Example sentences of "i come [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It was on these - " moderate " walks that I came to appreciate the astonishing versatility of' the Dales , how inhospitably barren they can look from the brow of one hill , then how welcomingly like the gentle South Downs from the next ; how one village , little more than a pub and a row of stone cottages , might be as gaunt and forbidding as some remote Highland hamlet , while another will be so prettified and roses-round-the-door picturesque that , but for the backcloth of soaring hills or looming crags , and the uncoursed rubble walls wending like strips of children 's Plasticine up to the horizon , it could be in Mummerset . |
2 | And that was how I came to join the Western Mail and stayed from 1958 to 61 , during which time the ownership changed from Kemsleys to Thomsons . |
3 | With my impressions stored up from the initial set of interviews , I came to see an intriguing challenge . |
4 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
5 | ‘ I came to hate the Tech-Green philosophy and did n't want to live out an expanded life up there somewhere , looking down on the unfortunates left on Earth . |
6 | Basically , I come to praise the positive steps taken by Health Ministers over the past five years , although in a minor way I will ask for reconsideration of a wrong done to a medical practice in my constituency . |
7 | Before I come to discuss the philosophical problems that are raised by this sort of account of self and autonomy , I want to look at what I have called its implicit politics ; and what I mean by this primarily is its possible consequences for the way in which women might think about their relationships to each other , and the way in which they might think about themselves . |