Example sentences of "[pers pn] come to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also good for them to come to a new school and know at least one face there . |
| 2 | The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF . |
| 3 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 4 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 5 | Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies . |
| 6 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 7 | At nine o'clock , after twelve miles , I came to a slippery escarpment , a cascade of sand tumbling five hundred feet to a plain which , in spite of a slight haze , I could see stretching some sixty miles south and west . |
| 8 | Separate from my parents in another country , I came to a new knowledge of me as a self apart . |
| 9 | Five hours later , after I had passed beneath a crudely-lettered blue notice board that welcomed travellers to the unpeopled jungle vastness of Darién , I came to a wooden sign that said simply ‘ Sante Fé ’ . |
| 10 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 11 | A quiver of anguish passed along my spine as I came to the last dish . |
| 12 | I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham . |
| 13 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 14 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
| 15 | I came to the rapid conclusion that anyone tackling it must be either incredibly brave , extremely stupid — or both ! |
| 16 | Then I came to the fourth floor landing and Toby 's door opened and there he was . |
| 17 | I came to the braided reaches of the river where it swung out over the sands , and adjusted my steps so that I cleared all the channels easily and cleanly , a leap at a time . |
| 18 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |
| 19 | I walk through the remnants of ancientness until , close to the cliffs , I come to a brown headstone : shoulder high , two feet wide . |
| 20 | ‘ Have I come to the right place ? ’ |
| 21 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 22 | just tw okay now , just keep , stand here and tell me when I come to the good bit . |
| 23 | Now I come to the main task of all . ’ |
| 24 | I come to the two-metre-high brick wall which surrounds the estate and feel my way along it , stumbling over piles of earth and building debris until I get to the corner . |
| 25 | Erm have I come to the wrong place then ? |
| 26 | ‘ You want gracious elegance , you came to the right place . ’ |
| 27 | There was a wee window you could look into before you came to the back door and she was always sitting reading the paper . |
| 28 | In Newcastle she came to a self-service cafeteria and , with a cup of tea in her hand , went to an empty table . |
| 29 | Suddenly recalling some of her brother 's youthful enthusiasms , she came to a lame halt . |
| 30 | She came to a skidding stop in front of Guido and Ronni , her lovely bright-eyed face breaking into a huge smile . |