Example sentences of "come [to-vb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Museum of Transport was pleased with the result and now knows where to come to drive out other pests and steer clear of further trouble . |
| 2 | In the eighth century , as the Franks had imposed their domination over those they called " subject peoples " , Frankish kings had come to rule over many regna , not only far west as well as east of the Rhine , but beyond the Alps and beyond the Pyrenees . |
| 3 | By the time one comes to that opinion the immediate dramatic contexts of the poem — leaving Bag End , leaving the Shire — have not been dropped , any more than ‘ the Road ’ has lost its obvious literal quality , but they have come to seem only particular instances of a much more general truth . |
| 4 | In this uninterrupted narrative of rowdyism and mischief running through the writings of these Christian youth workers in the 1920s and 1930s , it is not only the behaviour itself that is difficult to reconcile with the nostalgia which has come to settle around postwar perceptions of pre-war social realities . |
| 5 | It was a considerable while before I came to know more Tory politicians and acted as an adviser , not to the party , but to a great many Tories . |
| 6 | Everything was perfect except that when I came to train experimentally naive monkeys , I discovered that they did not like peanuts . |
| 7 | The Society came to receive quite substantial funding from the Kaiser from 1888–1910 . |
| 8 | Both came to lead theoretically revolutionary parties , which they staffed at the higher levels with relatives or friends from their home region . |
| 9 | ‘ She came to pick up some papers she sent to Dr Puddephat , and she needs them at once . |
| 10 | When I first came to live here this room ran through to the back of the house , but my husband put up a partition , so we have a small room at the back where we can have our meals . |
| 11 | Even her accent would n't give her away ; all kinds of nationalities came to take up casual work in the restaurants and hotels . |
| 12 | And when the vet came to take out Little Chef 's stitches , it was Ricky who held the wildly trembling dog in his arms . |
| 13 | Then Ayling 's housekeeper came to ask how many people there would be for lunch and Rain declined an invitation to stay . |
| 14 | If you 're coming to work here full time , you 're bloody well going to join the Pony Club . ’ |
| 15 | The common objective behind all three projects is to analyse how changes in the society as a whole have a different impact in different areas , such that the same process may come to have very different consequences according to local-level variations . |
| 16 | In this research , the investigator plans to study the possibility that adults on occasion expect young children to behave as if they already have an accurate conception of the process of communication , and that as a result of being expected to behave in this more mature way they come to realise why that behaviour is appropriate . |
| 17 | From this kind of data Maltz and Borker conclude that the sexes come to have very different ideas of what constitutes ordinary friendly conversation . |