Example sentences of "come to the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've come to the best club in the country and won . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've come to the best club in the country and won . |
| 3 | It was the closest we had come to the outside world in nearly four months yet they were responsible for the oil which glossed the harbour and had killed the coral . |
| 4 | Wdowczyk , after only four competitive matches , looks one of the best players to have come to the Premier Division in years . |
| 5 | He had come to the banqueting hall in order to have a look at the river from the roof ; the river had risen and widened so much that the entire countryside seemed to be sliding past and one felt as if one were standing on the deck of a ship . |
| 6 | Oh So Risky , who ran away with the Triumph Hurdle — the crown for four-year-olds — at the 1991 Festival , came to the final flight in last year 's Champion Hurdle with the race apparently won , and Sheikh Mohammed 's Royal Gait had to bash two others aside to finally get to David Elsworth 's five-year-old in a photo finish . |
| 7 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 8 | When it came to the major events in the life of that other world outside Baldersdale , such as Christmas , the celebrations were muted , to say the least . |
| 9 | At Doncaster Mr Frisk , who came to the last fence in front in the Hennessy Gold Cup , should gain compensation in the Constant Security Handicap Chase , and Red Ruddel can gain his fourth consecutive victory of the season . |
| 10 | We may contrast with this the phrase semantic components , where the two interpretations are virtually indistinguishable ; it will be seen that this phrase will always come to the same thing in practical terms , whether we regard the components as being semantic , with ascriptive use of the adjective , or as components connected with semantics , taking the associative interpretation . |
| 11 | ‘ I expect it 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ Zen told him as they shook hands . |
| 12 | ‘ It 'll come to the same thing in the end , ’ he 'd told Luciano Bartocci . |
| 13 | We now come to the final stage in the Johnston and McClelland model — abstract word detection . |
| 14 | I now come to the two issues in the case . |
| 15 | Its appearance in Anselm 's later letters will require further discussion when we come to the next phase in Anselm 's life . |
| 16 | It comes to the Civic Theatre in Darlington on March 31 . |