Example sentences of "came [adv prt] to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came on to the golden sand and stood in silence , winds of light moving over them plainly , despite the brightness of the evening sunshine . |
| 2 | Primary Health Care , understood as an approach to health care going beyond the medical model to include the promotive , rehabilitative and educational dimensions of health care in addition to curative/treatment dimensions , came on to the international stage in 1978 at the conference of Alma Ata . |
| 3 | However , setting this aside and taking parent-authorisation at face value , the high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage perceived to be casual or persistent truants . |
| 4 | The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows . |
| 5 | Following these now disregarded signs of past activity along the old path , I traversed the hillside and came down to a crumbling stone sheepfold with the roofless remains of a shepherd 's hut built into one wall . |
| 6 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 7 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 8 | Cathery also added : " Lewis and Cannon ( the branch secretary ) came down to the Central Office and I let [ them ] see all the books , cheque book , bank passbook etc. ; in fact all they wanted to see . |
| 9 | The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair . |
| 10 | Apart from these three , reports came in to the Royal Society from more than fifty other vessels , whose log-books provided a valuable source of information , particularly since officers-of-the-watch habitually keep a note of the time at which observations are made . |
| 11 | She came off to a reasonable round . |
| 12 | By the time he came off to a huge ovation , Essex were dawdling along at 99-3 off 36 overs . |
| 13 | Only one out of 208 pints served in 104 pubs , clubs and restaurants in Birmingham came up to a full measure , trading standards officers disclosed . |
| 14 | A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job . |
| 15 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 16 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 17 | She said coolly as they came up to the stuffed spaniel , ‘ What do you call him , that very fierce dog ? ’ |
| 18 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 19 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 20 | About halfway across the Channel a man in a plastic mackintosh came back to a nearby table and announced that the rain had finally stopped — just our luck , he added . |
| 21 | Time and time again discussions about tears came back to the central theme of the wish to be cared for-not all the time , the women with whom I talked were quite clear about that . |
| 22 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
| 23 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 24 | I came back to the beautiful beach house from shopping . |
| 25 | Sounds came back to the watching eagles . |
| 26 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 27 | Rachaela did as she was told , and came out to the examining table , very white with something on it like a large paper towel . |
| 28 | Theodora circled the house in the direction of the arrow and came round to the back door . |