Example sentences of "came to [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the second half , Saracens came to life with an early try from winger , 0'Leary and a feeling of fear gripped the crowd for a time . |
| 2 | As one Anglican incumbent noted , the liturgy ‘ came to life in a new way ’ with such music and the recent publication of Gospel Praise reflects the growing interest in it . |
| 3 | The room came to life in a soft , yellow glow . |
| 4 | He came to photography via a Fine Arts degree , a teaching qualification and a career which combined teaching , private painting projects and social work . |
| 5 | The spraying of the pesticide , Galecron , took place in 1976 , but only came to light during a recent Swiss TV programme . |
| 6 | The incidents , which occurred while Tunstall worked as a postman in Darlington last October , came to light after an internal investigation . |
| 7 | Eliot came to Christianity through a sophisticated decadence which he was able to see as going hand in hand with the most primitive life . |
| 8 | The President 's plans for an Architecture Centre at Portland Place came to fruition with an exciting and expanding programme of events . |
| 9 | Two years after the photograph had been taken Nasser came to power in a nationalist revolution which signalled the end for the European community in Alexandria , as it did for European domination of Egyptian affairs . |
| 10 | In fact , Pilsudski came to power in a bloody putsch and presided over gross human-rights violations , the brutal crushing of strikes and virtual civil war with the national minorities . |
| 11 | Anti-Communism lay behind several setbacks to early Soviet initiatives in the area , notably the closure of the first trading office in Latin America , Iuzhamtorg ( set up in Buenos Aires in 1927 ) , by the military regime of General José Uriburu who came to power in a 1930 coup . |
| 12 | In 1979 , when it came to power after a long and vicious civil war the new government detained between 7,000 and 8,000 former members of the National Guard . |
| 13 | Even President Jimmy Carter , who came to office in a house-cleansing operation after the shambles of Richard Nixon 's resignation , indulged in a variety of covert operations around the world , including the supply of weapons by the CIA from America and other sources to Afghan rebel forces fighting against the Russians . |
| 14 | Waking or sleeping his mind fretted away at the case , images drifted in and out of his consciousness , words and phrases came to mind in a confusing jumble but once , in a doze , it seemed that Beryl was actually speaking to him in her clear , cracked voice . |
| 15 | Years ago we stored water in a big cream pot but that came to grief during a hard frost and we had to resort on one occasion to a possing tub — that is a fluted tub made from galvanized metal which was common to most households before washing machines — which , of course , had to be used for soaking the dirty clothes on washing day . |