Example sentences of "come [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visiting pilots had come to ferry back a score of U.S. fighter aircraft flown up from the States as part of the American lend-lease programme . |
| 2 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 3 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 4 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 5 | The firemen who came to put out the fire had a narrow escape when the roof fell in as they were working inside the building . |
| 6 | Sometimes even in fights , throwing stones and other things against the security forces who came to break up the picket lines or arrest the trade union leaders . |
| 7 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 8 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 9 | More generally , any laissez faire connection helps very little in understanding how Darwin came to take up the problems his theorizing was to solve . |
| 10 | At the same time , in some towns at least , bishops came to take over the duties of such late Roman officers as the defensores , who had been expected to defend the weak . |
| 11 | When Jarvis came to take over the house , although a good many people had been inside it and others had lived in it , the chair and the stool were still in the bellringer 's room . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , working class women could still filter out useful information from a visit to a School for Mothers , and as the local authorities increasingly came to take over the Schools and Babies ' Welcomes and turn them into infant welfare centres , so they became more acceptable to working class women . |
| 13 | The usual routine for the Stone family was that Chrissie , and two other mothers , alternated coming to pick up a total of five children every day . |
| 14 | So she 's phoned , and I says , ask them if they 're coming to board up the windows which were boarded when she went in ? |
| 15 | They 're from one of the country Women 's Institutes , and they 're coming to check out the suitability of the bush walk for a much larger party — most of them elderly . |
| 16 | When came to dig out the foundations and like the buildings round the tanks . |
| 17 | When they come to write up the results of their research different anthropologists will , for doctrinal reasons , give very different weight to these two major aspects of the data , but , in the field , the anthropologist must always pay attention to both sides . |
| 18 | Before starting to write , read through the whole of the examination paper and jot down in the margin the names of plaintiffs ( or criminal defendants ) in any relevant cases you remember , the dates of statutes and any other details that are likely to elude you when you come to write out the question . |
| 19 | This way , when you come to cut up the cake every child gets a piece with his or her name on it . |
| 20 | Fred will feel the benefit when he comes to take over the business . ’ |
| 21 | Although strongly influenced by Dicey , the tradition comes to take on a life of its own . |