Example sentences of "come [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you 've come to listen to the sean nós ? ’ |
| 2 | In particular , Keyes had come to identify with the Romantic movement , and it was Heath-Stubbs who was able to broaden Keyes 's base by tracing for him the origins of Romanticism in primitive legends through the medieval to the Augustan poets . |
| 3 | The periodic ‘ Fed bashing ’ which one has come to expect of the incumbent political Administrations has again resurfaced . |
| 4 | Choosing the right diet is the key , and to make it easy for you we have devised a three-part series , Slim Plan ( page 81 ) , backed by all the knowledge , research and thorough testing you have come to expect from the Good Housekeeping Institute . |
| 5 | The game is very playable and the graphics are flicker free as we have come to expect from the top shareware authors . |
| 6 | It has been a day which commenced so stunningly with the horse and carriage procession , swept forward with the harmonious , soaring , musical arrangements at the wedding ceremony , and has culminated in the utter perfection of the gourmet dinner , all in keeping with what we have come to expect from the organizational abilities of one of the world 's paragons . |
| 7 | She was not beautiful , and hardly fey as he had come to expect from the fair sex , but there was something undeniably compelling about her . |
| 8 | He had a streak of red paint across the back of his uniform , so one at least had come armed with the essential spray can . |
| 9 | The time has come to leave behind the national humiliation and recriminations that have resulted from sterling 's suspension from the ERM |
| 10 | The Padre was unable to find any word at all ; his eyes had come to rest on the golden letters " Holy Bible " on the back of Fleury 's razor blade . |
| 11 | Men claimed he was a shameless womaniser , but to women he was perfect , as if Wotan had dropped a bucket of pure sex from Valhalla and it had come to rest inside the muscled , blond Adonis . |
| 12 | She said that had been his double and he 'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him . |
| 13 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
| 14 | Life or death has come to depend on the proper functioning or malfunctioning of super-sensitive equipment over a couple of seconds . |
| 15 | The new directly assessed tax had come to stay as the main supplement to the King 's ordinary revenue ; although fifteenths and tenths were generally granted in conjunction with subsidies for the rest of the century , the latter were much more productive . |
| 16 | Yet such criticism and dismay were in themselves testimony to the degree of reliance which the Americans had come to place on the special relationship — especially outside Europe . |
| 17 | It has also come to rely on the part-time staff made available by the Association pour le Fouilles d'Archeologie Nationale , which in turn depends largely on private money , although it is in the charge of the Ministry . |
| 18 | At every stage , the media must insist upon its right to investigate and to print public interest stories ; if it is right in its identification of the public interest , it is unlikely to come to harm in the long run . |
| 19 | Whereas the good introduction impresses , the poor one depresses , conditioning the reader to anticipate inaccuracy , poor understanding , irrelevancy , muddled thinking-all the qualities , in fact , which the experienced examiner has come to associate with the weak or poor response . " |
| 20 | The man would , of course , have come fasting to the first Mass of the day . |
| 21 | Their work points the way to a revision of plate tectonic theory and ideas about mountain building The USGS geologists , Mark Blake , David Howell and David Jones , have identified six distinct ‘ episodes ’ gradually creating present-day California Chunks of land came crashing onto the western side of the continent and spread out before fixing themselves to the existing coastline . |
| 22 | Although all this was entertainingly unpleasant , in Bira the most genuine threat to our lives came disguised in the quietest way , when we broke the cardinal rule of touching an unidentified creature . |
| 23 | She said to Rourke , ‘ You wanted to know if I 'd lent out keys to anyone — the telephone engineer , you said , and the man who came to see to the new extension around the back . ’ |
| 24 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
| 25 | He came to stoop over the trussed man , tested his bonds with a fierce and agonising tug . |
| 26 | And I did n't tell him that he came banging on the bloody door and all that . |
| 27 | Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road . |
| 28 | The Biblical Commission responded with a letter which came to serve as the first part of an encyclical , Divino Afflante Spiritu , published by Pius XII on 30 September 1943 . |
| 29 | Before any more could be said , Stephen came hurrying into the cobbled yard , hand outstretched , his face beaming with pleasure . |
| 30 | the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York |