Example sentences of "[vb past] to come [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haydon failed to come to any agreement with his creditors . |
| 2 | However , the two parties failed to come to any agreement over plans for the construction of autoroute A16 , linking Boulogne with Amiens . |
| 3 | The government has already invested large sums of money in engineering crops that resist insect pests and the climatic extremes expected to come with global warming |
| 4 | It seemed to come from another world of reference , an older , ordinary world , of platitude and cliché , of pattern and familiar family ties , a world that she had thought they had never entered , for many good reasons never entered : and now here was Charles himself , invoking its terms , as though it had been there always , as though they had always inhabited its domain . |
| 5 | In 1987 a team of scientists found small amounts of diamonds in meteorites which , because of their composition , seemed to come from interstellar space . |
| 6 | The lead , believed to come from industrialised countries in the southern hemisphere , is at very low concentrations and does not pose a threat to living organisms . |
| 7 | ( They managed to come on last year 's Central Wales Line trip . ) |
| 8 | The Autonomous Region of South Ossetia continued to come under heavy attack from Georgian forces sited outside its capital , Tskhinvali , which was cut off from aid ; there were reports of hostage-taking . |
| 9 | I had to come round this way this morning to get to Whitehall It 's just so chock-a-block on that new ro roadway . |
| 10 | It had to come from some distance away since over the centuries the trees and bushes on both sides of the river had been lopped down . |
| 11 | And we tended to come to this area , grass and there 's that bar thing again |
| 12 | Those most in favour of recycling were in the 15-19 and 35-54 age groups , and tended to come from higher income earners in southern England . |
| 13 | Bertrand says he wanted to come to this country to learn English and play Rugby . |
| 14 | It was just er you may say destiny brought me here which I never wanted to come to this place . |