Example sentences of "he come [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He came to dislike the repressive Calvinism of the Free Church . |
2 | This conception , however , dissolved in his mind as , towards the end of his life , he came to accept the prevalent belief in the everyday occurrence of miracles . |
3 | When he came to consider the classic requirements of necessity and proportionality , he had this to say , at para. 14 : |
4 | Mr Ensoll , district head postmaster for Darlington , recalled this week how he came to bypass an MI5-type job in favour of the Post Office . |
5 | Lean 's realist reputation was enlarged by his first Dickens adaptation , Great Expectations ( 1946 ) but , by the time he came to film the extraordinary expressionist opening to Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) , questions were being asked . |
6 | He came to know the changing seasons , morning and evening , different winds , waters and mists , shade and silence , and the voices of nature . |
7 | Only when the Gestapo arrive in search of Jean — real name , Kippelstein — does he come to realise the full implication of their ‘ difference ’ . |
8 | A child grows up in a community in which people moan and cry when they are in pain ( as he does himself ) ; in which they also use expressions like ‘ I 'm in pain' and ‘ I 've got toothache ’ ; in which others react sympathetically to their linguistic , as to their non-linguistic , expressions of pain ; and so he comes to use the linguistic expression himself in the place of the natural expression . |