Example sentences of "[noun prp] come [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleanor came wearing a red suit , and he felt so turned on that he forgot to put the water in the teapot . |
| 2 | As a result , Constantine 's victory over Maxentius came to represent a miraculous triumph of Christianity over paganism . |
| 3 | Yet of all the leaders of European Social Democracy , Lenin came to show the greatest sensitivity to the issues associated with the oppression of national minorities , and to the need for dominant nationalities to demonstrate their rejection of this oppression . |
| 4 | At the end of the meal , Dominic came to have a few words with me . |
| 5 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 6 | Thus Bloomsbury came to criticize the dominant order over a wide range : for its militarism ; for its repressive colonialism ; for its unmanaged capitalism ; for its sexual inequalities ; for its rigidities of manners ; for its hypocrisies ; for its indifference to the arts . |
| 7 | Between Salisbury 's retirement in 1902 and the outbreak of the Great War the individualist associations , their spokesmen , and their ideas were relegated even further to the margins of Conservative politics : only two Conservatives of note allied themselves with the individualist groups , while Dicey came to regard the Conservative party as collectivist Quislings . |
| 8 | That was how the Gens Redburna came to dominate the imperial economy . |
| 9 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 10 | It is debatable indeed whether or not Jesus came to found a new religion . |
| 11 | Christ came to establish a new society on earth . |
| 12 | He chose to ignore the ultimate horror of the looted tomb and inscribed his lines as if all was well : " Aa-Kheper-Re-senb came to see the beautiful temple of King Seneferu . |
| 13 | What happened before MacQuillan came had a considerable effect on what he did later . |
| 14 | ii.3.36 ) relates how shortly before Lykophron came to power the Athenian Kritias tried to establish democracy and arm the penestai . |
| 15 | But when he and Slater came to devise the dramatic structure of the libretto , something different resulted . |
| 16 | The likeliest explanation is that Greek settlers moving in from the south gradually came to dominate the many hill tribes of the region — much as , a little later , Chinese moving into what is now Vietnam came to dominate the local tribes there . |
| 17 | With its rituals , its entertainments , its clashes and its uplift , its patronage and its exposure of the eminent to provincial crowds , the BAAS came to occupy an important place in the intellectual calendar of Victorian Britain . |
| 18 | Then we went upstairs to the make-up room and Mr Wogan came to say a quick hello , which is his custom , I believe . |
| 19 | Baxter and Puskas renewed their friendship a few years later in Glasgow when Real Madrid came to play a European Cup against Rangers . |