Example sentences of "[vb past] come to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their on-off relationship , which seemed to come to a sudden end two years ago , was re-kindled earlier this year with a romantic holiday to Mauritius . |
| 2 | And at the last him happened to come to a fair green way . |
| 3 | And what more could Miss Waters do but affirm that if one could not perform one 's Christian duty without being treated as a busybody then the parish had come to a sorry pass ? |
| 4 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 5 | Separation and divorce became inevitable ; it was a ‘ good divorce — non-violent and non-tumultuous … we had come to a real separating of the ways and it was obvious there was only one thing to do and we did it very simply . ’ |
| 6 | If she had come to a pitiful and desperate end , this woman for one would not be sorry . |
| 7 | On the ground , in accordance with the order , 5 Corps had already entered negotiations with the Soviet authorities to take them over , and had come to a final decision ( reported to Eighth Army ) on which groups were to go . |
| 8 | For a communist militant who had devoted his life to the struggle against fascist barbarism and oppression , the revelation that the Soviet communist state had come to a private agreement with Hitler 's Nazi Germany was a mortal body blow . |
| 9 | By 1982 ( the EC 's 25th birthday ) the momentum for a Single European Market had come to a virtual standstill . |
| 10 | I know this caused an immense amount of debate at Personnel sub-committee , and I thought that Personnel sub-committee had come to a reasonable solution . |
| 11 | The regime was n't defeated although it had come to a dead end and the liberation movement did not conquer the situation although they made government impossible . |
| 12 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 13 | But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ The whole thing had come to a horrible head and a lot of hurt has been suffered by both of them throughout the summer . |
| 15 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |