Example sentences of "[adv] come [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silver denarius was not established on a permanent footing until the Second Pubic War ( fig.39 : c , d ) , and gold only came to dominate the imperial coinage and advertise the power and majesty of Rome with the extension of the Empire ( fig.39 : e , f ) . |
| 2 | The anniversaries , called ‘ birthdays ’ , of the martyrs were carefully remembered , and so came to create the earliest church calendars ( so that the historian can know on what day of what month a martyr died , but not necessarily in what year , that being of no liturgical significance ) . |
| 3 | So came to do the other side , went to the same routine the nipple snapped off . |
| 4 | And from somewhere came drifting the lazy smell of woodsmoke . |
| 5 | If the Germans had not come to short-change the paying public , the play of Duncan Ferguson , in particular , also shaped up to be worth the admission money alone before Scotland fell behind . |
| 6 | At first Diana tolerated the friendship , but soon came to envy the older woman whose company her husband so plainly enjoyed . |
| 7 | It thus comes to serve the logical function rather than the interpersonal one . |
| 8 | It meant also that the consideration which more and more came to dominate the Dual Monarchy 's foreign policy was the need to check Russian influence over the Slavs of the Balkans . |
| 9 | The likeliest explanation is that Greek settlers moving in from the south gradually came to dominate the many hill tribes of the region — much as , a little later , Chinese moving into what is now Vietnam came to dominate the local tribes there . |
| 10 | ‘ More to the point , as they struggle to find their way to the coast — having realised the nature of their predicament , pendant to an encounter with their hairy forefathers that will leave half their number blinded and trepanned and two-thirds of the remainder dying from blood poisoning — they will gradually come to see the uttermost folly of their own moral precepts , their spiritual baggage , their transcendental ballast . |
| 11 | But she wondered if , even given time and the success that she was hoping for , he might ever come to feel the same way about her . |
| 12 | Pious persons disapproved of its use in any circumstances ; by mid-century they had also come to deprecate the mesmeric trance , which was associated with the activities of spiritualists ( see chapter ten ) . |
| 13 | The people , by this time , had also come to regret the whole incident and they beseeched him to stay . |
| 14 | Barton means literally ‘ barley farm ’ or ‘ corn farm ’ , but later came to have the special meaning of ‘ demesne farm ’ . |
| 15 | They were Black Michael 's men , probably coming to take the dead body of Josef away . |
| 16 | As this column pointed out last June , Americans are increasingly coming to regret the untimely death of their own consumer electronics industry . |
| 17 | As concern for the environment grows , this area may eventually come to rival the Darwinian revolution as a subject for scholarly analysis . |
| 18 | With few exceptions , however , social scientists have not yet come to regard the whole world as a legitimate object of knowledge . |