Example sentences of "[pers pn] came [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on these - " moderate " walks that I came to appreciate the astonishing versatility of' the Dales , how inhospitably barren they can look from the brow of one hill , then how welcomingly like the gentle South Downs from the next ; how one village , little more than a pub and a row of stone cottages , might be as gaunt and forbidding as some remote Highland hamlet , while another will be so prettified and roses-round-the-door picturesque that , but for the backcloth of soaring hills or looming crags , and the uncoursed rubble walls wending like strips of children 's Plasticine up to the horizon , it could be in Mummerset . |
| 2 | And that was how I came to join the Western Mail and stayed from 1958 to 61 , during which time the ownership changed from Kemsleys to Thomsons . |
| 3 | ‘ I came to hate the Tech-Green philosophy and did n't want to live out an expanded life up there somewhere , looking down on the unfortunates left on Earth . |
| 4 | When the children of Israel were camped in Moab near Jericho , many of them came to worship the local god , Bael-Poor , and there was some mixing with the Moabites . |
| 5 | But she says , ‘ You came to win the Open Championship , Arnold . |
| 6 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
| 7 | We came to recognize the furtive knocking of these late callers , and tried to alleviate their disappointment by inviting them in for tea and sympathy . |
| 8 | He was the son of Edward the Third , one of our more warlike kings , but he died the year before his father did , and that 's how we came to get the boy-king Richard the Second in thirteen seventy-seven . ’ |
| 9 | In the end it was overtaken by the advent of the ‘ New Draperies ’ , but the downward trend had set in well before the establishment of these in East Anglia ; indeed , in the event they came to replace the contracting broadcloth manufacture which , even as early as 1523 , had shown signs of instability : it was symptomatic of recession that no less than 35 per cent of Spring 's liquid assets had to be written off as irrecoverable , and the winding up of his affairs can not but have dealt its prosperity a mortal blow . |
| 10 | His way was blocked by the Ambassador and Culliman , talking politely about gardens as they came through' the french windows . |
| 11 | Slowly , however , the Romans had to learn to govern Celts , and this became an even more pressing responsibility when Spain was organized in two provinces in 197 B.C. For three centuries the Romans were steadily engaged — among their multifarious commitments — in annexing territories which were partially or totally Celtic until they came to control the greater part of the Celtic-speaking world . |
| 12 | He came to dislike the repressive Calvinism of the Free Church . |
| 13 | This conception , however , dissolved in his mind as , towards the end of his life , he came to accept the prevalent belief in the everyday occurrence of miracles . |
| 14 | When he came to consider the classic requirements of necessity and proportionality , he had this to say , at para. 14 : |
| 15 | Lean 's realist reputation was enlarged by his first Dickens adaptation , Great Expectations ( 1946 ) but , by the time he came to film the extraordinary expressionist opening to Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) , questions were being asked . |
| 16 | He came to know the changing seasons , morning and evening , different winds , waters and mists , shade and silence , and the voices of nature . |
| 17 | In time , this economic function may have grown strong enough to draw yet more people to it , so that it came to overshadow the original cause for the settlement 's foundation . |
| 18 | that it came to make the amazing sounds , okay , and then after that , er , this is another thing it leads to is there 's going to be a break down in your sound machine , okay , there 's gon na be a break down in your , in your entire robotic machine , movement in our machine , and that break down could be due to some of the workers going off and getting some of them erm you know , one , er part of the machine breaking down on the whole , sound changes , the movement changes and we 're going to watch how this robotic machine changes as it breaks down , it could be sound shut down it could be it could be anything you choose , but I want it anyway , leave it to you so all you do is choose a profession , think of something that is , comes to life to you , in movement and in sound , okay , so let's get into groups of , see how many they are , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , eighteen , nineteen , twenty , okay let's get into groups of four then , okay is that right , one , two , three , four , one , oh five , four , five , just get your group into a work in , I thank you if you do n't get |