Example sentences of "come very [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only two days after meeting Julie by the Serpentine in Hyde Park matters had come very quickly to a head . |
| 2 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 3 | He was for ‘ a delicious diligent indolence ’ , for a passiveness allowing the intellectual powers to come very gradually to ripeness . |
| 4 | The Cabinet came very near to such a decision . |
| 5 | And although I believe he was referring to a certain kind of abstract thinking — the kind that reduced the English Hegelian tradition to a lyrical hymn to the Absolute , and of which his own thesis on Bradley of 1916 came very near to imitating ( which is why he declared , on its publication in 1963 , that he did not pretend to understand it ) , he possessed an outstanding capacity for reasoned argument . |
| 6 | The hon. Member for Hemsworth stuck , within reasonable bounds , to the conventions of the House in not making an over-contentious maiden speech , but he came very near to being contentious |
| 7 | But it did not , she found , come very naturally to her . |