Example sentences of "[noun prp] [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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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