Example sentences of "come [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Alice said , " I have come to report on an agreed squat — you know , short-term housing — surely you know … " |
2 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
3 | ‘ And you 've come to listen to the sean nós ? ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | And No. 6 displays both the breath-taking pianism we have now come to expect with a compositional skill to which one can only take one 's hat off . |
6 | The periodic ‘ Fed bashing ’ which one has come to expect of the incumbent political Administrations has again resurfaced . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | The game is very playable and the graphics are flicker free as we have come to expect from the top shareware authors . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Englishness , as a sense of racial or spiritual identity , had come to function as a stabilizing force within the field of professional English studies , rather than providing the authority for a programme of cultural intervention . |
12 | You 've come to hear about a far yester-year and the life of Marie Grubbe , if I 'm not mistaken ! ’ |
13 | The time has come to leave behind the national humiliation and recriminations that have resulted from sterling 's suspension from the ERM |
14 | Those which happen to come to rest in a non-absorbing direction will absorb no more photons , and will thereafter stay put . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Melanie had been told they had come to live in a great city but found herself again in a village , a grey one . |
19 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
20 | Life or death has come to depend on the proper functioning or malfunctioning of super-sensitive equipment over a couple of seconds . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Pluvial and arid periods had always alternated but at some point the latter must have come to dominate in a prolonged drought . |
26 | 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 . " |
27 | This tax invoice now assumes many of the characteristics we have come to associate with an internal VAT invoice , for not only will it show the customer 's VAT number , it will also be used by the UK acquirer of goods from within the EC as evidence to recover acquisition tax . |
28 | 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 . ’ |
29 | He came to stoop over the trussed man , tested his bonds with a fierce and agonising tug . |
30 | Maxie Carlo came to work in a yellow plaid suit . |