Example sentences of "come [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were on the film set few of the moments I had come to dread during the run of the stage show — when he 'd slap me down , or even when he would encourage me , egg me on . ’ |
| 2 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
| 3 | This is where family work could be useful helping the whole family to understand the part alcohol has come to play in the life of the vulnerable elderly person , the pattern of abuse , the defensiveness about it , and the likely outcome . |
| 4 | The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail . |
| 5 | to come to walk in the light of Salvation . |
| 6 | The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends . |
| 7 | A Mrs Dorothy Shepherd described a middle-aged man in a blue suit who had come running from the direction of Alfred Oliver 's shop . |
| 8 | If they have come to rest through the act of sale to a stranger then , what was their price ? , and , in what currency were they purchased ? |
| 9 | In fact , she was on the point of reining in when she saw that Beador had come to rest on the top of the trunk ; he stood there , poised like a trick rider in a circus . |
| 10 | He had come to lean against the foot of the banisters , looking up at her with a spark of challenge in his eyes . |
| 11 | But the Secretary had come to stay as the hub of the administrative process . |
| 12 | And Melvyn , who had come to complain about the state of arts funding under the Conservatives , joined Alan in an impromptu duet . |
| 13 | In the Western world , two approaches have come to dominate in the course of the past 50 years : a medical approach and an educational approach . |
| 14 | That was true in 1987 , but not so true by the early 1990s ; by then governments had come to frown upon the idea of occasional realignments . |
| 15 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 16 | A second later she knew what the sound was , for having heard her too , the most beautiful Dobermann suddenly came tearing round the side of the house and charged full pelt at her . |
| 17 | Grandfather James Hauxwell met Grandmother Elizabeth , who was a Bayles , when he came to work on the building of the reservoir , just below Low Birk Hatt . |
| 18 | Slowly they came to conform to the Catholicism of their Italian subjects . |
| 19 | Stephen had gone out first , scrambling up the shaft , putting all his weight this time on the rope and wondering what would happen , whether they would ever be found alive , if the rope came unfastened from the spur of rock to which they had tied it . |
| 20 | It was through this work that I came to hear of the case of Dr Ron Carrington , a 35-year-old psychiatrist . |
| 21 | In England the king claimed that all his subjects owed fealty to him in some degree , and in due course this came to conflict with the possibility of any of his vassals owing liege homage to any but the king . |
| 22 | As Guy sat contemplating this conclusion , a fair-haired child came racing around the corner of the north tower . |
| 23 | She came to rest beside the statue of Father Matthew , the Apostle of Temperance , and as Jacob drew up to her he joked : ‘ You would n't want to get too close to him . |
| 24 | Fran closed her eyes , willing the frantic pounding of her pulse to slow , but when his fingers completed their slow journey and came to rest at the base of her neck she knew that he could feel every frantic beat . |
| 25 | The bag came to rest at the small of her back . |
| 26 | All three landing gear legs were torn off shortly after ground impact and the aircraft finally came to rest on the belly of the fuselage . |
| 27 | These separated and came to rest on the head of each of them . |
| 28 | Paige sat down and opened the atlas , flicking over the pages until finally her finger came to rest on the country of Costa Rica . |
| 29 | Then an arm lifted , as though of its own accord , and came to rest on the crown of his head . |
| 30 | A boy sitting on a wall fell off backwards and came running round the end of the wall a moment later saying , ‘ What have I missed ? |