Example sentences of "came [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 2 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 3 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 4 | The firemen who came to put out the fire had a narrow escape when the roof fell in as they were working inside the building . |
| 5 | Sometimes even in fights , throwing stones and other things against the security forces who came to break up the picket lines or arrest the trade union leaders . |
| 6 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 7 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 8 | More generally , any laissez faire connection helps very little in understanding how Darwin came to take up the problems his theorizing was to solve . |
| 9 | At the same time , in some towns at least , bishops came to take over the duties of such late Roman officers as the defensores , who had been expected to defend the weak . |
| 10 | When Jarvis came to take over the house , although a good many people had been inside it and others had lived in it , the chair and the stool were still in the bellringer 's room . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , working class women could still filter out useful information from a visit to a School for Mothers , and as the local authorities increasingly came to take over the Schools and Babies ' Welcomes and turn them into infant welfare centres , so they became more acceptable to working class women . |