Example sentences of "[det] [noun] come to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gossip in the quarter reported that Rosalie 's son had overheard that Simone had decided to ‘ have ’ Modi for a bet and , when that story came to Modi 's ears , he turned from her disgusted . |
| 2 | After that Travis came to supper regularly . |
| 3 | It is because of the meticulously kept notes of Mr Bridges that much of this story comes to light at all . |
| 4 | ‘ The Face never wanted this case to come to court and every effort was made to settle the dispute , without success . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The Face never wanted this case to come to court and every effort was made to settle the dispute , without success . ’ |
| 6 | It is perhaps because of the unpredictable nature of the outcome that few cases come to court on ultra vires conditions . |
| 7 | It 's true to say that very few cases come to court martial . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've paid all this money to come to Hawaii and all you can do is screw around . ’ |
| 9 | Before the four-cylinder half of this plan came to fruition , Rudd , now engineering director , hired a new recruit from Jaguar — ‘ a bright young man called Mike Kimberley ’ — to head up vehicle engineering and lead the team that put the existing twin-cam engine in the Europa . |
| 10 | This plan came to grief , however , when Waters , in an attempt to establish friendly relations , gave a prospective producer a copy of one of his books , which showed the idiosyncratic director palling up with one of Charles Manson 's gang — a gesture which was in even worse taste than it might sound , as the producer proved to have been a good friend of one of the gang 's victims . |
| 11 | However , this plan came to grief following the Battle of Worcester , on September 3rd. 1651 , in which the Scottish army was thoroughly defeated by Cromwell 's troops . |
| 12 | Van Gelder had just left the bridge when another loudspeaker came to life , the repeated double buzzer identifying it as the radio-room . |
| 13 | This book is about that conflict of values , the efforts made in the last few years to come to terms with that conflict , and its implication for one of the major issues of our time — the reshaping of our farm policy , which , with the single aim of increased food production , has transformed the countryside over the last forty years in what is perhaps the greatest agricultural revolution since the settling of England began . |
| 14 | Some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him , ‘ You must get out of here and go somewhere else , because Herod wants to kill you ’ ( Luke 13:31 ) . |
| 15 | Why does this theory come to life while other theories exist only in the minds of their inventors ? |
| 16 | It is difficult for some people to come to grips with the fact that children do not have a higher priority than partners , because some people feel that the purpose of marriage is producing children and therefore it should be the highest priority . |
| 17 | This invention came to Obod , near Cetinje , from Italy in 1493 , only twenty-five years after the death of Gutenberg and within the lifetime of Caxton . |
| 18 | The jury at Bristol Crown Court were told that when details of this attack came to light , a second girl had accused the boy of raping her two years earlier , when she was thirteen . |
| 19 | The jury at Bristol Crown Court were told that when details of this attack came to light , a second girl had accused the boy of raping her two years earlier , when she was thirteen . |
| 20 | Since this Government came to power , while the nation 's trade has slipped heavily into deficit , Scotch Whisky export earnings have risen from around £702 million in 1979 to £1,958 million in 1992 . |
| 21 | That means that since this Government came to power , up to the end of March 1990 , a total of 117,000 new homes were built . |
| 22 | Some vandals came to school and they seemed pretty rough |
| 23 | It is rare indeed that a composer of this stature comes to light , uneven though she is , and rarer yet for any composer to be served with performances of this quality . |
| 24 | So just when some some bod comes to school and opens your mouth and says ooh , this looks interesting , there 's not much point because our own dentist knows about it . |
| 25 | Another image came to mind , strangely tormenting . |
| 26 | Within this simplified conception , the role of linguistic factors in education is easy to define : some children come to school equipped with an elaborated code which enables them to be successful in class because they can use it to analyse , describe , speculate , and so on ; other children fail , because they do not possess this code . |
| 27 | ‘ Daddy saw some gipsies coming to camp on his land , ’ she explained as she came up , ‘ and he wo n't let them . |
| 28 | since this lot came to power , is forcing people to make a decision as to whether they should get a prescription or whether they should not . |
| 29 | The vehemence and the unanimity with which this judgment has now been condemned indicates , for the first time , a wish in this country to come to terms with Vichy . |
| 30 | Numerous delays prevented this venture coming to fruition within the ‘ initial responses ’ period . |