Example sentences of "come [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his release he had come straight-up to Moila , and by last weekend — it was possibly true enough — had not heard of his parents ' departure , but had thought he could go straight home . |
| 2 | I was struck dumb because George Crowninshield , senator and possibly a future President of the United States , had come alone to Straker 's Cay . |
| 3 | Well he was well he was coming from the Grove to the finger post to come along Wolverhampton Road , Lichfield Road , to come home to Church Street . |
| 4 | Here in this place we are being encouraged to come home to God 's dwelling place . |
| 5 | Overnight the full force of what might have happened had finally come home to Elise , and she 'd spent most of the day clucking round her young sister like a hen with one chick . |
| 6 | While Hocazade was at Iznik , where he had been sent after having been removed from the kadilik of Istanbul through the machinations of Karamani Mehmed Pasa , he had occasion to come once to Istanbul . |
| 7 | We do not , of course , wish to gloat , having come close to liquidation many times ourselves , but it has to be said , WELL DONE , SIDCOMBE ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , in contrast to Nicaragua , where the economy has come close to collapse , in El Salvador both the additional costs of the war and increasing indebtedness have been counterbalanced by very large injections of aid from the United States . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It would have been better if she had never come here to Spain . |
| 13 | If there had been I would n't have come here to work , and you know that fact quite well , so forget your so-called ‘ rights ’ , ’ she finished scornfully . |
| 14 | To open up new routes Virgin needs more planes , and it 's come here to Airbus , in the South of France for some of them . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh all right , I have n't been inside this house since I used to come here to dances when your father was a boy . |
| 16 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 17 | In the far-off fifties , mute obedience seemed to come readily to schoolchildren , in marked contrast to the sullen disobedience which is seen today . |
| 18 | The so-called Higher Criticism had come late to Britain , and its consequences are still with us in the interpretation of stories of Virgin Birth and Resurrection . |
| 19 | And each time Dexter believed he had come closer to Blanche , understood her better , and liked her more . |
| 20 | But the subjects I have been concerned with recently have been more directly related to my own experience of life : the situation in Northern Ireland ; the Gulf War ; my thoughts have come closer to home . |
| 21 | Child care and education providers , and colleges working in partnership with such providers are now being invited to come forward to SCOTVEC for approval to offer the new SVQs . |
| 22 | Arbroath was founded in 1178 by an order descended from Abbot Bernard who left Poitiers for Tiron ; monks from this Benedictine reform group of Tironensians established Kelso down on the Borders , and two friars came thence to Arbroath . |
| 23 | But she saw , too , Roberta , who came swiftly to Faye , and seized her two arms , and pulled her back out of sight . |
| 24 | Even more extreme and , frankly , disturbing was the case of Jamaican-born boxer Winston Davis who came alone to England ( his parents preceded him ) in 1970 , when aged 13 . |
| 25 | Wars came early to Shanghai , overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to the gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bond . |
| 26 | Christianity came early to Egypt . |
| 27 | The people who emigrated in the first stage were mainly farming families from the state of Gujerat ( see map ) and craft-workers from Punjab , while those who came directly to Britain in the 1950s and 60s were mainly farming families from Gujerat and the Indian and Pakistani areas of Punjab . |
| 28 | Ebert marched to the centre of the room and came smartly to attention , lowering his head respectfully , waiting for his T'ang to speak . |
| 29 | Michael Young came specially to Banbury to talk about the age of transfer , and many things besides . |
| 30 | The next morning , I came home to defiance in the face of defeat and 50 Scots Labour MPs , the Fighting Fifty . |