Example sentences of "came [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Biblical Commission responded with a letter which came to serve as the first part of an encyclical , Divino Afflante Spiritu , published by Pius XII on 30 September 1943 . |
| 2 | The apparent ineffectiveness of naval forces , particularly when contrasted with the vital role which they came to play in the sixteenth century , may have turned students against the subject . |
| 3 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 4 | The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open . |
| 5 | Their voices faded into the background as Isabel 's eyes came to rest on the third horse . |
| 6 | So Spurs getting the lead they so dearly wanted after all their upsets of recent weeks , but back came United in the eighteenth minute , Les Phillips sent Nogan free over the halfway line and Eric Torsville had to race from his line to hack the ball into the stand . |
| 7 | After two decades cotton came to account for a third of the increase in manufactured exports from 1784 – 6 to 1794 – 6 . |
| 8 | Suddenly , I was on the top of one wave as she came thundering over the next . |
| 9 | This came to dominate in the last years of the century . |