Example sentences of "[noun] had come [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer , a painter named Johannes Meintjies had come to visit 71 Bree Street . |
| 2 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 3 | Such a miracle would have dwarfed all miracles recorded in the Bible , and Frederick Temple , who in 1896 became Archbishop of Canterbury , pointed out in his Bampton Lecture of 1884 that neither Darwin nor Huxley had claimed to know how life had come to animate inert matter . |
| 4 | This is slightly curious , because a ‘ law ’ in science had come to mean some relationship which had been derived from experiment . |
| 5 | Some Labour politicians continued to cling to their previous peace strategies but by the late 1930s the majority had come to accept that war was inevitable — a view confirmed by the events in Czechoslovakia , Austria and Poland which preceded the outbreak of the European war . |
| 6 | By 1990 Baghdad had come to perceive these calculations as imperilled by two GCC states , Kuwait and the UAE . |