Example sentences of "come to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the 8th , Baldwin saw the King 's Private Secretary , Lord Stamfordham , and told him that although he ‘ had come to no decision ’ , his inclination was ‘ not to meet Parliament but to resign ’ . |
| 2 | At any rate you seem to have come to no harm . ’ |
| 3 | He spoke softly in a voice very like the one Woil had used : ‘ Nice bird , pleasant bird , bird come to no harm , Man not hurt this buzzard , Man only want to stop him feeling afraid , Man only want to put him back where he is safe ; nice food waiting . ’ |
| 4 | To summarize , for a well flagged group of patients , with small solitary non-invasive transition cell carcinomas at d at diagnosis , and negative three month cystoscopy , we found eighty percent of our patients would certainly have come to no harm at all if their second cystoscopy had been one year from diagnosis . |
| 5 | She had come to no harm , but that was beside the point . |
| 6 | I 'm sure she 'll have come to no harm . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ At least tell me that you have come to no harm in your adventuring , ’ he said , and , wonderfully , his voice was pleading . |
| 8 | I 'm glad you 've come to no harm , spending the night in the street . ’ |
| 9 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 10 | Even before the slide forward has come to a stop , pull your rear guard hand back slightly in order to augment the snap punch . |
| 11 | ‘ You can open your eyes now , ’ the Bookman told him when they had come to a stop . |
| 12 | Looking up at the sky , at the myriad pinpricks of light , it seemed to him that he could feel the turning earth beneath his feet and that time had mysteriously come to a stop , fusing into one moment the past , the present and the future ; the ruined abbey , the obstinately enduring artefacts of the last war , the crumbling cliff defences , the windmill and the power station . |
| 13 | The BMW had come to a stop and the boy was climbing out , his Molotov cocktail now lit and ready . |
| 14 | Even Sir John Stokes , the bristle-brushed old gent for whom ‘ the twentieth century has been a mistake ’ , sat in the Commons representing the Birmingham dormitories of Halesowen and Stourbridge , where the closest most of his supporters had come to a foxhunt was a roadside cocktail lounge called the Whip and Saddle . |
| 15 | He has also advertised a collection of Odes ; and for his Vanity and Faculty of Lying , they are come to a Jayl , or Bedlam , and that without any help … . ’ |
| 16 | In particular , it appears there was a specific leader at Colossae who had come to a position of authority . |
| 17 | The year began with cold clammy fogs , and although some industry had come to a standstill because of workers called to the colours , and factories bombed by the enemy , we still did not have the Clean Air Act , and there was still quite a lot of smoke from domestic fires , and from the slack coal burnt by factories making munitions . |
| 18 | Time has come to a standstill . |
| 19 | My dreams of training an owl had come to a standstill with Barny , and then another standstill when I could n't find a bird to buy . |
| 20 | We might bc excused for considering that as far as the 18th century was concerned , mining in the Coniston Fells had come to a standstill , and indeed it might have , but negotiations were still being carried out . |
| 21 | Normally there was a background hum of noise , but now it was as though the entire city had come to a standstill , halted and muffled beneath a thick , enveloping blanket of fog . |
| 22 | Mr Mawlawi added : ‘ The relief effort has come to a standstill . |
| 23 | In the moments immediately following the arm injury to Craig Chalmers in Saturday 's international match at Twickenham ( see picture below ) , Dewi Morris summoned assistance from the touchline even before play had come to a standstill , while another England player also paid more attention to Chalmers than to the ball . |
| 24 | The carriage had come to a standstill |
| 25 | The principal catalyst behind this act was the fact that in September the wavering Châtelherault had come to a decision as a result of Cecil 's help in arranging the escape of his son Arran from France , and finally agreed to join the Lords of the Congregation , thus ending the uneasy situation in which the Hamiltons had dithered between two opposing forces . |
| 26 | One person had evidently come to a decision . |
| 27 | Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision . |
| 28 | But today she had come to a decision , she would tell Craig Grenfell to leave her house , his presence was beginning to disturb her , disrupt her life . |
| 29 | It had come from the London Group of members , but the Operations Department have not yet come to a decision on this . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've come to a decision , ’ he said . |