Example sentences of "[noun] come [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy .
2 More generally , any laissez faire connection helps very little in understanding how Darwin came to take up the problems his theorizing was to solve .
3 When Jarvis came to take over the house , although a good many people had been inside it and others had lived in it , the chair and the stool were still in the bellringer 's room .
4 At the same time , in some towns at least , bishops came to take over the duties of such late Roman officers as the defensores , who had been expected to defend the weak .
5 Although strongly influenced by Dicey , the tradition comes to take on a life of its own .
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