Example sentences of "[vb past] come [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When she stopped coming to feed the sick cow , he had to find a reason for visiting her .
2 Poppa , if … if he did come to feel the same way about me , would you mind ?
3 ‘ Oh , Father told me you 'd opened the new girls ’ school , so I simply had to come to meet the new schoolteacher .
4 The code of military behaviour had come to permeate the whole world of knightly behaviour , not just the field of battle .
5 The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail .
6 The sentence comes from an essay called Eztetyke du Rêve , an eccentric spelling of Esthétique du Rêve ( ‘ Aesthetic of the Dream' ) in which , building on the idea that ‘ the dream is the only right which can not be forbidden ’ , Glauber Rocha described how he had come to realise the revolutionary importance of the mystical in Latin American popular culture .
7 Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " .
8 The disagreement about where they were to live had come to seem the only obstacle .
9 They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's .
10 It is hardly surprising given the enhanced status , power and influence which the nineteenth century had brought , that Nonconformists had come to identify the Christian religion with the values and secular goals of their times , the most important of which was an acceptance of the inevitability of progress through change .
11 She had touched on the deadness in himself and this spasm of melancholy had come to torment the impacted sin of a lifetime .
12 By the 1920s , the zaibatsu had come to dominate the newer manufacturing sectors like steel , machinery or shipbuilding but they also dominated the financial sector , owning two-thirds of banking and insurance institutions .
13 No longer could she take any pleasure in the act ; almost she had come to hate the interminable travail .
14 Murti Lāl and Māilo , Sigarup 's cousin and uncle who were joining their flocks with Kalchu 's for the journey , had come to check the final preparations .
15 The smell of antiseptic , and the helpless waiting , brought back powerful memories of the visitors ' room two years ago , where the doctor had come to break the mind-numbing news that during a routine operation to remove her appendix her mother had died of heart failure .
16 But it shocked the Left which had come to regard the Soviet Union as the only genuine opponent of Fascism .
17 The challenge with which we were faced on the day of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion was that we knew that a very full House , which had come to hear the prime minister 's Maastricht statement , would deplete rapidly after he was finished , as the business to follow — a debate on the Earth Summit — was not very controversial .
18 This last had the support of the man who had come to symbolise the Franco-American alliance , Marie Joseph de Motier , Marquis de Lafayette , who having gone to America to fight for the rebel colonists , in May 1779 returned to France a major-general in the US army .
19 For the past two years , Washington has been desperate to unseat a ruler who , across the world , had come to symbolise the crass stupidity and shortsightedness of American policy in Latin America .
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