Example sentences of "[pron] came to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |
| 2 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 3 | The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal . |
| 4 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 5 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 6 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 7 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 8 | It was an insight which came to her on the spur of the moment . |
| 9 | Picasso 's grand-daughter , Marina , is selling forty-eight of his works which came to her in the share-out among the family of his estate , and which are normally kept at the Geneva freeport warehouse . |
| 10 | In a ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter circulated to all Members of Parliament , the Secretary of State for Education and Science warned us earlier in the year to beware of students who came to us during the recess pleading poverty . |
| 11 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 12 | You came to him through the spirits of your ancestors so that spirit worship and fear of the spirits of your relatives was very real to the people . " |
| 13 | Let's just tell you what you look like , you came to me for a job you would n't get it . |
| 14 | I waited until you came to me in the hospital , I had to . |
| 15 | She came to It via an employment agency , and , while others slept on the floor , worked , argued , or posed , she would work through the clerical , jobs , type , organize . |
| 16 | ‘ I used to rehearse what I 'd say to my students if they came to me with a problem like this , ’ said William , ‘ but no one ever did . |
| 17 | ‘ When they came to me in the summer , some of the shirts they offered were horrible . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ They came to us with the scheme in the first place . |
| 19 | Yeah , the reason that happened was that there was no-one servicing holidays erm and they came to us for an allocation and and we gave it to them . |
| 20 | She said er well they came to us in the interval and Con was just like , I thought she 'll call me when Sally has gone , Sally had their address , she 'd just you know , she was gon na be in there and Con said , look , did you look at that dress she said , whoever makes them ! |
| 21 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 22 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 23 | ‘ He came to me from a very reliable source . ’ |
| 24 | He was an astute purchase , for he came to us as a proven goalscorer and immediately lived up to his reputation by netting upon his debut against Millwall here at Selhurst Park ( 5–0 ) and going on to hit 19 League goals from 27 outings for us in the remainder of that season . |
| 25 | The thing about Tim is that he came to us with a experience of a polishing shop so he was very well placed to help us improve our spiriting-out technique that is so necessary on a fine shellac finish . |
| 26 | They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound . |
| 27 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 28 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 29 | ‘ It came to me in a moment . |
| 30 | It came to me in a flash . |