Example sentences of "they come to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came to the following conclusions : |
| 2 | When they came to the two roads , they stopped . |
| 3 | Fellow aviculturalists ‘ do n't call them twitchers , it 's the ultimate insult , ’ said Yvonne , Harry 's daughter Robin Pickering and Peter Banks from Stanhope were called in , and after much research and consultation they came to the extraordinary conclusion that this was a Glaucous Macaw . |
| 4 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 5 | Jim Lenehan , assistant manager at the Sheikh 's Kildangan Stud , confirmed that Royal Gait suffered a massive heart attack , and added : ‘ The sad part is that Graham said he had felt as good as ever as they came to the final flight . ’ |
| 6 | And as they came to the final furlongs it was Roc de Prince , Laura 's Beau , Sure Metal going for the line and then on the outside , up came New Mill House . |
| 7 | When at last they came to the lower end of Spring Street , Agnes stopped and , looking from one to the other , she said , ‘ This is where I live ; I 'll be all right now . |
| 8 | They came to the second door . |
| 9 | They set to work cutting down trees and brushwood , far and near , to drag up to the terrace , to fill in the ditches — or at least , the two outer ones , for when they came to the inner ones it was promptly demonstrated that they were within range of the defending cannon . |
| 10 | Lead on said her father , and he lead the way till they came to the flowing river . |
| 11 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |
| 12 | By the time they came to the 16th Chris was flagging , after pulling the heavy trolley for fifteen holes through the wind and rain . |
| 13 | Beyond the long line of windows , past the Conservatory and the Laburnum Walk , they came to the winter-bound Pleasure Garden where yellow jasmine crawled over a tree stump , hamamelis , the wych-hazel shrub , thrust out golden hedgehog flowers along its leafless branches , and the stream coming from the kitchen garden — a winter river now — hurried into the culvert that carried it on into the baby lake in the field outside the Pleasure Garden . |
| 14 | Jitka turned and put her fingers to her lips as they came to the main bedroom and they tiptoed passed . |
| 15 | The expedition then sailed out into the Pacific until , 600 miles from the mainland , they came to the lonely archipelago of the Galapagos . |
| 16 | He 'd thought he 'd die himself , he said when they came to the white iron gate , he 'd thought he 'd die when he 'd heard the woman 's scream , sharp as a blade above the whine of the wind and the rain . |
| 17 | There was a catch in her voice and he took her arm as they came to the magnificent front of the cathedral . |
| 18 | At last they came to the topmost ridge of the mountain , and there lay a great field of cloud ahead of them . |
| 19 | As they come to the final fence Second Schedule being pressed by Ebony Jane and Bishops Hall on the nearside and over the last Second Schedule and Bishops Hall on the nearside , Ebony Jane in third , in fourth place is Joe White and racing into the closing stages it 's Second Schedule with Bishops Hall on the nearside Graham Bradley again as they go to the line , Bishops Hall wins it for Harry , Second Schedule is second , Joe White is third , Ebony Jane four . |
| 20 | Apart from errors and omissions these are defined in the National Accounts in such a way that they come to the same value . |