Example sentences of "[verb] come to [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As far as I can see there is no evidence that when [ he ] has absconded he has come to any real harm . |
| 2 | It has come to some tentative conclusions about the relationship between the quality of argument and computer software . |
| 3 | So he raised his wings , which still bore the light-coloured plumage of a juvenile , reared up his head in as fierce a way as he could , and called out , ‘ I did not choose to come to this miserable place , or to live with ones such as you who grow angry at nothing , or nothing I can understand . |
| 4 | He had burned his bridges in Hollywood and took off for the seclusion of Taos to hide away , his life having come to another dead end , cursed by his own self-destructiveness and sheer bad luck . |
| 5 | Twenty percent of our patients would have had recurrence in that year , but on the basis of our experience , we think it unlikely they would have come to any great harm , as a result of having their cystoscopy delayed , and we would recommend this protocol to the management of superficial bladder cancer . |
| 6 | If only she could turn back the clock she would never have come to this wretched country in the first place . |
| 7 | And I further think you 're working all on your ownsome on this and that 's why you 've come to good old Uncle Mo instead of going to the boys at Langley . |
| 8 | Year after year , watching the Tories make a mess of it , so we we 've done , we 've come to this temporary arrangement , and it 's worked I think . |
| 9 | " When you 've finished saying all that you want to say about these things , though , do you feel that you 've come to any definite conclusion ? " |
| 10 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 11 | Johnson , as he did at Montrose , also employed much silence , and many who had come to one social occasion or another expecting to hear the grand disquisitioner , found him disappointingly reticent and withdrawn , even if making little antic noises to himself . |
| 12 | But Pascoe had come to this broken-down hotel in these bleak streets already guessing that Charlie probably was n't Zeno . |
| 13 | No-one had come to these dead caverns in centuries . |