Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christmas Eve assault has only just come to light because the 13-year-old victim was too terrified to report it earlier . |
| 2 | Peter Chapple-Hyam , his trainer , says that Rodrigo de Triano , winner of the Middle Park Stakes , has only really come to himself this week . |
| 3 | The road has only recently come to Uçagiz ; the whole area emanates a powerful feeling of being on the edge of the world . |
| 4 | He 's not seen me , they 've gone straight past , he has not yet come to terms with the fact that his mummy 's a queen . |
| 5 | A guilt compounded by the suicide five years ago of his sister Angela ( nine years his senior ) , with which he admits he has not yet come to terms . |
| 6 | He has not yet come to a conclusion on that . |
| 7 | This RTP ( reduce to products ) contract was expected to last two-and-a-half years , and has just about come to an end after less than two . |
| 8 | We may well find that what we are saying comes to others as God 's word with prophetic power , as it has already so come to us . |
| 9 | What happened next was to so profoundly influence the way the typesetting market operated that it still has n't fully come to terms with the consequences . |
| 10 | ‘ Colonel Fagg has never quite come to terms with the end of the Second World War , I 'm afraid , Elsa . |
| 11 | Third , we will set down the perspective of the Left within the Labour Party — the party that has very belatedly come to an awareness of the significance of constitutional politics and of the need for change . |
| 12 | Also the person who has helped us sort out maybe come to sensible engineering conclusion on the minor problem , but be saying to his chief , there was a problem with the York though I just managed to sort it out . |
| 13 | They were likely to make trouble , having not yet come to terms with the hurried departure of Mrs Thatcher following upon the events of November 1990 . |
| 14 | or go back right coming to patronizing the |
| 15 | Vidor was to confess that he had started ‘ with the definite idea ’ that he wanted ‘ to make a film that did not simply come to town to play three days or a week and then was forgotten ’ and it was always his conviction that the proper subjects for such a film would be the beauty of rural America and the fundamental decency of ordinary Americans . |
| 16 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 17 | AS has been pointed out in your magazine , the ITV coverage of the World Cup was very good , although promises that the BBC would be totally outshone did not really come to much . |
| 18 | France 's increased commitment to space , which dates from the late 1950s , did not really come to fruition until the late 1970s . |
| 19 | In Island Export and Finance Ltd v Umunna [ 1986 ] BCLC 460 it was held that a director 's fiduciary duty did not necessarily come to an end when he ceased to be a director . |
| 20 | Solly Zuckerman and J. D. Bernal were roped into Combined Operations Headquarters ( COHQ ) by Lord Louis Mountbatten , along with that lateral thinker Geoffrey Pyke ( New Scientist , 30 July 1981 , p 302 ) , the inventor of the giant iceberg ship Habbakuk and many other projects which did not quite come to fruition . |
| 21 | If you scatter seed on the ground you will build up a substantial clientele of birds such as chaffinches which do not readily come to hanging food and birdtables . |
| 22 | Being unable to travel ‘ up there ’ in time to review this splendid collection , the ‘ mountain ’ did n't exactly come to me , but we made a ‘ kitchen table ’ job of it … or nearly ! |
| 23 | I suspected that Gillian was getting rid of Wyatt as a way of breaking with her father ( who did n't even come to the wedding , incidentally ) and pointing out to her Mum what she ought to have done years before . |
| 24 | I mean the old man was well in his seventies and he , he was secondary , you see he never even er , he , he did n't even come to the funeral , Clifford 's funeral and Margaret was very bitter about that . |
| 25 | Do n't just come to us because we can put your record out . |
| 26 | I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ? |
| 27 | Why do n't you sponsor you know , members who do n't normally come to meetings , to sponsor erm a site for |
| 28 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 29 | It had only just come to be important before the ‘ unnatural ’ town of the industrial revolution conjured up some of the most dramatic and ‘ romanticized ’ of contrasts . |
| 30 | Chopra had glimpsed into the mind and understood ; an understanding which had only recently come to him , as his body aged and his life-force drained away . |