Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 2 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 3 | Owen never repeated this claim in the pre-Darwinian era , but liberal theologians such as the Oxford mathematician and philosopher Baden Powell began to come around to the idea of ‘ designed evolution ’ during the 1850s . |
| 4 | At the congress Carlsson declared that the emergence of a new security system in Europe based on the 1975 Helsinki accords meant that Sweden 's neutrality no longer " bore the same heavy burden " , and the party began to come round to the view of both industry and the two major opposition parties ( M and Fp ) that Sweden should apply for membership of the European Communities ( EC , which it did in July 1991 — see p. 38353 ) . |
| 5 | To her surprise he offered to come over to the office . |
| 6 | Like rejected lovers returning to a trysting place , they kept coming back to the areas surrounding the station . |
| 7 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 8 | In common with some other contributors to Essays in Criticism he had come around to the view that the object of English should be to develop in students a " trained mind " rather than to produce " literary critics " or even " good readers " . |
| 9 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 10 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 11 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 12 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 13 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 14 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |
| 15 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 16 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 17 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
| 18 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 19 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |
| 20 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 21 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 22 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 23 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 24 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
| 25 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 26 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 27 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
| 28 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
| 29 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
| 30 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |