Example sentences of "come [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair . |
| 32 | It was much later , perhaps an hour , wind belting , when Tetsu came along to the 17th . |
| 33 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 34 | Apart from these three , reports came in to the Royal Society from more than fifty other vessels , whose log-books provided a valuable source of information , particularly since officers-of-the-watch habitually keep a note of the time at which observations are made . |
| 35 | The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B. |
| 36 | Nino came through to the third jump off but only one , Germany 's Frank Sloothaak , on the high jump specialist Optiebeurs Golo , could go clear again . |
| 37 | A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job . |
| 38 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 39 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 40 | She said coolly as they came up to the stuffed spaniel , ‘ What do you call him , that very fierce dog ? ’ |
| 41 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 42 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 43 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
| 44 | Time and time again discussions about tears came back to the central theme of the wish to be cared for-not all the time , the women with whom I talked were quite clear about that . |
| 45 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
| 46 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 47 | Amid the confusion ( Vaux village is said to have changed hands thirteen times during the March fighting ) , word came back to the German Divisional Commander , bearing the imaginative name of von Guretzky-Cornitz , that the fort had actually been taken . |
| 48 | But the story of the Gesta did not end in 1109. just as later monks came back to the Flemish comital genealogies to keep them up to date and to add new material , so the Gesta attracted amplification . |
| 49 | It came back to the same thing . |
| 50 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
| 51 | Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ? |
| 52 | I came back to the beautiful beach house from shopping . |
| 53 | Sounds came back to the watching eagles . |
| 54 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 55 | Rachaela did as she was told , and came out to the examining table , very white with something on it like a large paper towel . |
| 56 | Theodora circled the house in the direction of the arrow and came round to the back door . |
| 57 | In effect this has meant approximately 400,000 new and inexperienced customers coming on to the overseas market each year , and it is this that has kept the traditional inclusive tour package alive . |
| 58 | There will thus be an increase in the supply of pounds coming on to the foreign exchange market . |
| 59 | This will therefore lead to an increase in the supply of pounds coming on to the foreign exchange markets . |
| 60 | Andy 's coming along to the next C S M T |