Example sentences of "and came [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the first ‘ maid ’ they ever had was a girl of 16 called Mollie and she had been deserted by her husband and came to live in the house with three tots . |
| 2 | She turned slowly to look at him , as he deposited a bag of fragrant croissants and the Financial Times carelessly on the hall table and came to lean in the doorway of the guest room . |
| 3 | Riders broke away from the group and came to stand near the fence , waiting almost motionless in the still morning , while the horses shook their heads , grass foam dripping from bits , stamping impatiently . |
| 4 | Buddhists of the Northern school of China and Japan evolved their own theory of grace and came to believe in the Buddha as a Saviour , though in the earliest Scriptures he himself claimed to be nothing more than a teacher , a shower of the way . |
| 5 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 6 | Fran closed her eyes , willing the frantic pounding of her pulse to slow , but when his fingers completed their slow journey and came to rest at the base of her neck she knew that he could feel every frantic beat . |
| 7 | Then an arm lifted , as though of its own accord , and came to rest on the crown of his head . |
| 8 | These separated and came to rest on the head of each of them . |
| 9 | Balberith smashed through the rear doors of the catering truck , careened along the spotlessly clean linoleum floor and came to rest in the fruit and salad bar . |
| 10 | Laura 's stare left the corpse , travelled through several unfocused planes and came to rest upon the ceiling . |
| 11 | Under his feet a little floating clump of Um Suf , Mother of Wool , papyrus reed , torn loose from its moorings hundreds of miles to the south , nestled along the bank and came to rest against the shoal . |