Example sentences of "came [adv prt] to the [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 Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years .
4 He came down to the front door with me .
5 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 .
6 Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job .
7 The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair .
8 If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement .
9 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 .
10 The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B.
11 A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job .
12 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 .
13 He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man .
14 She said coolly as they came up to the stuffed spaniel , ‘ What do you call him , that very fierce dog ? ’
15 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 ! ’
16 A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question .
17 She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day .
21 Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ?
22 It came back to the same thing .
23 He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD .
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 .
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