Example sentences of "[noun prp] come to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 2 | Leonora Buckmaster came to the front doorway as the Daimler pulled up . |
| 3 | Jane Melvin came to the New Inn at Pembridge in Herefordshire in 1984 , and turned it into one of the most popular country pubs in the county . |
| 4 | Willis came to the front door dressed only in a pair of trousers . |
| 5 | In my judgment , both Potts J. and Phillips J. came to the right conclusions for the right reasons . |
| 6 | At that precise moment , Delaney came to the same conclusion as Nell . |
| 7 | ‘ If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it , then the company which is left will escape . ’ |
| 8 | It was in 1929 , aged about 30 , that Winterbotham came to the momentous realisation , worthy of Bertie Wooster , that ‘ I should have to get a job ’ . |
| 9 | One actress Lizzie Bancroft came to the final rehearsal with a two week old baby . |
| 10 | Darwin and Wallace came to the same conclusion about archipelago birds . |
| 11 | Linda Townley , formerly Linda Joyce a lady 's maid to Princess Anne came to the Labour party conference in Blackpool to make a desperate plea on behalf of those unfairly attacked in the press , |
| 12 | Beales had not taken any notice of other customers until a man he recognized as MacQuillan came to the next table . |
| 13 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 14 | personal contacts have also improved : one Soviet commentator reports that ‘ In the past , visits of Soviet and Latin American businessmen to each other for commercial talks or for an appraisal of export and import requirements were incidental ; nowadays hundreds of businessmen and experts from Latin America come to the Soviet Union each year and as many Soviet specialists visit the Latin American countries ’ ( Gladkov : 1975 , pp. 11–12 ) . |
| 15 | Thus provisioned , he invited Louise to come to the banqueting hall to celebrate her birthday , though in a very quiet way , he assured her ; he had not forgotten that she must still be suffering on account of her father , who had only recently taken his last dive down the well in the Residency yard in the wake of so many of his former patients . |
| 16 | Lina Freitas came to the medical centre next morning . |