Example sentences of "come [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sergeant Troy had come to help on the farm . |
| 2 | The Padre was unable to find any word at all ; his eyes had come to rest on the golden letters " Holy Bible " on the back of Fleury 's razor blade . |
| 3 | In fact , she was on the point of reining in when she saw that Beador had come to rest on the top of the trunk ; he stood there , poised like a trick rider in a circus . |
| 4 | Under Felipismo , Spaniards have come to depend on the state again , as they did for so long under Generalissimo Franco 's regime . ’ |
| 5 | Life or death has come to depend on the proper functioning or malfunctioning of super-sensitive equipment over a couple of seconds . |
| 6 | The agricultural system was stable but not stagnant : it had come to depend on the cow , maize , and wheat , sensible rotations and no fallow . |
| 7 | For several reasons more people had come to depend on the cash purchase of goods . |
| 8 | During the past 15 years patients have come to depend on the day hospital service . |
| 9 | Yet such criticism and dismay were in themselves testimony to the degree of reliance which the Americans had come to place on the special relationship — especially outside Europe . |
| 10 | This activity has earned the gratitude and , indeed , the respect of hacks such as myself , who have come to rely on the OHE 's booklets and fact sheets and other publications as accurate and marvellously convenient source material . |
| 11 | It has also come to rely on the part-time staff made available by the Association pour le Fouilles d'Archeologie Nationale , which in turn depends largely on private money , although it is in the charge of the Ministry . |
| 12 | He came to sit on the floor near her chair with his elbows on his knees , hands linked . |
| 13 | This study highlighted a number of problems that family farmers faced when a member of the family came to work on the farm so perhaps it was an opportune time to look at this in more detail . |
| 14 | Martha had been attracted to Bob Lamb since the shepherd first came to work on the farm the previous November . |
| 15 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 16 | Grandfather James Hauxwell met Grandmother Elizabeth , who was a Bayles , when he came to work on the building of the reservoir , just below Low Birk Hatt . |
| 17 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
| 18 | A robin came to perch on the trellis , only an arm 's distance away . |
| 19 | All talk of a referendum had been dropped by the time the Supreme Soviet came to vote on the programme . |
| 20 | I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand . |
| 21 | His eyes came to rest on the tear-stained face of Mrs Bennett , whose baby had so recently died , and he suffered a pang of pity for her . |
| 22 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 23 | All three landing gear legs were torn off shortly after ground impact and the aircraft finally came to rest on the belly of the fuselage . |
| 24 | The beam came to rest on the Ngo brothers , and after a moment 's hesitation Duclos bent down and seized Hoc by the arm . |
| 25 | Then an arm lifted , as though of its own accord , and came to rest on the crown of his head . |
| 26 | Some came to rest on the bamboo pigeon frames — horizontal slats of trellising raised on a pole — that several of the fliers had raised above their roofs . |
| 27 | These separated and came to rest on the head of each of them . |
| 28 | Her eyes closed tight shut , and her forehead came to rest on the hands that gripped the bedpost . |
| 29 | Her gaze came to rest on the inscription at the top of the page . |
| 30 | Their voices faded into the background as Isabel 's eyes came to rest on the third horse . |