Example sentences of "came to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Amnesty 's earliest releases , in 1964 he came to London to light a candle for Amnesty . |
| 2 | She told me that she was eight years old , the eldest of six children , when the security men came to the army camp to arrest her father , an officer in the Moroccan army , in 1972 . |
| 3 | Bridget Riley came to prominence as an artist in the 1960s , when her dazzling patterned paintings were a clear success in British Op Art . |
| 4 | When she came to writing for her college project , she found other material ; this will enable her to enjoy the work more fully on a second visit . |
| 5 | From all his great range of delicate visual experiences Corot came to be satisfied with one — shimmery light reflected from water , and passing through the delicate leaves of birches and willows . |
| 6 | There were other things that had to be reconciled , and we hear presently of ‘ a role of inherent superiority which came to me from outside , from the servants among others . |
| 7 | What he does seem to mind — and what even the most arbitrary-seeming , the most ludic , of his ironic and erotic diversions and excursions show that he minds — is the regime that came to power in his native country after the revolution of 1948 . |
| 8 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 9 | It informs us of the ‘ forces ’ which shaped Roth 's tours de force of the Sixties and early Seventies , and it informs us of how he came to be where he is now . |
| 10 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 11 | Did you have any experience of a kind that helped you before you came to drama school ? |
| 12 | When you came to London to audition finally was it your first visit here ? |
| 13 | A S. I remember when I was working as a dogsbody in the 59 Theatre Company in Manchester a group of Central School students came to be the spirits in a production of The Tempest and these were Pisk trained and had , it seemed to me then , a marvellous range of body language . |
| 14 | I came to the school with considerable amateur experience of Shakespeare with the Oxford University Dramatic Society and had even played in a real theatre in Oxford . |
| 15 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 16 | Divided up into three groupings , the A , B , and C special constabularies , according to diminishing power , responsibility , and time commitment , the force was soon cut down to class B only and these came to be known as the ‘ B Specials ’ , a thoroughly armed , militant , semi-private , and sectarian army . |
| 17 | From its domination by the old ascendancy , the Orange order in particular came to embrace protestants from all classes and churches . |
| 18 | Papal encyclicals came to be consulted by this route , as did the current treatises of Ius Publicun on church — state relations . |
| 19 | As Ireland opened up to foreign investment under de Valera 's successor , Sean Lemass , another element in the value structure came to prominence , namely the obligation to achieve and retain full employment within the context of a modernized economy and a satisfactory level of housing , welfare , and medical care for all . |
| 20 | The economic growth of the 1960s and early 1970s came to grief because of the western economic slump of the last decade and the massive increase in the Southern population . |
| 21 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 22 | Taj Group sales and marketing vice-president Pankaj Balija said if hotel companies came to India they would find stiff competition . |
| 23 | The idea for such an ambitious ( but surprisingly nightmare-free ) project was first mooted in 1989 when Professor Dai came to Norwich to attend a post-graduate degree course in tourism . |
| 24 | ‘ It was talked about a lot , but never really came to fruition . |
| 25 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 26 | Once they 'd realized this , the villagers came to her often with their problems . |
| 27 | The door of No. 4 was open , the room empty ; No. 3 , the room his mother shared with Bunty Baird , was shut , and as he came to it he heard a sharp crack , a yelp and Bunty 's voice ‘ Oh shog off , you silly old fool , beat it ! ’ |
| 28 | He thumbed through it till he came to Merrivale . |
| 29 | When he first came to Chilton , Harry Dodson recalls that the pest controller in the glasshouses was a large old toad . |
| 30 | As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say . |