Example sentences of "he come to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story is , that in bygone days before the advent of the white man , there was a young Siwash Indian whose ardent love of nature made him come to that point of land on the inlet every day to watch the sunset . |
| 2 | By the 1640s , when he came to political prominence , he was a leading member of the Goldsmiths ' Company and a successful banker and financier . |
| 3 | He came to political maturity when the world was wrecked ; he sees himself as a man who can put back together what others have broken . |
| 4 | It was while teaching a form called ‘ the sink ’ — the exam failures and the less bright — that he came to that perception which all good teachers share : to inspire pupils you have first to gain their attention and one of the best ways of doing that is through humour and anecdote . |
| 5 | Continued from previous page Although on screen he came to public notice in The Long Good Friday in 1979 , he has also played in such diverse material as Mona Lisa ( with Liverpool 's Cathy Tyson ) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit . |
| 6 | Mary Benson recalls Orton Chirwa in Britain 40 years ago when he came to this country to protest against imposition of the Central African Federation : ‘ How vividly one recalls Orton , the slight , bespectacled , amused young lawyer who proved to be an articulate , passionate speaker whose wit enlivened public meetings from London to Edinburgh , while Banda , then a GP in Willesden , embarrassed organisers with his tub-thumping rhetoric — Banda the medical doctor , who was to subject Orton and Vera Chirwa to such extremes of suffering , remaining impervious to every appeal and protest on their behalf . |
| 7 | They were moving with me all the time and er , the eldest child was four year 's old when he came to this country and er , two and a half year 's old the girl , younger to him . |
| 8 | He came to this village where there was a festival going on , with everyone taking part in a dance . |
| 9 | He came to this village where there was a festival going on , with everyone taking part in a dance . |
| 10 | He came to this charge after years in Mount Darwin , where the war is going on . |
| 11 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 12 | Well , the angel Gabriel disguised himself as a poor beggar and walked through the forest until he came to this pear tree . |
| 13 | Now I hear some of you saying this : ‘ Jesus saved me from my sins by taking my burdens himself ; he came to this earth to save me and to redeem me . ’ |
| 14 | During the Second World War he came to national notice as chairman of a Senate committee set up to check on war contracts and to prevent war profiteering . |
| 15 | He came to vibrant life , grasping her arms with such force that she cried out . |
| 16 | The closer she moves towards death , the more he comes to passionate life . |