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Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] came to [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	And then er , there 's a long line of changing jobs and eventually I came to Dudley .
2	Eventually I came to terms with doing what I call a ‘ sequence of interesting things ’ .
3	So I came to Walsall again , when I left Walsall I never wanted to , to come back to Walsall er because of two reasons .
4	Adding to these the 431 children sponsored by Inter-Aid in the months before Kristallnacht , the 700 or so who came to Britain under the auspices of Youth Allyah , the 100 orthodox children rescued by Rabbi Schonfeld and the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations , and the Polish and Czech refugees saved by Nicholas Winton and his friends , brings the total to well over 10,000 .
5	Suddenly it came to Hazel that if Bigwig was dead — and what else could hold him silent in the mud ? — then he himself must get the others away before the dreadful loss could drain their courage and break their spirit — as it would if they stayed by the body .
6	So he came to Talbothays at twenty-six , as a student .
7	Leaving the seaside resort behind them , they drove out towards the country and soon they came to Wakefield .
8	Soon he came to value this practice very much .
9	‘ No , no , ’ I reply , ‘ It 's just what came to hand . ’
10	Eventually she came to Byblos and succeeded in having the palace column removed and thus was able to retrieve the casket and take it back to Egypt , where she hid it in the marshes of the Delta .
11	The nearest I came to fishing was as number three in a racing four on the grubby River Tees , when I joined the Tees Amateur Rowing Club .
12	‘ And you put food in , against the King 's orders , before ever you came to Nicosia ?
13	But the nearest they came to scoring was in the forty third minute ; Neil Keller in the Rayners Lane goal saving brilliantly from a fifteen yard volley from Martin Shepherd .
14	If ever it came to court !
15	The nearer we came to Halifax , we found the houses thicker , and the villages greater in every bottom ; and not only so , but the sides of the hills , which were very steep every way , were spread with houses , and that very thick ; for the land being divided into small enclosures , that is to say , from two acres to six or seven acres each seldom more ; every three or four pieces of land had a house belonging to it .
16	Later it came to Lord Eldon .
17	Now they came to King Michael 's white city of Ledyen and raised their tents beneath its walls .
18	Then a short time ago she came to Edward in a great state . ’
19	Oh well he came to Llaneilian to be a sexton of the church .
20	His family has been involved in braiding and ropework for more than a century , and four years ago he came to Newtonmore to set up a small , high quality production facility for climbing ropes .
21	Nasser maintained his memories of the peasants all his life and often referred to their plight before even he came to power .
22	‘ Then I came to England .
23	Then I came to Newgate Prison , where a drunk old man showed me the place where prisoners were hanged , and told me excitedly that four men would die there tomorrow .
24	Erm if you passed , erm you did a stint and then you came to College , Nottingham for your teaching ticket .
25	Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall .
26	Then we came to Rashidiyeh .
27	A long time ago when I was six years old me and Neil went out mise chifing I chut a stown and it naile it a wondow then we ran off then we came to somedody garben then we clad up there tree and shouted fatet .
28	Then it came to March and I did n't come on .
29	And then he came to Europe and , and really , let it all go .
30	Yes oh I ee I , I 'm led to understand that he , he built that church and I 'm led to understand that at the same time he started , he came as a curate to St Matthew 's and then he came to Street into a house and he had a little , he started a little church down there in a private house and then he built the church .