Example sentences of "i came [adv prt] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap .
2 ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said .
3 It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) .
4 It happened like this : last Saturday , after the farewell party at Nanking University , I came back to the hotel , and packed my things ready to leave for Shanghai , then about 10.30 I started to feel sick , and it got worse and worse and went on and on until I had to wake up Comrade Wu at about 3.30 and ask her to get a doctor .
5 When I came back to the world of RAM and ROM , my subconscious had apparently been connecting up some loose neurons , and everything fell into place .
6 It was not at all sweet for Alfred Noyes I learned when I came back to the boat , for he had a bucket of slops emptied on his head .
7 ‘ Well , I came back to the Club , did n't I ?
8 I came back to the flat with one of my regular clients who I had planned to meet .
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