Example sentences of "[verb] come [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The second psychoanalytic message that has come through to the public is its preoccupation with sex . |
2 | ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’ |
3 | Top flight football should have come back to The Valley . |
4 | We 've come down to the wine |
5 | It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold . |
6 | In common with some other contributors to Essays in Criticism he had come around to the view that the object of English should be to develop in students a " trained mind " rather than to produce " literary critics " or even " good readers " . |
7 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
8 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
9 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
10 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
11 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
12 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |
13 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
14 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
15 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
16 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
17 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |
18 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
19 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
20 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
21 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
22 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
23 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
24 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
25 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
26 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
27 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
28 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
29 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
30 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |