Example sentences of "[conj] he came to the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He found a certain amount of fossil evidence that the time planes were not parallel with the lithological boundaries and he came to the general conclusion that the facies to the north are in the main younger than those to the south .
2 Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself .
3 Ian pressed on down the passage , down two steps , until he came to the small wooden door in the fabric .
4 He ran on until he came to the tall reeds .
5 Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots .
6 Charlie ignored the order and crawled quickly forward until he came to the prostrate body of his friend .
7 But instead of releasing it he began to kiss each finger in turn until he came to the pale circle on the third finger of her left hand .
8 He walked silently along the thickly carpeted floor until he came to the last cubicle .
9 But he came to the front bench late , as Secretary of State for Employment from 1974 to 1976 , and leader of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1979 .
10 ‘ You draw good pictures , ’ said the boy , turning over the pages of the note-book till he came to the whole page drawing of a pheasant , the cock pheasant that Philip had coloured in at home .
11 As he gave out his text , his voice rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes , ’ and when he came to the two last words , which he pronounced loud , deep , and distinct , it seemed to me , who was then young , as if the sounds had echoed from the bottom of the human heart , and as if that prayer might have floated in solemn silence through the universe .
12 He sorted through Blanche 's things deliberately , one by one , and only stopped when he came to the building-society books she had purloined and Marek 's exercise book .
13 I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner .
14 He was going like a winner when he came to the third from home , fell and broke a leg .
15 He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope .
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