Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] come to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty five Stoddards employees took part in the company 's annual bowling contest which came to a close at the Elderslie Wallace Bowling Club on September 9th . |
| 2 | I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly . |
| 3 | It was a struggle which came to a head in the reign of Edward the Confessor , which began in 1042 . |
| 4 | Although in some dioceses individual families came close to obtaining a monopoly over the episcopate , in others there was considerable rivalry which came to a head at the time of episcopal elections . |
| 5 | Starting from the clubhouse on the first day and walking along the edge of the wood we came to a piece of natural grassland studded with patches of purpose tufted vetch and orchids growing among the unmown grass . |
| 6 | Allen asked , and as though to point his question they came to a place where another track came in from the right . |
| 7 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |
| 8 | They were at the top of the hill now , and by common consent they came to a standstill . |
| 9 | Juanita Garcias , who was twenty five and from France , was a passenger in the lorry which came to a stop hanging over the edge of the bridge on the M-forty near Aynho . |
| 10 | On journeys , he would study both the red and the green Michelin guides , in search of gastronomy and culture , and sit in the back seat issuing careful instructions to the driver that ‘ in about a quarter of a mile you come to a place to turn right ’ . |
| 11 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 12 | And last night it came to a head with Mr MacSharry privately blaming his interfering boss for his decision to stand down , and Commission sources confirming that he felt badly let down by M Delors . |
| 13 | PS We later hear how my daughter , bridge hopping bare-footed , gets on a Tube train which comes to a halt over the river just as we paddle beneath . |
| 14 | Heavenly Father , thank you that as I come to you with my concerns about the conflicts in my life I come to a God who understands my humanity completely because you shared this experience fully in the life of your Son . |
| 15 | With so many unanswered questions , it is an unwise man who comes to a conclusion . |
| 16 | In the end you came to a door that said ( and this was equally inexplicable ) 3D . |
| 17 | Then in the end we came to a river so wide I could n't see the other bank ; I felt frightened and thought this must be the end of the race , and I wanted to stop , but Father plunged straight in without looking at me so I had to plunge in too . |
| 18 | At length it came to a place of poverty , |
| 19 | Around the next corner he came to a hairpin bend where the road turned abruptly inland and up hill to Albert Terrace . |
| 20 | One headmistress who came to a workshop put this exercise to good use . |
| 21 | On the way he came to a ladder . |
| 22 | She had n't realised how much it angered her until she had begun , and by the time she came to a halt , her voice had acquired all the sting of a whiplash . |
| 23 | With a tiny exclamation of annoyance she came to a halt , easing the cuff of her jacket . |