Example sentences of "come [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice said , " I have come to report on an agreed squat — you know , short-term housing — surely you know … " |
| 2 | And as patients have become more involved in identifying and negotiating areas for learning and behavioural change , the field of investigation has come to borrow from the theories and practice of counselling . |
| 3 | There were on the film set few of the moments I had come to dread during the run of the stage show — when he 'd slap me down , or even when he would encourage me , egg me on . ’ |
| 4 | He glanced up to where Merrill had come to stand in the doorway , an amused smile flickering across his sensual mouth , his eyes slightly mocking . |
| 5 | The Madame lived to the age of 90. when she died , some time in the 1970s , the hotel was left to Abdulrahim , a Nubian from Aswan who had come to work for the Madame as a young boy before the Second World War . |
| 6 | Sayer has come to work as a laboratory assistant but he 's drawn to a group of patients scattered throughout the hospital . |
| 7 | Therefore , it is against that back-cloth , that I respond to these orchestrated criticisms and express my views on the man I have come to know as a friend and a very good colleague . |
| 8 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 9 | Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser . |
| 10 | From this tiny house had flowed some at least of the immortal words that the world had come to know as The Pickwick Papers . |
| 11 | Did you yourself come to know about the article in the Telegraph ? |
| 12 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've come to listen to a very distinguished visitor , Berel Karlinsky , a famous man we 've all heard of . |
| 14 | ‘ And you 've come to listen to the sean nós ? ’ |
| 15 | But this Christmas an invitation had come to celebrate with the Bradfords , and he had found her . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's come to talk with the General . ’ |
| 17 | In particular , Keyes had come to identify with the Romantic movement , and it was Heath-Stubbs who was able to broaden Keyes 's base by tracing for him the origins of Romanticism in primitive legends through the medieval to the Augustan poets . |
| 18 | This is where family work could be useful helping the whole family to understand the part alcohol has come to play in the life of the vulnerable elderly person , the pattern of abuse , the defensiveness about it , and the likely outcome . |
| 19 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 20 | And No. 6 displays both the breath-taking pianism we have now come to expect with a compositional skill to which one can only take one 's hat off . |
| 21 | The periodic ‘ Fed bashing ’ which one has come to expect of the incumbent political Administrations has again resurfaced . |
| 22 | It was certainly not what undergraduates at Oxford had come to expect from a lecturer . |
| 23 | It seems the French got the better part of the deal when the Eurodisney share price was announced in the City yesterday with all the overkill we have come to expect from the Americans . |
| 24 | However , lively detail is no substitute for an integrated texture of the sort we have come to expect from the WNO chorus and orchestra . |
| 25 | In general , this guide continues the same high standards we have come to expect from the Fell and Rock , despite a scattering of proof reading errors here and there . |
| 26 | Choosing the right diet is the key , and to make it easy for you we have devised a three-part series , Slim Plan ( page 81 ) , backed by all the knowledge , research and thorough testing you have come to expect from the Good Housekeeping Institute . |
| 27 | It has been a day which commenced so stunningly with the horse and carriage procession , swept forward with the harmonious , soaring , musical arrangements at the wedding ceremony , and has culminated in the utter perfection of the gourmet dinner , all in keeping with what we have come to expect from the organizational abilities of one of the world 's paragons . |
| 28 | She was not beautiful , and hardly fey as he had come to expect from the fair sex , but there was something undeniably compelling about her . |
| 29 | The game is very playable and the graphics are flicker free as we have come to expect from the top shareware authors . |
| 30 | The Aggravated Vehicle-Taking Bill follows a course that we have come to expect from the Home Secretary and the Government . |