Example sentences of "came [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They came on to the golden sand and stood in silence , winds of light moving over them plainly , despite the brightness of the evening sunshine .
2 Primary Health Care , understood as an approach to health care going beyond the medical model to include the promotive , rehabilitative and educational dimensions of health care in addition to curative/treatment dimensions , came on to the international stage in 1978 at the conference of Alma Ata .
3 Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years .
4 However , setting this aside and taking parent-authorisation at face value , the high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage perceived to be casual or persistent truants .
5 The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows .
6 As the argument was refined in the course of the hearing , it emerged that the rival contentions came down to a narrow but difficult issue .
7 Following these now disregarded signs of past activity along the old path , I traversed the hillside and came down to a crumbling stone sheepfold with the roofless remains of a shepherd 's hut built into one wall .
8 After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside .
9 She says a woman on an earlier expedition had snow blindness and as soon as she came down to a lower altitude , she was put on a drip and recovered in a few days .
10 He came down to the front door with me .
11 Cathery also added : " Lewis and Cannon ( the branch secretary ) came down to the Central Office and I let [ them ] see all the books , cheque book , bank passbook etc. ; in fact all they wanted to see .
12 It all came down to the last throw the lady who came second had three houses on Park Lane and Mayfair but I threw an 11 and sailed right past ! ’
13 Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job .
14 The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair .
15 It was much later , perhaps an hour , wind belting , when Tetsu came along to the 17th .
16 If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement .
17 Apart from these three , reports came in to the Royal Society from more than fifty other vessels , whose log-books provided a valuable source of information , particularly since officers-of-the-watch habitually keep a note of the time at which observations are made .
18 The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B.
19 Nino came through to the third jump off but only one , Germany 's Frank Sloothaak , on the high jump specialist Optiebeurs Golo , could go clear again .
20 She came off to a reasonable round .
21 By the time he came off to a huge ovation , Essex were dawdling along at 99-3 off 36 overs .
22 Only one out of 208 pints served in 104 pubs , clubs and restaurants in Birmingham came up to a full measure , trading standards officers disclosed .
23 A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job .
24 He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground .
25 He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man .
26 She said coolly as they came up to the stuffed spaniel , ‘ What do you call him , that very fierce dog ? ’
27 I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’
28 A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question .
29 About halfway across the Channel a man in a plastic mackintosh came back to a nearby table and announced that the rain had finally stopped — just our luck , he added .
30 She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer .
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