Example sentences of "a [noun] come to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LAST week , a case came to court in which a mentally unstable man was convicted of stabbing three policewomen and one policeman in a shopping centre . |
| 2 | A case comes to hand of two children , a boy of 8 years and a 10-year-old girl , who broke into their local school and ‘ then completely wrecked the school furnishings ’ , and this was not the only instance of vandalism and arson in schools . |
| 3 | If a status quo is preserved , Chelmsford seem sure to struggle in the new eight-team Premier League unless a number of quality players show a willingness to come to Essex . |
| 4 | It was a difficult move , he admits , not because he did not want to leave Scotland ‘ if you 're happy , it does n't matter where you are , and if you 're unhappy it does n't matter where you are ’ — but because ‘ a Scotsman coming to London to run the national firm is n't everybody 's cup of tea ’ . |
| 5 | Secondly , he ignored folk memory of the English and the noble Scottish and their depredations : à propos , a story came to light much later , and recurs in local annals and in the works of many Johnsonian students |
| 6 | The Colonel was not normally one whose nerve or self-confidence could be shaken by a comrade 's torment — he had seen too much and , besides , a soldier in the field made his own luck — but sitting now in the darkness , hardly aware of the familiar sounds of a barracks coming to life , the hollow ring of that dead voice seemed to re-echo in his ears . |
| 7 | When she learned there was a lady coming to lunch she had laid an extremely pretty table , with Hungarian embroidered table linen , the best glasses and a delicate posy of snowdrops and violets . |
| 8 | When a child comes to Cizek for the first time , Cizek gives him materials , and the child draws what he likes . |
| 9 | the only slight exception is ‘ Marina ’ , which deals with a girl coming to terms with her father 's redundancy , and his setting up a new business . |
| 10 | That is to say , if a person came to blows with another , the shaikhs negotiated peace to contain and settle the dispute , to protect the interests of members of their lineage who were not fighting . |
| 11 | So he invited her sent her a ticket to come to America for a year in nineteen three . |
| 12 | He had been placed at the head of the table , a Solomon come to judgement , but a far from happy one . |
| 13 | A policeman came to Beattie 's cell after teatime and said that he had a visitor . |
| 14 | This wild and wayward child of the Prophets — ‘ a Daniel come to Judgment ’ — needed the thick padded hide of the antediluvian monster , whose maw he had so precipitately fled from . |
| 15 | When a circus comes to town they send in the stars … so who better than Desert Orchid to lead the festival parade into Cheltenham … |
| 16 | It says erm The theme is an urgently felt personal one , an exploration of how a woman comes to maturity in the world of the writer 's youth . |
| 17 | ‘ You think I ca n't get a woman to come to bed with me without offering her bribes ? |
| 18 | Well a biddy ago now , a Nigerian came to Edinburgh , a student , went to the regular places . |
| 19 | With the sun slanting through the window , giving your hair a reddish glow and shadowing your face , you could be a Reubens come to life , or maybe a Van Dyck . |
| 20 | But at least the food is there in a crisis — and is also there ready and waiting in the event that a government comes to power which is serious about getting food through to the poorest . |
| 21 | In fact , Flaherty thought it was a better idea than invoking the Draoicht Suan until it was explained to him that unless Pumlumon did invoke it , they would all of them be roasting on spits in the Gruagach 's sculleries before the night was out , to which he said that giants had always been partial to roast Gnome and he had always thought it was a mistake to come to Tara in the first place . |
| 22 | It was one hell of a thing to come to terms with . ’ |
| 23 | Maria Luisa had a lot to come to terms with — ’ |
| 24 | They have a lot to come to terms with , ’ he told her desolately . |
| 25 | They had a lot to come to grips with . |
| 26 | ‘ Is n't he taking a bit of a risk coming to Germany ? |
| 27 | Charitably , you might say they represent the struggle of a generation to come to terms with a responsibility and authority they would once have rejected . |
| 28 | There was a dentist came to school , remember ? |
| 29 | For I remember us doing a flipping er a family came to Wyre once and we were on the same old coble we were er doing the flipping and we thought we had nothing to do but take the rope off their heads and push them over the side of the coble onto the side of the small jetty . |
| 30 | ‘ Unfortunately Paul … did n't come back ’ Brian Pendreigh met a family coming to terms with murder |