Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [noun] come [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The king married Philippa to Edmund Mortimer Earl of March in 1368 , and thus the earl came to possess not only the Mortimer family lands in the Welsh March which had been restored to his father in 1354 , but also the Clare lordship of Usk , the Clare lands in Dorset , Somerset and East Anglia , and the de Burgh earldom of Ulster . |
| 2 | On the first Monday , everyone from MY to the physiotherapists and even the dentist came to see . |
| 3 | Neil Pascoe says he 's always wanted to cycle from John 0 Groats to Lands End and then the idea came to run up the three peaks and swim the lakes and try to raise money for charity … |
| 4 | If I am right about the masculine character of the women pioneers of agriculture we can see that the fact that the followers of the Phrygian mother-goddess castrated themselves is a nice illustration of Freud 's idea of the ‘ shadow of the object falling on the ego ’ : the ultimate reproach against the new agricultural mother was that she was masculine , and therefore the self-punishment came to fit her crime while confirming the identification with her in the most exact way possible . |
| 5 | He had been serving in Cairo when my father was born , and afterwards the family came to live in England , as my grandfather was posted to the Military Academy at Sandhurst as an instructor . |