Example sentences of "[noun] came to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonora Buckmaster came to the front doorway as the Daimler pulled up . |
| 2 | Jane Melvin came to the New Inn at Pembridge in Herefordshire in 1984 , and turned it into one of the most popular country pubs in the county . |
| 3 | Many of the current members joined up after catching one of the club 's many demonstrations , or parents came to the Royal Commonwealth Pool to see what their kids were actually up to — and stayed . |
| 4 | From Mongolia , at last they entered China , and after a few days came to the Great Wall , another of the earth 's wonders . |
| 5 | Willis came to the front door dressed only in a pair of trousers . |
| 6 | The bream came to the lone anglers swim first and he blanked too . |
| 7 | During the spring the recommendations of the Top Salaries Review Board and the Doctors and Dentists Review Body came to the Prime Minister . |
| 8 | In my judgment , both Potts J. and Phillips J. came to the right conclusions for the right reasons . |
| 9 | Next the wife came to the second cavern , where there sat a fearsome bird , large as a mountain ; her feathers were of brass and her beak of iron . |
| 10 | The wife came to the first cavern and saw the dreadful dragon , stretched out all along the sea , shooting out foam and spume from her nostrils , lashing up the waves with her tail . |
| 11 | At that precise moment , Delaney came to the same conclusion as Nell . |
| 12 | Both the vet and the keeper came to the same conclusion — that Sam had eaten something that did n't agree with him , as he had n't eaten much of his food from the day before . |
| 13 | Along a short passage , the visitor came to the locked theatre door ( the same door whose creaking had sometimes disturbed Coleman in his introductory lectures , when old students who had come to pay their respects , arrived after he had begun ) . |
| 14 | Now the woman came to the third cave , where lived the great bee . |
| 15 | on some of their things and in fact two of their people came to the intellectual property thing |
| 16 | The Crown Prince was just six years old when his father came to the Imperial Throne , and from that moment on all communication — even the most personal — between himself and the Kaiser took place through the formal intermediary of the Chief of the Military Cabinet . |
| 17 | There the Welsh and English school timetables differ , so that when a morning of Medau was started at the town hall , English-speaking mothers came to the first session and Welsh-speaking ones to the second ; she was therefore obliged to give the former in English and the latter in Welsh — surely a triumphant example of good public relations and adaptability — though Wynne claims that she is still having a struggle to master Welsh . |
| 18 | It was in 1929 , aged about 30 , that Winterbotham came to the momentous realisation , worthy of Bertie Wooster , that ‘ I should have to get a job ’ . |
| 19 | And the storm went on and on and on ; when finally relief came to the exhausted crews , it seemed the only recourse was to turn tail and head for home . |
| 20 | The commonplace accusations of medieval anti- feminism came to the Middle Ages as an ecclesiastical tradition . |
| 21 | One actress Lizzie Bancroft came to the final rehearsal with a two week old baby . |
| 22 | Darwin and Wallace came to the same conclusion about archipelago birds . |
| 23 | Sleep came to the distant noise of a ship 's siren , blown once , but echoing , a long way off . |
| 24 | Linda Townley , formerly Linda Joyce a lady 's maid to Princess Anne came to the Labour party conference in Blackpool to make a desperate plea on behalf of those unfairly attacked in the press , |
| 25 | Therefore in the present case the justices came to the correct conclusion . |
| 26 | None of the Gloucestershire travellers came to the High Court today . |
| 27 | Beales had not taken any notice of other customers until a man he recognized as MacQuillan came to the next table . |
| 28 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 29 | In public , three times a week , he held a solemn consistory — which had previously fallen into disuse — in which he deputed the examination of lesser cases to others , while the major ones he dealt with himself so subtly and wisely that all wondered at his precision and skill and many educated and legally-learned men came to the Roman Church to hear him and they learnt more in his consistories than they had learnt in the schools , especially when they heard him give sentence . |
| 30 | Lina Freitas came to the medical centre next morning . |