Example sentences of "[noun sg] came [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Valencia trainer came on to the pitch and was ushered back towards the tunnel by Fernando Giner , a home defender . |
| 2 | ’ The car came up to the standard required . |
| 3 | As each slightly shamefaced figure came up to the table , she peered intently at the face , muttered ‘ Sweet or dry ? ’ and then poured from one of her bottles as if administering Syrup of Figs or Cod Liver Oil to the infant sick . |
| 4 | A clerk came up to the counter . |
| 5 | While he was getting the drinks , Alex Household came in to the pub , looking harassed . |
| 6 | He recalls that the Chancellor came in to the store at around 5pm , and stands by this approximate time even though he is well aware that Mr Lamont was then in a Treasury Select Committee at the House of Commons . |
| 7 | At Gebe/ Serag the cultivation on the east bank disappeared altogether and the desert came down to the river , leaving only the railway line and a few scrubby bushes clinging to the water 's edge . |
| 8 | Daisy hung about until Drew and the team came back to the Land-Rover . |
| 9 | A BP survey , for example , revealed that barely 30 per cent of internal reports in that organisation came up to the mark . |
| 10 | The woman came over to the fence and put her hand out to me . |
| 11 | Er , just this this woman came round to the door last night and said well er , you know the in bi English Dictionary ? |
| 12 | Lizzie was waiting for him one morning when the waitress came over to the table . |
| 13 | ‘ Dr Grant was making a round when your call came through to the hospital , and as I happened to be on duty … ’ |
| 14 | Just hours before the train was scheduled to depart a call came through to the Youth Allyah office in London , warning that the transport was about to be cancelled . |
| 15 | We were feeling rather disgruntled at how many good films we 'd obviously missed when a man came on to the stage to read the nominations for one of the categories . |
| 16 | The man came back to the telephone and said that if I was Linford Christie I was to go in and see them . |
| 17 | The gendarme came over to the table and began a long address to Lambert , who listened politely , commenting ‘ Peut-être ’ , from time to time . |
| 18 | The dust wagon came up to the warehouse today , the usual they 'd got halfway to emptying the first dustbin in the back |
| 19 | A coal-black manservant came out to the carriage and showed them into the house . |
| 20 | One day a German officer came in to the camp to supervise work that was being done on some primitive drains by Polish forced labour . |
| 21 | The young widow came back to the ballroom to make one last request . |
| 22 | The keeper called , ‘ Sue , Sue — come here , ’ and a young leopard came up to the bars and rubbed herself against them while he stroked her back . |
| 23 | ‘ Chap came round to the Palladium one night , said we could be in it if we liked , only there was no money , just publicity . |
| 24 | Suddenly the taverner came back to the table . |
| 25 | When Granby House came on to the market early in 1983 , it looked more promising . |
| 26 | It transformed the way that the English dealt with the world outside Europe ; even though Charles 's son came back to the throne as Charles II in 1660 , the Republic changed the direction of English imperial policy and set a pattern followed at least until the death in 1714 of the last direct descendant of Charles I to sit on the throne . |
| 27 | In the first week of good weather , over half the acting members of the Miracle Pageant came back to the plague village , just to see how their old friend Lucier was faring . |