Example sentences of "[noun] came [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Their voices faded into the background as Isabel 's eyes came to rest on the third horse .
2 As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples .
3 After two decades cotton came to account for a third of the increase in manufactured exports from 1784 – 6 to 1794 – 6 .
4 So Spurs getting the lead they so dearly wanted after all their upsets of recent weeks , but back came United in the eighteenth minute , Les Phillips sent Nogan free over the halfway line and Eric Torsville had to race from his line to hack the ball into the stand .
5 The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open .
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