Example sentences of "and come [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) Native Egyptian culture declined during the Hellenistic period because it was under the direct control of Greeks and came to represent an inferior stratum of the population . |
| 2 | Edward Harriman began as a $5-a-week office boy and came to head a mighty railroad empire . |
| 3 | Presbyterians retained a consciousness of their Scottish origins and came to have a significant presence in the local economy and finance institutions , predominating in the North and East . |
| 4 | They will encounter and come to understand a wide range of feelings and relationships by entering vicariously the worlds of others , and in consequence are likely to understand more of themselves . |
| 5 | He had lived in Normandy for seven months , he had learned the French language and come to love the French countryside , yet now , just as if he had never met Lucille , he spoke of the french as a hated enemy . |
| 6 | If the hair should snap off from the tear , it may drift for many kilometres on the wind , falling slowly , and come to rest a long way down-wind from the vent . |
| 7 | Patterns of grouping and spatial dispersion are closely related to food resources and foraging strategy and come to constitute the demographic environment within which social selection determining behaviour responsible for mating and rearing strategies occurs . |
| 8 | Every few minutes a large solid mass breaks off and topples forward in a cascade of loose , glowing material , and comes to rest a few feet from the main mass , leaving a fading , sullen red glowing scar to mark the place on the flow where it came from . |