Example sentences of "we come to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we came to a final stop we were carried up many flights of stairs , taken into an apartment and dumped on the floor . |
| 2 | Then , after quite a while , we came to a small clearing . |
| 3 | Masha and I found further cause for depression as , walking in search of a tube station , we came to a major intersection , a roundabout of relentless , screeching vehicles , three and four abreast : for in the centre , on the small concrete island , we saw a man lying on his side . |
| 4 | ‘ Eventually we came to a mutual understanding whereby I would fill out five forms to cover each £50 cheque and I actually ended up signing 25 forms and five cheques to obtain my fuel . |
| 5 | At the forward end of that we came to a glass-panelled door , which needed no key , and suddenly we were in the comparative quietness of the drivers ' cab , right at the front of the train . |
| 6 | ‘ We came to a lonely place where I could hear the sea crashing on rocks near by . |
| 7 | After two days of arduous travel , we came to a dark-flowing river . |
| 8 | Soon after setting off we came to a forested valley along the banks of the Gwaun . |
| 9 | At about four o'clock in the afternoon , just before dusk , we came to a wooded bluff . |
| 10 | ‘ Part-way along the gorge we came to a smooth cavity that had been ground into the rock by swift flowing water . |
| 11 | We walked further along till we came to a quiet part . |
| 12 | Finally we came to a high plastic wall . |
| 13 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
| 14 | Someone whistled them out when we came to the narrowest place , bows strung and shafts fitted , shouting to us to halt . |
| 15 | There is nothing new in that ; we came to the same conclusion earlier when studying the field of a line charge . |
| 16 | Eventually we came to the Old Mill area where there were no railings at the waterside , making the mill pond quite a frightening place for small children . |
| 17 | But when we came to the Old Town , the Marshal and Sapt moved nearer to my horse , and I could see that they were afraid for me . |
| 18 | When we came to the German trenches there was nothing to see . |
| 19 | When we came to the third hole I thought we were going to need some of that cushion . |
| 20 | We look like we came to the wrong party — like we brought our adopted son to his friend 's birthday , and called at the wrong address . |
| 21 | We come to a spatio-temporal individual or particular , but not one which is an ordinary thing . |
| 22 | We come to a stubby cylinder of undressed stone ; the second of the two chimneys from the old railway tunnel under the hill . |
| 23 | Here we come to a delicate area . |
| 24 | The ash-fall which buried Pompeii and the mudflow which covered Herculaneum , however , are first-class examples of two major kinds of volcanic phenomena , which have been repeated scores of times on different volcanoes in different parts of the world and we will be following them up more closely when we come to a detailed consideration of the mechanisms of eruptions . |
| 25 | Finally , we come to the new county of Mid-Glamorgan , which inherited as its institution of higher education the Glamorgan Polytechnic , at Treforest , Pontypridd . |
| 26 | In summary , we come to the following conclusion : |
| 27 | Now we come to the current account — the year-by-year income and expenditure on which the holding will succeed or fail . |
| 28 | Now we come to the serious part of this letter . |
| 29 | So we come to the second implication , which is that the student has to understand the practical aspects of the life of reason . |
| 30 | At this stage we do not know whether the " dayes ' are general ( which would imply that the missing verb is are ) or particular ; but we get a clearer picture when we come to the second clause " when I / Shin " d " . |