Example sentences of "came [adv] [adv] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Despite the difficulties Frere was committed to his new life and regretted only that enthusiasm came less easily to his wife .
2 When Liz came downstairs again to her party , after a ritual exchange ( how could her sister bear such intercourse ? how could it go on ? ) she found that she had lost her velocity .
3 He describes five years of hell and terror , as the bulldozers clearing space for Ceausescu 's Palace came ever closer to his house .
4 Her bare flesh came close enough to his face for him to inhale its pungent female odour and he peered around desperately into the gloom for some sign of his French companion .
5 He came back unsmilingly to her side .
6 And he was so puppyish that first time they came round together to my place .
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