Example sentences of "come [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 2 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 3 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 4 | More generally , any laissez faire connection helps very little in understanding how Darwin came to take up the problems his theorizing was to solve . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | When came to dig out the foundations and like the buildings round the tanks . |
| 9 | 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 . |