Example sentences of "came to the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Melvin came to the New Inn at Pembridge in Herefordshire in 1984 , and turned it into one of the most popular country pubs in the county . |
| 2 | One actress Lizzie Bancroft came to the final rehearsal with a two week old baby . |
| 3 | Oh So Risky , who ran away with the Triumph Hurdle — the crown for four-year-olds — at the 1991 Festival , came to the final flight in last year 's Champion Hurdle with the race apparently won , and Sheikh Mohammed 's Royal Gait had to bash two others aside to finally get to David Elsworth 's five-year-old in a photo finish . |
| 4 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 5 | And they still came to the famous dinners at his house , where the food , and the music , and the conversation were the best in London . |
| 6 | ‘ I had to be in charge , ’ he later said , ‘ when it came to the actual making of the films . |
| 7 | Sammy Davis Jnr also came to the fore thanks to Sinatra . |
| 8 | In my judgment , both Potts J. and Phillips J. came to the right conclusions for the right reasons . |
| 9 | Sleep came to the distant noise of a ship 's siren , blown once , but echoing , a long way off . |
| 10 | When it came to the major events in the life of that other world outside Baldersdale , such as Christmas , the celebrations were muted , to say the least . |
| 11 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 12 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 13 | Among the dream visions that came to the strange visitor to the Clydeside were ‘ The Spanish Military Nun ’ , ‘ The Revolt of the Tartars ’ , and ‘ On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth ’ . |
| 14 | When at last they came to the lower end of Spring Street , Agnes stopped and , looking from one to the other , she said , ‘ This is where I live ; I 'll be all right now . |
| 15 | Leonora Buckmaster came to the front doorway as the Daimler pulled up . |
| 16 | The commonplace accusations of medieval anti- feminism came to the Middle Ages as an ecclesiastical tradition . |
| 17 | There was a catch in her voice and he took her arm as they came to the magnificent front of the cathedral . |
| 18 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 19 | Darwin and Wallace came to the same conclusion about archipelago birds . |
| 20 | But instead of releasing it he began to kiss each finger in turn until he came to the pale circle on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 21 | At last they came to the topmost ridge of the mountain , and there lay a great field of cloud ahead of them . |
| 22 | It was this fact which led Lord Lyons to comment that the government did not lead so much as follow when it came to the last stages of the crisis . |
| 23 | At Doncaster Mr Frisk , who came to the last fence in front in the Hennessy Gold Cup , should gain compensation in the Constant Security Handicap Chase , and Red Ruddel can gain his fourth consecutive victory of the season . |
| 24 | She had n't done that she said since she was my age and came to the last page of Le Rouge et le Noir . |
| 25 | The expedition then sailed out into the Pacific until , 600 miles from the mainland , they came to the lonely archipelago of the Galapagos . |
| 26 | Another stipendiary magistrate , heard argument about abuse of the process and came to the opposite conclusion from Mr Bartle , namely that delay in Mr Cherry 's case did not constitute an abuse of the process . |
| 27 | I came to the braided reaches of the river where it swung out over the sands , and adjusted my steps so that I cleared all the channels easily and cleanly , a leap at a time . |
| 28 | We still worked for our own papers but pooled our resources when it came to the human-interest pieces for the Sundays . |
| 29 | Charlie ignored the order and crawled quickly forward until he came to the prostrate body of his friend . |