Example sentences of "[pron] came to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
| 2 | I came to the rapid conclusion that anyone tackling it must be either incredibly brave , extremely stupid — or both ! |
| 3 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |
| 4 | 267 , which came to the Privy Council just before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was created , provides a valuable illustration of the fact that in the absence of such arrangements as were made between the Inns of Court and the judges in this country , the power to judges to determine who were fit and proper persons to practise before them , where it existed , was regarded as essential for the due administration of justice . |
| 5 | Other sources observe that HP and Sun , who came to the MAS announcement as cheerleaders , did not exactly pledge to adopt it leaving only IBM who was already involved . |
| 6 | Thanks to all those who came to the lovely Garden Party held in aid of CAFOD last Thursday evening . |
| 7 | The mullah was very hungry and when he heard that the Emperor was providing a free iftar to anyone who came to the Red Fort he immediately tied up his donkey and went along . |
| 8 | ‘ You want gracious elegance , you came to the right place . ’ |
| 9 | There was a wee window you could look into before you came to the back door and she was always sitting reading the paper . |
| 10 | As soon as she reached the open deer-park she ran , and she hardly paused until she came to the broad track that sloped down to the marsh , smiling and vivid green in the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 11 | I did n't realise , by the way , that Kathleen was a ‘ rebel ’ , but if so , — apart from Winnie perhaps — she came to the right house ( or House ) . |
| 12 | She came to the spare bedroom , the one she had spent that first unforgettable night in , and slipped inside . |
| 13 | The moment she came to the top step , she realised what the matter was . |
| 14 | She ran along the line , stumbling over the planks , until she came to the old pit and the line of empty skips . |
| 15 | Then she swam along the bank until she came to the old pontoon . |
| 16 | We felt sure she 'd be preyed on when she came to the big city . ’ |
| 17 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
| 18 | Eventually we came to the Old Mill area where there were no railings at the waterside , making the mill pond quite a frightening place for small children . |
| 19 | But when we came to the Old Town , the Marshal and Sapt moved nearer to my horse , and I could see that they were afraid for me . |
| 20 | We look like we came to the wrong party — like we brought our adopted son to his friend 's birthday , and called at the wrong address . |
| 21 | Fellow aviculturalists ‘ do n't call them twitchers , it 's the ultimate insult , ’ said Yvonne , Harry 's daughter Robin Pickering and Peter Banks from Stanhope were called in , and after much research and consultation they came to the extraordinary conclusion that this was a Glaucous Macaw . |
| 22 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 23 | Jim Lenehan , assistant manager at the Sheikh 's Kildangan Stud , confirmed that Royal Gait suffered a massive heart attack , and added : ‘ The sad part is that Graham said he had felt as good as ever as they came to the final flight . ’ |
| 24 | Lead on said her father , and he lead the way till they came to the flowing river . |
| 25 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |
| 26 | Beyond the long line of windows , past the Conservatory and the Laburnum Walk , they came to the winter-bound Pleasure Garden where yellow jasmine crawled over a tree stump , hamamelis , the wych-hazel shrub , thrust out golden hedgehog flowers along its leafless branches , and the stream coming from the kitchen garden — a winter river now — hurried into the culvert that carried it on into the baby lake in the field outside the Pleasure Garden . |
| 27 | Jitka turned and put her fingers to her lips as they came to the main bedroom and they tiptoed passed . |
| 28 | The expedition then sailed out into the Pacific until , 600 miles from the mainland , they came to the lonely archipelago of the Galapagos . |
| 29 | He 'd thought he 'd die himself , he said when they came to the white iron gate , he 'd thought he 'd die when he 'd heard the woman 's scream , sharp as a blade above the whine of the wind and the rain . |
| 30 | There was a catch in her voice and he took her arm as they came to the magnificent front of the cathedral . |