Example sentences of "he come [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This for him came to symbolize the futility of the war , which seemed to be fought for no discernible purpose , between opponents whose essential common humanity was denied by the mass slaughter . |
| 2 | He came to save the world in nineteen eighteen , but he got crucified by Clements or Lloyd George . |
| 3 | The special relationship Finniston forged between top management and the work-force at British Steel is epitomised by the fact that he was given farewell parties by each of the seven major steelworks when he came to leave the corporation at the end of ten years . |
| 4 | He came to regret the destruction for which he had been responsible in the name of church restoration under the unenlightened rules prevailing at the time , and in 1881 he joined the recently formed Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , for which he worked quietly but assiduously into old age . |
| 5 | When he came to serve the Parliament , Charles I thought that he was as great a monopolist as those arraigned . |
| 6 | Because of this experience he came to champion the cause of psychiatry and of a high-minded version of socialism . |
| 7 | When he came to employ the locals as models he hit bad luck . |
| 8 | Only once , after the war in La Scala , but he came to conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and I prepared the orchestra for those concerts . |
| 9 | Ceauşescu was amused by this story , particularly by his own interpreter 's stuttering as he came to translate the punchline . |
| 10 | He was watching Charles closely , as if afraid that he would not be believed , when he came to describe the meeting with Maureen O'Duffy and what she had told them during the drive down the mountain . |
| 11 | That fire man has he came to do the gas fire yet then ? |
| 12 | He came to spend the night , by agreement , twice a week and she saw him every day but there was no denying that he seemed a visitor and never a member of her household . |
| 13 | I said there was to be a sale , but I would ask the solicitor ; and afterwards , when he came to take the barometer away , he took it down from the wall very , very gently . |
| 14 | As the struggle progressed he came to see the inadequacies of the term and realized that it was too constricted in its meaning and gave rise to confusion and misunderstanding . |
| 15 | And looking back on his emergence from absolute idealism , he says of himself that he came to hate the stuffiness of supposing that space and time were only in the mind . |
| 16 | Later he came to think the death instinct was more important . ’ |
| 17 | The poem is some 5500 tines long , but the first 2000 are Hoccleve 's personal introduction , purporting to explain how he came to write the rest . |
| 18 | Yet when he came to write the chapters on earthquakes and volcanos in Madam How and Lady Why ( 1869 ) , he could not dismiss from his mind the notion that , underlying the scientific explanation of how these disasters occurred , God must have had a reason for permitting them . |
| 19 | Birth of a legend Author Jack Higgins , right , tells how he came to write The Eagle Has Landed |
| 20 | He had an engaging manner , a valuable asset when he came to write the diary column . |
| 21 | Tennyson explaining how he came to write the Idylls of the King is another . |
| 22 | There he came to know the painters , Mark Gertler , D. G. Bomberg , W. P. Roberts , C. R. W. Nevinson , and ( Sir ) Stanley Spencer [ qq.v. ] , but increasingly found art and poetry incompatible and he himself was drawn towards poems , ten of which were privately printed as a pamphlet , Night and Day , in 1912 . |
| 23 | He came to understand the need to settle for half a loaf rather than nothing at all ; he recognized the need to negotiate with legislators while he also discovered how to bring them into line by going over their heads to the people . |
| 24 | I see when he come to pay the bill . |
| 25 | Just as speeches by ministers made in association with the passage of an Act of Parliament are of little or no interest to a judge when he comes to interpret the law , so it is highly unlikely , though the matter has yet fully to be put to the test , that the Court of Justice will take much notice of intergovernmental pronouncements or agreements . |