Example sentences of "came [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said to Rourke , ‘ You wanted to know if I 'd lent out keys to anyone — the telephone engineer , you said , and the man who came to see to the new extension around the back . ’ |
| 2 | He came to stoop over the trussed man , tested his bonds with a fierce and agonising tug . |
| 3 | Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road . |
| 4 | the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York |
| 5 | One evening Leopold Zborowski , a Polish poet , came to look at the modern paintings exhibited and was immediately taken by Modigliani 's remarkable talent . |
| 6 | He noted given unto a Newlands man who came to look at the supposed Wad Mine at Conistone 5s . " |
| 7 | As the light failed , it came to look like the mysterious seas on the moon . |
| 8 | Bradman and the umpire disagreed and Cec came to play in the Central Lancashire League where he became a legend for his fiery bowling , lusty hitting and astonishing turns of phrase . |
| 9 | Air lifts were now out of the question , but trains were still a practical proposition — as Chadwick discovered when he came to deal with the Nazi official in charge of emigration . |
| 10 | His eyes came to rest on the tear-stained face of Mrs Bennett , whose baby had so recently died , and he suffered a pang of pity for her . |
| 11 | And as the last shots were being fired , the Syrian tank came to rest outside the very door of the building which housed Lebanon 's ‘ democratic ’ parliament . |
| 12 | Then he kicked and came to rest against the far wall . |
| 13 | With some telepathy at work , his questing glance came to rest in the exact square of window in which her face appeared . |
| 14 | it came to rest in the soft ground 100 yards on . |
| 15 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
| 16 | ( He goes on to describe how swans came to settle in the public lakes of the city . ) |
| 17 | In 1955 a solitary bottlenose dolphin came to live in the remote Hokianga Harbour in Northland , New Zealand , and was soon to cause a sensation . |
| 18 | Telecommunications policy became more controversial in the 1980S as it came to feature on the political agendas of each nation and of Europe , or Europes . |
| 19 | But in time Christian people came to ask after the fundamental values of Christianity ; such that slavery then became an impossibility . |
| 20 | Later , Valencia came to dominate as the major lustreware centre . |
| 21 | Sir Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador came to speak at the White Rock Pavilion , Hastings , at his request . |
| 22 | It was the first in a series of brutal references to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ which Hitler came to make during the following years . |