Example sentences of "[adv] came [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
| 2 | In the same year he became the chairman of the radical Green Ribbon Club , but he briefly and secretly came over to the court interest . |
| 3 | McCallen meanwhile came back to the starting area but then failed to take part and was escorted back to his pit by his team manager Neill Tuxwsorth . |
| 4 | Entering the competition was entirely Barbara 's idea and when the phone call came through to say they 'd won , Betty was quite shocked to discover that she , too , was going to London to have a makeover — but she soon came round to the idea ! |
| 5 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 6 | His dilemma would have been similar , in some ways , to that which faced the coachman Jean Hornn when the latter finally came up to the town in the berline dormeuse and attempted to skirt it to avoid the encumbrances with which the road was choked ( see Part 1 ) . |
| 7 | Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle . |
| 8 | ‘ He said my husband always came on to the site wearing dark glasses , ’ Jean says . |
| 9 | John later came back to the box and searched around the land round the cabin to look for explanations but no solution presented itself and the mystery remains to this day and defies rational belief . |
| 10 | Later on that night Clare also came back to the house . |
| 11 | Water also came down to the mill from a cutting , possibly working a mill wheel . |
| 12 | They rented a flat on the top floor of Sylvia Court at English Bay , and often came along to the Hotel Vancouver for lunch . |
| 13 | Her body was lifted from the coffin and carried through the dusk across the open fields that then came up to the hospital , to Ferry Beach . |
| 14 | Put the boat into the boat-house and made the doors fast , then came up to the house . |
| 15 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 16 | ‘ I read Middle Eastern Languages , and spent a year in Turkey after Oxford , then came back to the Museum . |
| 17 | I had a few words with him , then came back to the shop . ’ |
| 18 | He rose from his chair , walked to the window , looked out , then came back to the table . |
| 19 | Her father never came up to the nursery floor . |
| 20 | ‘ But not for long and I never came over to the Yamacraw . |
| 21 | ‘ It looks as if she never came back to the phone . |
| 22 | Those who never came back to the Cotswold village can now at last be remembered . |