Example sentences of "then came to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then came to Britain , where he worked on a farm and in a Blackburn cotton mill . |
| 2 | I drove away slowly and then came to the corner of Union and Gloucester . |
| 3 | They brushed themselves down and advanced towards the bridge then came to a sudden stop . |
| 4 | I sauntered along attractively named Wine Street , then came to a bridge over the rushing River Garavogue . |
| 5 | Goleniewski then came to London and was carefully interviewed by MI6 about his evidence . |
| 6 | The church then came to the Order of the Shod Carmelites who built a monastery and rebuilt the church from 1723–38 . |
| 7 | He found an opportunity to work in the biochemistry laboratory at Cambridge , and then came to Florey . |
| 8 | Arnold then came to me and said , ‘ You 've seen me play , Tip . |
| 9 | With this rubbish tip of information she then came to me to ask how she could write it up into a dissertation . |
| 10 | I turned into Hospital Street , past Plotnikoff 's large saw mills , then came to Callender 's bakery . |
| 11 | They knocked out the next emplacement , but then came to one of those house-like ack-ack towers . |
| 12 | The elevator rose smoothly , then came to a stop . |
| 13 | She sat quietly , however , until the music found its way into calmer waters and then came to an end . |
| 14 | The 6 A.M. Glasgow to Garvie train approached platform 8 gently , apologetically almost , then came to a stop with a squealing of brakes and a hiss of escaping steam , and they looked at it with wide-eyed wonder . |
| 15 | He received but scant attention outside his native land for half a century after his death , but then came to be a major force who made a profound impression on both theology and philosophy . |
| 16 | But after the formation of the first Labour government in 1924 matters potentially became much more serious , since socialists then came to be vested with the power of legislation . |
| 17 | The path widened , then came to an end in a wide , flat pond . |
| 18 | Over the centuries , it then came to be regarded as established fact . |
| 19 | At the southern end of the valley where the sky was brighter , a horseman now appeared , his dark mount reined in , its head pulling to one side as it slowed then came to a halt . |
| 20 | The community health services then came to be financed wholly by central government . |
| 21 | They ignored a Druid 's temple — Johnson said , ‘ one is quite enough ’ — and then came to ‘ a little hut , with an old looking woman at the door of it . |
| 22 | We then came to a stream and followed this to the little village of Le Buet , returning to Chamonix by train . |
| 23 | Under cover of the rugby-players , who surrounded them so that they were invisible to the sentries , two officers managed to bury themselves underground , where they remained until darkness : they then came to the surface and made their escape . |
| 24 | He then came to the Ottoman domains , an event which Asikpasazade and Nesri assign to the reign of Mehmed I ( 816–24/1413–21 ) . |
| 25 | The Swifts then came to life with Beattie 's 25-yard free kick just over and Robinson 's forward burst barely cut out on time . |
| 26 | Fran turned off the shower and wrapped a huge fluffy towel around her to walk back into the bedroom — then came to an abrupt halt when she found Luke standing by the door . |
| 27 | She mentioned some other patients , then came to Hayley Burton . |
| 28 | Leith could imagine that would be the case , and , even though she knew the answer to a question that just then came to her , for clarification 's sake , she asked it just the same . |
| 29 | He led her down a row , then came to a halt . |
| 30 | Her housemates then came to her aid . |