Example sentences of "[pron] came to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 2 | A quiver of anguish passed along my spine as I came to the last dish . |
| 3 | I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham . |
| 4 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I came to the rapid conclusion that anyone tackling it must be either incredibly brave , extremely stupid — or both ! |
| 7 | Then I came to the fourth floor landing and Toby 's door opened and there he was . |
| 8 | I came to the braided reaches of the river where it swung out over the sands , and adjusted my steps so that I cleared all the channels easily and cleanly , a leap at a time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the early 1970s , in the heyday of abstract philosophy of education , it was commonplace to draw a distinction between education ‘ in the true sense ’ and pseudo-education ; or , which came to the same thing , between education and training . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So you can see Chairman the facts and figures simply do not support either the report which came to the social services committee originally or Mr inflated figures . |
| 13 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thanks to all those who came to the lovely Garden Party held in aid of CAFOD last Thursday evening . |
| 16 | At Doncaster Mr Frisk , who came to the last fence in front in the Hennessy Gold Cup , should gain compensation in the Constant Security Handicap Chase , and Red Ruddel can gain his fourth consecutive victory of the season . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ You want gracious elegance , you came to the right place . ’ |
| 19 | There was a wee window you could look into before you came to the back door and she was always sitting reading the paper . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | She came to the spare bedroom , the one she had spent that first unforgettable night in , and slipped inside . |
| 23 | The moment she came to the top step , she realised what the matter was . |
| 24 | She ran along the line , stumbling over the planks , until she came to the old pit and the line of empty skips . |
| 25 | Then she swam along the bank until she came to the old pontoon . |
| 26 | We felt sure she 'd be preyed on when she came to the big city . ’ |
| 27 | And when she came to the last name only the fact that she was already frozen saved her from betraying herself . |
| 28 | Her eyes widened as she came to the last paragraph , and she stared at it before abruptly crumpling the paper and stuffing it back into her case . |
| 29 | She came to the last button and , plucking up all her courage , slipped the dress off her shoulders and let it drop to the floor . |
| 30 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |