Example sentences of "came [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By demonstrating why workers , soldiers and a minority of peasants came to support the Bolshevik party in 1917 they bring to light the limitations of the party 's popular mandate , and the speed with which that mandate was forfeited . |
| 2 | Each god 's burden came to signify the particular omen of the division of time in question . |
| 3 | Christ himself came preaching the Good News of the Kingdom , describing its nature and calling for a response . |
| 4 | But Europeans increasingly during the I 1980s came to see the global electronics market as offering key advantages to the United States and Japan . |
| 5 | The Doctor who came to see the poor Doc ( a psychoanalyst and neurological specialist ) said that every neurotic case went back to the childish fear of the father . |
| 6 | He chose to ignore the ultimate horror of the looted tomb and inscribed his lines as if all was well : " Aa-Kheper-Re-senb came to see the beautiful temple of King Seneferu . |
| 7 | In time , this economic function may have grown strong enough to draw yet more people to it , so that it came to overshadow the original cause for the settlement 's foundation . |
| 8 | His way was blocked by the Ambassador and Culliman , talking politely about gardens as they came through' the french windows . |
| 9 | The two sequences testify to the importance which a monastic community attached to its corporate ideal , and the steps by which a final and fatal resort to forgery came to appear the only path to a just solution . |
| 10 | This conception , however , dissolved in his mind as , towards the end of his life , he came to accept the prevalent belief in the everyday occurrence of miracles . |
| 11 | He came to know the changing seasons , morning and evening , different winds , waters and mists , shade and silence , and the voices of nature . |
| 12 | The transference of Ernest Bevin direct from the leadership of Britain 's largest trade union to the Ministry of Labour , symbolized Labour 's role in the new order — not least because Bevin 's control over the allocation of manpower came to displace the traditional operations of the Treasury , as the lynch-pin of Government economic management . |
| 13 | The routine at this stage never varied It was unlikely that he would find it necessary to leave his office until the time came to visit the missing girl 's parents and in the meantime he was capable of giving the usual orders while half asleep — which he very nearly was , having been called from his bed not much after five in the morning . |
| 14 | The anniversaries , called ‘ birthdays ’ , of the martyrs were carefully remembered , and so came to create the earliest church calendars ( so that the historian can know on what day of what month a martyr died , but not necessarily in what year , that being of no liturgical significance ) . |
| 15 | In the end it was overtaken by the advent of the ‘ New Draperies ’ , but the downward trend had set in well before the establishment of these in East Anglia ; indeed , in the event they came to replace the contracting broadcloth manufacture which , even as early as 1523 , had shown signs of instability : it was symptomatic of recession that no less than 35 per cent of Spring 's liquid assets had to be written off as irrecoverable , and the winding up of his affairs can not but have dealt its prosperity a mortal blow . |
| 16 | Both continued to develop ; but it was the commemoration of the martyrs that came to swamp the Christian calendar during the fourth century , filling the interstices left in it . |
| 17 | Many famous people came to view the grandiose exhibition : the Prince of Wales judged it to be ‘ an ornament to the nation ’ , as indeed it was to become . |
| 18 | For all the pioneer ideology of frontier self-sufficiency which came to surround the early Americans , increasing in both numbers and wealth , they provided a market for consumer goods by 1740 which was not unlike that which had emerged in England itself . |
| 19 | But she says , ‘ You came to win the Open Championship , Arnold . |
| 20 | And while he was resting , over the hill came flying the dark Swift , screaming as he went , " News ! |
| 21 | After the opening of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway in 1859 , Davies constructed more railways including many which came to form the 1864 alliance of the Cambrian Railways , namely the Oswestry and Newtown Railway and the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway . |
| 22 | Charles Keating Jr , the multi-millionaire whose speculative activities and subsequent financial collapse came to epitomize the massive failure of the savings and loan industry , was convicted on 17 counts of securities fraud by a California Superior Court on Dec. 4 . |
| 23 | When the children of Israel were camped in Moab near Jericho , many of them came to worship the local god , Bael-Poor , and there was some mixing with the Moabites . |
| 24 | So came to do the other side , went to the same routine the nipple snapped off . |
| 25 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Empleomani/1a ’ or the ‘ rage for office ’ as Dyson translates it ( 1980 : 61 ) , together with clientelistic politics based on ‘ enchufe ’ or personal contacts , came to characterize the public administration . |
| 27 | Then there arrived a rainbow of stronger colours and she could have wept for its strident spectrum that came to disturb the pastel gavotte of suns , but it had a strength she could not resist and a hundred thousand pullulating meanings that tugged at her . |
| 28 | And from somewhere came drifting the lazy smell of woodsmoke . |
| 29 | We have found no documentary evidence at all to explain how such a large body of men came to leave the 5 Corps area , eventually to turn up in northern Italy . |
| 30 | But when he and Slater came to devise the dramatic structure of the libretto , something different resulted . |