting hall in order to have a look at the river from the roof ; the river had risen and widened so much that the entire countryside seemed to be sliding past and one felt as if one were standing on the deck of a ship .
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