Example sentences of "who come [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor who came to see the poor Doc ( a psychoanalyst and neurological specialist ) said that every neurotic case went back to the childish fear of the father . |
| 2 | However , the expense of welcoming and entertaining all the visitors who came to see the dolphin began to tax the modest resources of the town , and to destroy its quiet and peaceful character . |
| 3 | Yes , that was interesting , I mean several of the people who came to see the |
| 4 | Oscar Wilde had his Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1895 ) — the original four-act version — fob off the solicitor Gribsby who came to serve a writ on him , with frivolous repartee . |
| 5 | His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants . |
| 6 | Francesca made it sound like someone who came to clean the telephone . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the official surveyors who came to map the Trepke boundaries remained too afraid to go into the fields of the estate . |
| 8 | There was the man demobbed from his regiment who came to do the garden just as he had before he was called to war . |
| 9 | He is only an ordinary Hobbit who came to own the Ring because he was given it and he does not consider himself great enough to do anything with it except destroy it . |
| 10 | Keating , who came to symbolise the fraud and corruption that lay behind the collapse of hundreds of savings and loan institutions , which are comparable to British building societies , is still awaiting trial on more serious fraud and racketeering charges . |
| 11 | We also ‘ drowned male kittens , beat up the man who came to read the meter , and held covens where we stuck pins in male voodoo dollies ’ . |
| 12 | The man who came to personify the recklessness and corruption at the centre of the S&L scandal , Charles Keating Jr , 68 , was sentenced on April 10 to 10 years in prison and was fined $250,000 . |
| 13 | We had in addition to this party , — a doctor coming to visit his mother , who lived in Coll ; a young Englishman with a fishing-rod , who had left a medical practice for a few days , to whip the burns of Coll and breathe the fine air ; a minister 's wife ; a retired minister and his wife , both in delicate health ; the fiscal of Tobermory , who had a farm in Tiree ; the Chief Constable and Sheriff Clerk from Mull , who came to investigate a case of suspected cattle poisoning ; and a young Glasgow teacher , who came to be guest of the Fiscal aforementioned . |
| 14 | He was shot trying to stop some guys who came to steal a lot of our money . |
| 15 | He is an engineer who came to study the spine because of his own back pains . |
| 16 | It was one important consideration in Bernstein 's ‘ revision ’ of Marxist theory , and the problem was later analysed more fully by the Austro-Marxist thinkers , who came to recognize the political significance of the growing complexity of the class structure , and in particular the influence of what Karl Renner called the ‘ service class ’ . |
| 17 | St Clement Danes is a place of pilgrimage for many who come to see the incribed names in the Memorial Books of those whom they have lost . |
| 18 | These are of interest to horticulturalists and gardeners , as much as to those who come to see the animals . |
| 19 | People who come to see the Chiltern Brothers knew they 'd get a real show . |
| 20 | About 16 000 000 visits are made each year by town and city folk who come to use the same landscape . |
| 21 | Many artists are now drawn to it , and find that it has other attractions than the records of the burial of kings : they love to paint the children who come to meet the tourist with wave-worn pebbles from the sacred isle , and also the scenery of Mull , and the many lochs that indent that isle of bold headlands and rugged mountains masses , as they are seen from Iona . |
| 22 | Was that what all the passion for landscapes and pretty rural images was about — ‘ they love to paint the children who come to meet the tourist with wave-worn pebbles from the sacred isle … ’ |
| 23 | The squirrels too , who come to steal the birds ' nuts are a constant source of entertainment . |
| 24 | Now it is a prosperous place , making its living from light industry and the visitors who come to tour the battlefields . |
| 25 | He has three children , who come to stay every other weekend . |
| 26 | As Truong Chinh is said to have told the ‘ People 's Congress ’ in August ‘ We must wrest power from the hands of the Japanese and their stooges before the arrival of the Allies in Indo-China , and , as masters of the country , we shall receive the Allies who come to disarm the Japanese . ’ |
| 27 | Mary 's heart was enlarged with a great vision of God who comes to overthrow the oppressor and rescue the poor . |
| 28 | I think the real English gardens are not the manicured lawns of the home counties ( usually nurtured by someone ‘ who comes to do the garden ’ ) but precisely these little pocket handkerchief gardens and allotments ; places of little rugs and doormats and tiny bits of land for which rain is prayed , cultivated with beans and tomatoes and cabbages and roses , a respite from the rest of life , where people are autonomous , in control of something they are making . |
| 29 | It may be for everyone who comes to buy a ticket , but those who do choose to go are a small minority of the population . |