Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
| 2 | The Vicar had come round to tea and was talking to Tommy and his mother about his daughter . |
| 3 | Besides , it had come on to rain , and the prospect of arriving home soaking wet to find my housemates Trisha and Brian curled up in a post-coital stupor in front of the TV was more than I could bear , so I swallowed my pride and went back inside . |
| 4 | The revolt had come close to success and it may well have shaken Henry II 's confidence in his son 's ability to rule Aquitaine . |
| 5 | Few Yek were happy at sea , and a ship-borne invasion of Y'frike years earlier had come close to failure at one point because the reinforcements delivered to its shores had been so weakened by the effects of their voyage . |
| 6 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 7 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 8 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 9 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 10 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |