Example sentences of "come [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 2 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 3 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 4 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 5 | The firemen who came to put out the fire had a narrow escape when the roof fell in as they were working inside the building . |
| 6 | Neil Pascoe says he 's always wanted to cycle from John 0 Groats to Lands End and then the idea came to run up the three peaks and swim the lakes and try to raise money for charity … |
| 7 | Sometimes even in fights , throwing stones and other things against the security forces who came to break up the picket lines or arrest the trade union leaders . |
| 8 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 9 | More generally , any laissez faire connection helps very little in understanding how Darwin came to take up the problems his theorizing was to solve . |
| 10 | When Jarvis came to take over the house , although a good many people had been inside it and others had lived in it , the chair and the stool were still in the bellringer 's room . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , working class women could still filter out useful information from a visit to a School for Mothers , and as the local authorities increasingly came to take over the Schools and Babies ' Welcomes and turn them into infant welfare centres , so they became more acceptable to working class women . |
| 12 | At the same time , in some towns at least , bishops came to take over the duties of such late Roman officers as the defensores , who had been expected to defend the weak . |
| 13 | And then there Further up the glen from me , from our , house there 's a place called Dalnasnecht It 's a little place in the beside the water and beyond it there 's a great piece of ground on the hill and it was called er Argyll 's Reed where Argy Where all Where Argyll 's men stayed when they came to burn down the bonny house early , Forter Castle . |
| 14 | So she 's phoned , and I says , ask them if they 're coming to board up the windows which were boarded when she went in ? |
| 15 | They 're from one of the country Women 's Institutes , and they 're coming to check out the suitability of the bush walk for a much larger party — most of them elderly . |
| 16 | When came to dig out the foundations and like the buildings round the tanks . |
| 17 | When they come to write up the results of their research different anthropologists will , for doctrinal reasons , give very different weight to these two major aspects of the data , but , in the field , the anthropologist must always pay attention to both sides . |
| 18 | Before starting to write , read through the whole of the examination paper and jot down in the margin the names of plaintiffs ( or criminal defendants ) in any relevant cases you remember , the dates of statutes and any other details that are likely to elude you when you come to write out the question . |
| 19 | This way , when you come to cut up the cake every child gets a piece with his or her name on it . |
| 20 | Fred will feel the benefit when he comes to take over the business . ’ |
| 21 | This remark had important implications in the theory of the technique of psychoanalysis , where transference — the way the analyst comes to take on the emotional elements of a parent figure for the analysand — plays a key part in understanding the therapeutic effects of psychoanalysis . |
| 22 | When it does so , it has a bigger meal than it can manage by itself and many another animal comes to lap up the spilt yolk . |