Example sentences of "come [adv] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had come so close to death . |
| 2 | He was for ‘ a delicious diligent indolence ’ , for a passiveness allowing the intellectual powers to come very gradually to ripeness . |
| 3 | This sympathy may have explained the level of applause she got at the end of her opening song , so that she came more confidently to centre for her second . |
| 4 | The result is that the synagogue , which three years ago came perilously close to closure , is now busy every week . |
| 5 | But beneath it she understood , accepted , found it far easier to hate him , when he fought her back to the bed , than to ignore him ; the bitings and scratchings of anger coming near enough to passion so that when he entered her again she found it possible , in her loathing , her detestation , her bitter resentment , to wrap her own strong , hard limbs about him in a grip designed to wound and crush him but which could also excite . |
| 6 | To make the book come even more to life , the author introduces hypothetical characters , the Sportsman , the Visitor and the Engineer , and it does not take much imagination to think of their behaviour in driving or road design . |
| 7 | Although yesterday 's increase in rates intensified fears that the economy could come perilously close to recession next year , the instant judgement of most economists was that the worst would be avoided . |
| 8 | Would n't it come perilously close to desecration ? |
| 9 | Once you have eliminated superfluous items in this way , you can prioritize the rest of your storage so that the most useful items come most readily to hand . |
| 10 | Unknown to most people , he had also driven a Formula Two racing car belonging to world-champion racing driver Graham Hill around the track at Thruxton — and come perilously close to disaster . |
| 11 | We should n't leave them lying around the house like a tube of vitamin C. If the words come too easily to hand , we 'll use them without thought ; we wo n't be able to resist . |
| 12 | But if by eclecticism is meant the random and expedient use of whatever technique comes most readily to hand , then it has no merit whatever . |