Example sentences of "come to the [noun pl] ' " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ironically , the quest for profits may ultimately come to the dolphins ' rescue . |