Example sentences of "come to the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 2 | Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses . |
| 3 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 4 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 5 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 6 | But if the worst really came to the worst in Japan , the resulting mess could not simply be welcomed as come-uppance . |
| 7 | He was going like a winner when he came to the third from home , fell and broke a leg . |
| 8 | Gradually the port wing tip fell on the ground and we came to the gentlest of stops some 70/80 yards from the engineering wing perimeter . |
| 9 | Let's come to the Gothic in Jane Eyre , in why , in a sense , i it 's in our reading lis it 's on our reading list this term . |
| 10 | And then , as you would surely expect if not demand , we come to the greatest of all operettas , ‘ Die Fledermaus ’ ( 1874 ) — starting with the famous overture , and going on to excerpts from the party scene of Act II . |
| 11 | Here we come to the first of many possible variations , in that this change of gain may be continuously variable or switched between two different values . |
| 12 | We now come to the first of the simpler tests for irreducibility over Q[x] . |
| 13 | The last beach along here before you come to the first of the rocky headlands that are so prettily characteristic of Biarritz 's coastline , is called the Chambre d'Amour or Chamber of Love , after an old depression in the sand where two lovers are said to have put themselves well and truly on the map by being surprised in their amours by the Atlantic tide . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd rolled around a bit with Angela Brickell , ’ I said , ‘ and that 's where we come to the biggest Against . ’ |
| 15 | Do that , do that on sixty five divide by one hundred and eighty , multiply by the pi on your calculator , just one second Robin , yeah , it 's usually , it 's just theatrical , you should get , yeah , so you get the same answer , so you can either work it on ratings or you can write it like that , you could 've actually left it like that , if you come to the third by , you put thirteen over what is it ? eh |
| 16 | And it comes to the first of August , and Graham gets his car , his new X J S , and I get my new Lada , and we 've been out at midnight doing all this , but we come to the branch in the morning , and he parks his X J S there , and I park my Lada next to it . |
| 17 | Now in sporting legend the All Blacks take some beating … but when it comes to the greatest in any sport … there 's just one name … that 's Muhammed Ali … he 's over here at the moment and has made a surprise call on an Oxfordshire man reckoned to be his number one fan . |
| 18 | But if the worst comes to the worst for Princess Di , money wo n't be a problem . |
| 19 | If the worst comes to the worst in the war , he 'll leave us all in the mess and put a bullet through his head . |
| 20 | If the worst comes to the worst in the war , he 'll leave us all in the mess and put a bullet through his head ! |