Example sentences of "came [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 2 | He came to sit on the floor near her chair with his elbows on his knees , hands linked . |
| 3 | Sometimes famous musicians came to perform in the Lake District . |
| 4 | I was thankful when the time came to go to the City Division H.Q. |
| 5 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 6 | One day Leo came to see to the plants in the conservatory . |
| 7 | On Sunday mornings the vicar of the neighbouring parish came to preach in the church , and the servants were enabled to attend , heating the ovens for dinner before they went out . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , there is not enough evidence to make a coherent account of how Carthaginians and Greeks saw each other in the third and second centuries B.C. and how Rome came to profit from the situation — not least by the importation of an African slave who became the most accomplished of the Hellenized dramatists of Latin literature , Terence . |
| 9 | The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment . |
| 10 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |
| 11 | Grandfather James Hauxwell met Grandmother Elizabeth , who was a Bayles , when he came to work on the building of the reservoir , just below Low Birk Hatt . |
| 12 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 13 | This study highlighted a number of problems that family farmers faced when a member of the family came to work on the farm so perhaps it was an opportune time to look at this in more detail . |
| 14 | Martha had been attracted to Bob Lamb since the shepherd first came to work on the farm the previous November . |
| 15 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 16 | Perhaps he was more specific , speaking of what he usually saw when he came to work in the morning — Eva in her blue silk pyjamas and red robe shouting and laughing and giving orders to me for breakfast , and reading aloud from the papers . |
| 17 | As with the word ‘ church ’ , the synagogue came to stand for the building as well as the people meeting there . |
| 18 | Cathy was in the little office and he came to stand in the doorway . |
| 19 | At any rate she came to stand by the bureau . |
| 20 | Riders broke away from the group and came to stand near the fence , waiting almost motionless in the still morning , while the horses shook their heads , grass foam dripping from bits , stamping impatiently . |
| 21 | All Félix 's guests who came to dine at the château paid her extravagant compliments . |
| 22 | He came to squat by the fire , holding out his hands to the warmth . |
| 23 | Slowly they came to conform to the Catholicism of their Italian subjects . |
| 24 | Only when Marcella had relaxed sufficiently to sit back in her chair and release her tight hold on the dog did he risk intervention : ‘ We came to talk about the Garlands . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It would be … well , interesting to know just how you came to hear about the infant 's birth , and why you felt this birth was … well , interesting . |
| 26 | It was through this work that I came to hear of the case of Dr Ron Carrington , a 35-year-old psychiatrist . |
| 27 | More significant , however , was the influence which the English settlement in Normandy came to exercise upon the proceedings . |
| 28 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
| 29 | When fire protection officials came to look at the dump they discovered mattresses deposited by a bed company , furniture and even potentially hazardous oil cans . |
| 30 | When he came to look at the poem Miss Gilberd had intended to teach , Toby rather wondered at her judgement . |