Example sentences of "[noun] came [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numbers were quickly drawn and the lucky winners came forward to collect their prize from the manufacturers and dealers who donated them . |
| 2 | The agent came forward to meet her , a short , plump man , nattily dressed , with thinning hair and a black moustache . |
| 3 | The year 1726 saw this difficulty emerge in an aggravated form in the county of Stirling , where two candidates came forward to challenge the re-election of MacFarlane of Kirkton , who had enjoyed the endorsement of the Duke of Montrose for several years past . |
| 4 | Since it was essential that the moment I awoke each morning , the first words , sentences , if possible , paragraphs came readily to mind , last thing at night , instead of my prayers , my mind was instructed to grind on with the pages . |
| 5 | From the mid-1970s , left parties came increasingly to adopt a more radical approach to the consensus ( chapter 18 ) . |
| 6 | In effect , the two new superpowers came together to crush the great powers of yesteryear ; and the growing voice of Afro-Asia in world affairs was heeded for the first time . |
| 7 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 8 | Herluin without hesitation came hungrily to peer . |
| 9 | But as the painting was not yet dry he kept it in his room , and when a buyer came unexpectedly to see Modigliani and offered him ten francs for her portrait he took the money . |
| 10 | Ben came here to win . ' |
| 11 | The groups came together to share their thoughts with everybody else , and through drama and collages , young people between the ages of 11 and 18 from Runcorn , Warrington and Frodsham were able to share their ideas with each other . |
| 12 | Schinkel came specially to see the Docks , and did not even like Nash 's Regent Street . |
| 13 | On the day when Katherine came home to find the easel her father had given her collapsed on the floor and the careful copy she had been making of Vermeer 's ‘ Girl with a Mandolin' splattered with red paint , she made her decision . |
| 14 | After the party the house guests came downstairs to eat under the arcaded edge of a courtyard . |
| 15 | Public buildings came increasingly to reflect the size and spectacle of it all . |
| 16 | At the far end was a place where the backs of four high buildings came together to form a small courtyard . |
| 17 | Following this vote , a procession of legislators came forward to acknowledge their guilt in the affair prior to the list 's publication . |
| 18 | On the third day of the course the group came together to share their experiences . |
| 19 | Artists such as Turner , Cotman and John Martin came here to record the fiery scenes of the ‘ satanic mills ’ whose blast-furnaces belched flames into the sky and seemed to the Romantics something like visions of hell . |
| 20 | A watchman came forward to meet us , a splendid fellow in white pantaloons and a white silk waistcoat . |
| 21 | Farmers came here to sell their stock and buy provisions . |
| 22 | This trade unionism came eventually to believe in the need for parliamentary representation to safeguard its interests , and from the start determined the course of political intervention . |
| 23 | Two crucial stages in this were the formation of an alliance with the Emperor Alexius I Comnenus of Byzantium against the Norman empire threatening to spread into Venice 's Adriatic and Byzantine Greece in the 1080s ; and the role Venice came increasingly to play in the crusading adventures of the twelfth century . |
| 24 | Every Hellenistic hymn to Apollo came naturally to include an allusion to the god 's triumph over the Celts . |
| 25 | A policeman came earlier to break the news to Miss Garland . ’ |
| 26 | Martha came forward to help , and Miss Mary looked carefully at Colin 's thin white back , up and down . |
| 27 | His Majesty 's submarine Taureg came home to base smoothly and smartly , escorted by a frigate of the Free Netherlands Navy . |
| 28 | According to the book of legends you have just shown us , Arthur came here to drink from the Grail , whilst one of his knights , Sir Bedivere , reputedly took Excalibur down to Narepool which is only three miles from Glastonbury . |
| 29 | Young Mr Merrivale came here to get it . |
| 30 | But it was n't until 1975 , when the German authorities announced their intention to build their own nuclear plant on the opposite side of the river Rhine , near the town of Wyhl , that people from both sides of the border came together to protest . |