Example sentences of "come [adv] to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite experiences which have come close to destroying their lives , the three managed to appear remarkably cheerful as they faced the cameras in Moya 's elegant house . |
| 2 | She had met no one she had even come close to loving . |
| 3 | And today on a satellite link from Everest he admitted his solo climb without Oxygen had come close to costing him his life . |
| 4 | He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority . |
| 5 | The memory was made more bitter still by the fact that she had come close to believing it . |
| 6 | In a way , she had come close to hating Nona at times , although she was not going to admit it . |
| 7 | Barry Riley of the Financial Times writes that ‘ in the process of achieving great commercial success , accountants have come close to deprofessionalising themselves ’ . |
| 8 | But Ferreira , who had not come close to breaking the sixth seed , suddenly discovered his best form , hitting three glorious forehands , including one to save match point , and capturing the game when Stich hit a backhand volley out . |
| 9 | I have given that estimate before , and the hon. Member for Blackburn is reported to have said on the strength of a newspaper article that we both read : ’ the Secretary of State has come close to misleading the House of Commons over the numbers required . ’ |
| 10 | For a moment Agnes thought he must have pulled a muscle , then giggled as she , and she alone , realised he had come close to spilling his holstered pistol . |
| 11 | The truth was that for four years Fittipaldi had come close to dominating motor racing in the way Jackie had before him : after two indifferent early years learning his trade , he had been champion twice ( in 1972 and 1974 ) and come second in 1973 and 1975 . |
| 12 | Equally predictably , given the third party payment problem , the cost of those publicly funded has come close to running out of control . |
| 13 | The Kenyan-born allrounder had once come close to playing for England . |
| 14 | Maxim touched the outside of his right thigh ; through the thin cotton trousers he could trace the hard-edged crater that had come close to killing him , out in the desert hours from real medical aid . |
| 15 | The council 's own cleaning workers won the schools ' cleaning contracts for Hartlepool , Stockton and Langbaurgh and have not come close to having their future considered . |
| 16 | ‘ They have come close to finding them , then ? ’ |
| 17 | I found the problems in Bolo 's Adventures part 2 just as hard if not harder , although I ca n't really tell because I have n't even come close to finishing part 1 . |
| 18 | Jack Delano believes that enriching the human spirit in some measure is the purpose of all art , and if any of his work has come close to doing that for anyone , then he and his wife , who sadly died in 1982 , would be more than satisfied . |
| 19 | The South Carolina election also saw the entry of former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke who had come close to winning the governorship of Louisiana in 1991 . |
| 20 | The 36-year old current British Open champion hungers after the US Open title , which he has come close to winning on a handful of occasions in the last five years . |
| 21 | But Jade Pike has come close to dying many times in the past year . |
| 22 | After several years of thinking of sexism and heterosexism as different forms of oppression , we 've come back to seeing them as inextricably linked . |
| 23 | They have come around to accepting them , but on the dubious grounds that the palaeontological evidence now proves that the earliest hominids arose in Africa about 5–6 million years ago and that Ramapithecus was not a hominid . |
| 24 | The winners will be the businesses the judges feel have come closest to achieving these criteria . |
| 25 | Astrologers have probably come closest to understanding these principles in their use of planetary aspects and in the theory and techniques of harmonic astrology , pioneered by John Addey . |
| 26 | Since Friday she had met many people who had every reason to be relieved , but Ayling had come closest to saying he was glad . |
| 27 | However , as the conclusions are based on the minutiae of craftsmanship it seems likely that Leigh has come closest to identifying the work of individuals . |
| 28 | But teachers faced with increasing behavioural problems have come round to seeing that values in education could work to their advantage . |
| 29 | We know now that the world was not designed for us , but we have n't come round to acting on this knowledge . |
| 30 | The Plowden Report recommended that ‘ Schools with an age range of 5–11 should usually have at least three classes , each covering two age ranges ’ , but by 1976 Lady Plowden , the chairman of the Committee producing the report , appeared to have altered her views , stating in a Border Television broadcast : ‘ Since the report I have come round to thinking that small country schools should be kept open because of the social value and because of the continuity of community involvement they provide . ’ ) |