Example sentences of "[adv] come [verb] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | So came to do the other side , went to the same routine the nipple snapped off . |
| 3 | And from somewhere came drifting the lazy smell of woodsmoke . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The optimism of the Section 's paper , summed up in its conclusion that ‘ we are finally coming to understand the governing tendencies of the economic mechanism ’ , was rejected by the Treasury , who felt it was ‘ academic and dangerous ’ . |
| 6 | It thus comes to serve the logical function rather than the interpersonal one . |
| 7 | And that generally comes form the flat owners which I 've talked to meself . |
| 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 | This quickened the growth of an urban proletariat in the mid-nineteenth century , which gradually came to develop the collective organisations ( unions and political parties ) necessary to struggle against exploitation . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | The people , by this time , had also come to regret the whole incident and they beseeched him to stay . |
| 13 | Barton means literally ‘ barley farm ’ or ‘ corn farm ’ , but later came to have the special meaning of ‘ demesne farm ’ . |
| 14 | They were Black Michael 's men , probably coming to take the dead body of Josef away . |
| 15 | As this column pointed out last June , Americans are increasingly coming to regret the untimely death of their own consumer electronics industry . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , he certainly is n't coming to collect the Blue Boxes . ’ |
| 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 . |