Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 2 | Following the appointment of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1653 , religious considerations once more came to the fore , although whether they ever took precedence over the more secular impulses behind foreign policy is doubtful . |
| 3 | For example , fraud and forgery usually only come to light when an organisation discovers the offender . |
| 4 | His relationship with the motor industry probably really came to the attention of the public in 1967 when he entered the world of rally driving in a self-prepared Mini Cooper S. The next year , in a Ford Escort 1600 , he took his first Scottish Championship title . |
| 5 | The patient described here took an overdose not long after her marriage somewhat unexpectedly came to an end . |
| 6 | Andre once again came to the rescue of his country , the USA , in the deciding rubber of the quarter-final of the 1992 Davis Cup . |
| 7 | Almost nine months later , we found an engine without the accessories , and Continental Airlines once again came to the rescue , flying Tim , our mechanic Chuck Blanchard and me out to see if we could get the Tri-Pacer flying again . |
| 8 | The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief , and it is not altogether surprising that it does . |
| 9 | But wordings which did not take the shape of a request also soon came to be accepted . |
| 10 | The child or young person very seldom comes to the social worker or agency to state a case for social work intervention in his or her affairs . |
| 11 | Her large supporting cast never really comes to life , and she allows too many strangely unfocused interruptions to her narrative flow . |
| 12 | If you feel a client is talking crudely , you hake not yet come to terms with your own feeling that there is something crude about sex . |
| 13 | Some who came at the outset no longer come to events , but others have joined since . |
| 14 | Charles Temple almost certainly came to Northern Nigeria with the idea of another Punjab in mind : his father , the distinguished Indian administrator Sir Richard Temple , had been in his youth one of John Lawrence 's hard-riding young men , and it was he who wrote in 1901 asking for his son ‘ to become one of the recruits which Lugard is raising for Nigeria . |
| 15 | But with banks and investors wary , the company may have little choice — unless , of course , Walt Disney once again comes to the rescue , as it did by deferring its management fee . |
| 16 | Brownie helper Barbara once more came to the rescue and during the next week brought her daughter 's cassette tape-recorder to my home where , in spite of my nerves and her dim knowledge of recording , we managed to get the music for a small sequence on tape . |
| 17 | Used as tracking dogs and guide dogs for the blind , the Rottweiler 's versatility and willingness to please his master once again came to his rescue . |
| 18 | The two actors reputedly almost came to blows and ended the film not talking to each other . |