Example sentences of "[adv] came to [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He only came to life when she began unbuttoning his trousers , for as she touched his fly buttons , so he grabbed at his belt . |
| 2 | ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War . |
| 3 | Part of the scandal only came to light when an eagle-eyed bank clerk spotted changes made to the bank destination information on an authorised cheque from Craven Grain . |
| 4 | The crimes only came to light in 1990 when one of Oldfield 's victims , then an adult , was himself charged with indecency to children . |
| 5 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 6 | Parts of the contents of the manual only came to light as a result of criminal trials following an incident at Orgreave during the strike , at which some of the techniques were implemented for the first time . |
| 7 | The spraying of the pesticide , Galecron , took place in 1976 , but only came to light during a recent Swiss TV programme . |
| 8 | ( Details only came to light in 1972 , when London Transport received a compulsory purchase order , in connection with a further rebuilding of the bridge . ) |
| 9 | The offences only came to light because of an attempt to inflate profits at Alexander Howden , which was discovered by the American company Alexander and Alexander after it bought the company . |
| 10 | It only came to light today . ’ |
| 11 | News of the car smuggling scandal only came to light when Col. Luis Catalino González Rojas , commander of the fourth infantry division , defied orders and leaked evidence of the affair to the press . |
| 12 | ‘ But , unfortunately , this undesirable side to your brother 's character only came to light after I 'd hired you . |
| 13 | The assault only came to light four days later , when he went to hospital for treatment . |
| 14 | Her case only came to light because the Health Authority meeting were mistakenly sent to the media . |
| 15 | The matter only came to light when police , conducting an inquiry into the running of children 's homes in North Wales , interviewed the boy last year . |
| 16 | The matter only came to light when police , conducting an inquiry into the running of children 's homes in North Continued on Page 5 Continued from Page 1 Wales , interviewed the boy last year . |
| 17 | Police were not informed and the matter only came to light last year during a police investigation into the running of children 's homes in North Wales . |
| 18 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 19 | A thought suddenly came to mind . |
| 20 | He was potentially a useful ally and one with whom Edward needed to keep on good terms , if only because of his claim to the French throne ; but he proved unreliable and the expedition to Normandy was aborted when he suddenly came to terms with John II . |
| 21 | It literally came to light by accident when it fell out of a bag — it was God 's will , I suppose . ’ |
| 22 | Despite such claims , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that in both the USA and the UK , the audio-visual movement rarely came to grips with the need for an elaborated theory going beyond the use of audio-visual materials as decorative additions to the traditional lesson . |
| 23 | Mosquitos rarely came to grief . |
| 24 | And given the extensive fear of denunciation for critical or defeatist comment , it is hardly surprising that negative remarks about the speeches rarely came to light . |
| 25 | He received another , more peremptory , order and eventually came to Addis Ababa with ten thousand men . |
| 26 | So they drove round the outskirts of the Burleigh grounds , and eventually came to Cannonbury Road . |
| 27 | He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar . |
| 28 | According to Morolli : ‘ The seed sown by Lorenzo eventually came to fruition in Rome in the time of his son Giovanni , the future Pope Leo X. Seen in this light , Bramante and Raphael are the products of Florentine taste ’ . |
| 29 | Conflict was deferred by the attempt to reach agreement along the lines of ‘ Manchuria for Korea ’ ( Mankan kó0kan ) ( i.e. Manchuria for Russia and Korea for Japan ) , but the two countries eventually came to blows in 1904 over the failure of Russian troops to withdraw on schedule from Manchuria . |
| 30 | Her brother just came to Handley Farm to say she has n't gone back . ’ |