Example sentences of "[vb past] come [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My dreams of training an owl had come to a standstill with Barny , and then another standstill when I could n't find a bird to buy . |
| 32 | We might bc excused for considering that as far as the 18th century was concerned , mining in the Coniston Fells had come to a standstill , and indeed it might have , but negotiations were still being carried out . |
| 33 | Normally there was a background hum of noise , but now it was as though the entire city had come to a standstill , halted and muffled beneath a thick , enveloping blanket of fog . |
| 34 | In the moments immediately following the arm injury to Craig Chalmers in Saturday 's international match at Twickenham ( see picture below ) , Dewi Morris summoned assistance from the touchline even before play had come to a standstill , while another England player also paid more attention to Chalmers than to the ball . |
| 35 | The carriage had come to a standstill |
| 36 | In particular , it appears there was a specific leader at Colossae who had come to a position of authority . |
| 37 | ‘ You can open your eyes now , ’ the Bookman told him when they had come to a stop . |
| 38 | The BMW had come to a stop and the boy was climbing out , his Molotov cocktail now lit and ready . |
| 39 | As he stared at her he knew that he had come to a crossroads , that if he gave in to her now he 'd have to give into her again and again and again . |
| 40 | They had come to a bridge . |
| 41 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 42 | She ‘ knew ’ that ‘ she had come to a place at the end of the world ’ , a backwater where there was no action at all . |
| 43 | When nothing happened , and he realised that he had come to a place without facilities , he retired for another consultation . |
| 44 | A few years later , a homosexual friend of Anne 's said that he had come across a man who looked like Dustin , who hung out in gay bars , telling everyone he was Dustin Hoffman . |
| 45 | Hayling had come across a man called Chris Walsh who was already getting funds from the GLC for his latest , faltering , business enterprise , a Third World Development unit based in Highbury , North London . |
| 46 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 47 | He was not the wife 's solicitor and yet , in the view of the Privy Council , he had come under a duty to safeguard her interests . |
| 48 | Regarding Massawa as an essential channel for aid to northern Ethiopia , Western government representatives at the UN on April 24 called for a ceasefire around the port , which had come under a series of government bombing attacks [ ibid . ] . |
| 49 | Branson wrote to Powell , agreeing that the time had come for a separation . |
| 50 | During these years before the war , each summer , the village would be invaded by Londoners , who had come for a holiday in the country . |
| 51 | They did n't often have a chance to leave the pub together , but this afternoon she was determined to have a family outing , so as soon as the dinner-things were washed up , they had come for a walk to the Island Gardens . |
| 52 | He might as well have descended on the Palace , announcing that he had come for a stay . |
| 53 | Yorkshireman Martin Sterne , from Ripon , had come for a week 's golfing holiday with three friends , bringing their own golf professional with them from England . |
| 54 | To be fair , it really did look as though Ipswich had come for a draw , but we should have more imagination , pace or something to break down teams like that . |
| 55 | Just the day before the fatal collapse Konstantin , Dmitri 's brother , had come for a meal . |
| 56 | He had achieved a position of some prominence in the Senate between 1942 and 1944 but his choice as Roosevelt 's vice-presidential running mate at the Democratic convention in July 1944 had come as a surprise . |
| 57 | It was because she 'd never taken him seriously that the whole thing had come as a surprise . |
| 58 | Hammie Smillie , head of ScottishPower 's customer service , said in Glasgow yesterday that the introduction of VAT had come as a surprise . |
| 59 | One party had come as a dragon and were doing a conga through the dancing couples , tail disintegrating even as the giant head bobbed up and down . |
| 60 | It was plain for all to see that his father 's ultimatum had come as a shock to Jonna . |