Example sentences of "come to [art] [noun pl] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner .
2 In 1933 it first appeared in its present format , accompanied by the slim one-volume Supplement which added quotations , words , and meanings that had come to the editors ' attention after the publication of the relevant part of the Dictionary .
3 He had come to the comrades ' attention when he wrote an article in the journal of the Right-On wing of the Communist Party , Marxism Today , shortly before the £750 GLC pre-feasibility study was completed in November 1984 .
4 Aunt Margaret came to the girls ' bedroom and unhandily undressed Victoria , although she could perfectly well undress herself .
5 Six minutes from the end Murdoch again came to the visitors ' rescue when he dived to block a shot from Hateley .
6 Many came to the women 's movement from backgrounds where the state was viewed as an instrument for enacting their own class specific demands .
7 The Fijian captain , Waisale Serevi — whose side defeated the district of Suva 26-0 in the final — came to the Scots ' hotel to say ‘ thank-you , good-bye and good-luck , ’ to the teams who had ventured to Fiji 's first such tournament .
8 I think but continuing down the corridor erm which was all the Education Department , you came to the typists ' room right at the bottom of the corridor on the left
9 He imagined a policeman with nothing more to go on than a tiny , once brightly embroidered , label , a square inch of bloodstained , earth-stained , half-rotted cloth , hawking it round boutiques in Kilburn and West Hendon , narrowing the field , finally coming to an importers ' warehouse
10 The once-in-a-while reward is often used to deal with disobedience about coming to the parents ' bed in the middle of the night .
11 When the signal for launching crusade finally did come to the Fists ' astropaths , Battle Brothers would depart in warpships from the jutting sword-deck — to return , perhaps years later in realspace time , as heroes … and some as cripples needing reconstruction by the experts in the Apothacarion … and others as honoured corpses , or perhaps only in the form of retrieved progenoid glands from which new Marines would be kindled .
12 Ironically , the quest for profits may ultimately come to the dolphins ' rescue .
13 All right , they say , a wife is a wife after all , but when it comes to a parents ' decision
14 Satisfied , she retraces her steps until she comes to a Ladies ' cloakroom .
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