Example sentences of "[adj] came [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Eleven came through to the jump off , over a highly technical track that caught out both Milton and Werra .
2 The King , the Queen and their lords and ladies all came down to the beach to wave goodbye .
3 Many experiments were done to decide who should have responsibility for controlling the sound ; but eventually it all came down to the engineers , assisted by meters and ( most important of all ) a keen musical sense .
4 With the new Conservative Government in 1979 , Ken Stowe moved from Downing Street to become Permanent Secretary in the Northern Ireland Office — not exactly a rest cure — and in 1981 came back to the DHSS .
5 It 's been a lot of hard work but I knew that it would be when I first came on to the Tour .
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