Example sentences of "come [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations :
2 At any rate , Barth himself was to come to make exactly the opposite criticism of the book , which he later used to call ‘ my well-known false start ’ .
3 And there was perhaps not so much to laugh at in that ; for by North 's trial , two and a half years after the breaking of the scandal , the overwhelming majority of Americans had come to feel much the same way .
4 Neil Pascoe says he 's always wanted to cycle from John 0 Groats to Lands End and then the idea came to run up the three peaks and swim the lakes and try to raise money for charity …
5 Despite disclaimers which recommended submission to great works , the professional study of English came to transcend even the literary masterpieces themselves by virtue of its capacity to offer a complete and final assessment and achieve the kind of complete historical understanding unavailable to the historical actors themselves .
6 And then there Further up the glen from me , from our , house there 's a place called Dalnasnecht It 's a little place in the beside the water and beyond it there 's a great piece of ground on the hill and it was called er Argyll 's Reed where Argy Where all Where Argyll 's men stayed when they came to burn down the bonny house early , Forter Castle .
7 He added : ‘ The chancellor must come to explain why the secret arrangements were such that the public were never to know that this payment had been made . ’
8 The child comes to know when the special time is and guards it .
9 This remark had important implications in the theory of the technique of psychoanalysis , where transference — the way the analyst comes to take on the emotional elements of a parent figure for the analysand — plays a key part in understanding the therapeutic effects of psychoanalysis .
10 When it does so , it has a bigger meal than it can manage by itself and many another animal comes to lap up the spilt yolk .
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