Example sentences of "came to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Mongolia , at last they entered China , and after a few days came to the Great Wall , another of the earth 's wonders . |
| 2 | Fellow aviculturalists ‘ do n't call them twitchers , it 's the ultimate insult , ’ said Yvonne , Harry 's daughter Robin Pickering and Peter Banks from Stanhope were called in , and after much research and consultation they came to the extraordinary conclusion that this was a Glaucous Macaw . |
| 3 | Therefore in the present case the justices came to the correct conclusion . |
| 4 | During the spring the recommendations of the Top Salaries Review Board and the Doctors and Dentists Review Body came to the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | When they came to the two roads , they stopped . |
| 6 | Jane Melvin came to the New Inn at Pembridge in Herefordshire in 1984 , and turned it into one of the most popular country pubs in the county . |
| 7 | In December 1990 it came to the other directors ' knowledge that M and another manager , Elizabeth Melon , the software sales manager , intended to start a new company and to take over the distribution of the Boeing software . |
| 8 | They set to work cutting down trees and brushwood , far and near , to drag up to the terrace , to fill in the ditches — or at least , the two outer ones , for when they came to the inner ones it was promptly demonstrated that they were within range of the defending cannon . |
| 9 | They rode through another crowded court and came to the inner court lined only by chiefs . |
| 10 | Linda Townley , formerly Linda Joyce a lady 's maid to Princess Anne came to the Labour party conference in Blackpool to make a desperate plea on behalf of those unfairly attacked in the press , |
| 11 | They came to the following conclusions : |
| 12 | They then analysed over 800 one-month spreads for 62 months and came to the following conclusions : |
| 13 | The English novelist Kingsley Amis , considering the film and its possible interpretations , came to the following conclusion : ‘ It 's about being bloody frightened of being eaten by a bloody great shark . ’ |
| 14 | Ingrid and other loyal friends spent long hours burning the midnight oil with her when it came to the final typing . |
| 15 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 16 | One actress Lizzie Bancroft came to the final rehearsal with a two week old baby . |
| 17 | Jim Lenehan , assistant manager at the Sheikh 's Kildangan Stud , confirmed that Royal Gait suffered a massive heart attack , and added : ‘ The sad part is that Graham said he had felt as good as ever as they came to the final flight . ’ |
| 18 | Oh So Risky , who ran away with the Triumph Hurdle — the crown for four-year-olds — at the 1991 Festival , came to the final flight in last year 's Champion Hurdle with the race apparently won , and Sheikh Mohammed 's Royal Gait had to bash two others aside to finally get to David Elsworth 's five-year-old in a photo finish . |
| 19 | And as they came to the final furlongs it was Roc de Prince , Laura 's Beau , Sure Metal going for the line and then on the outside , up came New Mill House . |
| 20 | It came to the reverse conclusion so far as the crime of administering a drug for the purpose of obtaining sexual intercourse was concerned and recommended that all sexual acts should be covered . |
| 21 | I had even studied Geology as my science subject and although I was cack-handed and obtuse when it came to the practical side had enjoyed the theory well enough . |
| 22 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 23 | And they still came to the famous dinners at his house , where the food , and the music , and the conversation were the best in London . |
| 24 | And the storm went on and on and on ; when finally relief came to the exhausted crews , it seemed the only recourse was to turn tail and head for home . |
| 25 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 26 | ‘ I had to be in charge , ’ he later said , ‘ when it came to the actual making of the films . |
| 27 | Everyone tried to help , reassuring her that this was a good omen , she would be marvellous when it came to the actual performance , but it was fairly obvious she was in a bad way . |
| 28 | When it came to the actual recording , there was the sound of the pistol shot — followed not by the thump but by Ken wailing as only Kenneth Williams could wail . |
| 29 | Sammy Davis Jnr also came to the fore thanks to Sinatra . |
| 30 | In my judgment , both Potts J. and Phillips J. came to the right conclusions for the right reasons . |