Example sentences of "come to the [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 In 1933 it first appeared in its present format , accompanied by the slim one-volume Supplement which added quotations , words , and meanings that had come to the editors ' attention after the publication of the relevant part of the Dictionary .
2 He had come to the comrades ' attention when he wrote an article in the journal of the Right-On wing of the Communist Party , Marxism Today , shortly before the £750 GLC pre-feasibility study was completed in November 1984 .
3 Aunt Margaret came to the girls ' bedroom and unhandily undressed Victoria , although she could perfectly well undress herself .
4 Six minutes from the end Murdoch again came to the visitors ' rescue when he dived to block a shot from Hateley .
5 Many came to the women 's movement from backgrounds where the state was viewed as an instrument for enacting their own class specific demands .
6 The Fijian captain , Waisale Serevi — whose side defeated the district of Suva 26-0 in the final — came to the Scots ' hotel to say ‘ thank-you , good-bye and good-luck , ’ to the teams who had ventured to Fiji 's first such tournament .
7 Erm tt er when it came to the children erm and he did n't know the date of birth erm you should 've at least got the ages of them
8 I think but continuing down the corridor erm which was all the Education Department , you came to the typists ' room right at the bottom of the corridor on the left
9 The once-in-a-while reward is often used to deal with disobedience about coming to the parents ' bed in the middle of the night .
10 And all single or childless women between twenty and thirty were liable to be directed to essential war work of some kind as we can see here erm com coming to the factories erm there 's a woman there driving a tank another one on er a gu a gun sight .
11 When the signal for launching crusade finally did come to the Fists ' astropaths , Battle Brothers would depart in warpships from the jutting sword-deck — to return , perhaps years later in realspace time , as heroes … and some as cripples needing reconstruction by the experts in the Apothacarion … and others as honoured corpses , or perhaps only in the form of retrieved progenoid glands from which new Marines would be kindled .
12 Ironically , the quest for profits may ultimately come to the dolphins ' rescue .
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