Example sentences of "come to [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( But by the way , do n't look for Michael Palin 's name in this year 's programme , even though he has come to us every ‘ odd ’ year since 1981 . |
| 2 | Again there came to him a sense of how small a town of some eighty-five thousand people really was . |
| 3 | The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride . |
| 4 | However , he was also imbued with papal influences that came to him no doubt from his Roman and " papal " background , from Pope Gregory VII and from St Bernard in his tremendously important address to Eugenius III . |
| 5 | When Robert II of Flanders passed Christmas at St Omer , ‘ there came to him the dukes , the counts , the lords of many regions , nobles and knights from the whole of Flanders , and many French bishops ’ . |
| 6 | We are told that the hermit was once sitting alone in his cell after dinner when there came to him the lady of the house … and many persons with her , and found him writing rapidly . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr O'Hare came to me a number of times complaining that he was being pestered . |
| 8 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 9 | A friend of mine came to you a few months back . |
| 10 | Did he come to you every day ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Let me work in the sergeant 's mess , and I 'll come to you every day to entertain you . ’ |
| 12 | More than four million people come to it every year . |
| 13 | ‘ He said he would buy me a hat and I told him we 'd wait until they got the new 'uns in ; but when we come to it a week or two later he would n't spend his money . |
| 14 | Once they come to us the packaging has disappeared and so we ca n't sell it . |