Example sentences of "come [adv prt] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 32 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 33 | She said coolly as they came up to the stuffed spaniel , ‘ What do you call him , that very fierce dog ? ’ |
| 34 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 35 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 36 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
| 37 | Time and time again discussions about tears came back to the central theme of the wish to be cared for-not all the time , the women with whom I talked were quite clear about that . |
| 38 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
| 39 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 40 | Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ? |
| 41 | It came back to the same thing . |
| 42 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
| 43 | I came back to the beautiful beach house from shopping . |
| 44 | Sounds came back to the watching eagles . |
| 45 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 46 | Rachaela did as she was told , and came out to the examining table , very white with something on it like a large paper towel . |
| 47 | Theodora circled the house in the direction of the arrow and came round to the back door . |
| 48 | In effect this has meant approximately 400,000 new and inexperienced customers coming on to the overseas market each year , and it is this that has kept the traditional inclusive tour package alive . |
| 49 | There will thus be an increase in the supply of pounds coming on to the foreign exchange market . |
| 50 | This will therefore lead to an increase in the supply of pounds coming on to the foreign exchange markets . |
| 51 | Andy 's coming along to the next C S M T |
| 52 | Are you coming down to the great burrow ? " |
| 53 | er he wants money coming in to the central fund er if has in two years time to face a , a trial , these allegations so be it , but meanwhile he wants the money to come in to the central fund for the reason he 's outlined |
| 54 | ‘ Did you now ? ’ said Hilary , coming in to the sick bay , which was really no more than a scruffy little room with only a slight hospital smell about it to bespeak its function . |
| 55 | Coming up to the additional assessment |
| 56 | We 're entitled now you know to have all sorts of things done at the doctors , coming up to the right age to be hav to be done er |
| 57 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 58 | I think he 's coming I think he 's coming up to the high week group , what is he ? |
| 59 | After her return , after that heart-sinking moment of coming back to the greasy frying pan and the littered table , there was cleaning . |
| 60 | ‘ I keep coming back to the same point , John . |