Example sentences of "come to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , constituency party membership rose that year to 265,763 , an increase of well over 10% on 1943.35 With the sudden break-out of the armies from the Normandy bridgehead , it looked as if what Churchill called the ‘ German war ’ was about to come to its conclusion ; and , as we have seen , in October 1944 , when the Commons once more renewed the electoral truce for a year , it was Churchill himself who said that this would be the signal for the dissolution of the coalition . |
| 2 | The era of sealing wax and string was beginning to come to its end , although the end was far off ; in the Cavendish Laboratory under Rutherford in the 1930s the story was that research workers asking for string were made to say how many inches of it they needed . |
| 3 | Ironically , the very forces which have created such a barren environment for wildlife may now be about to come to its rescue , as agricultural surpluses , the heavy cost of the CAP and the demands of world trade are forcing hard political decisions . |
| 4 | Its terms , secret at the time , have seemed odd : if one of the signatories were to be attacked by Russia , the other was to come to her support . |
| 5 | While he sang to the girl the Don wants to come to her window , calling her his treasure , asking her not to be cruel , at least to let him see her , he looked at Alice , turned his face away from the audience who had gathered and looked at her . |
| 6 | They were just getting into their stride when they received an invitation from Lila to come to her place . |
| 7 | His name was the first to come to her mind and his telephone number was in the directory . |
| 8 | Miss T. 's mother and father had an argument , but not in the presence of Miss T. , and agreed that they would not allow their acrimonious relationship to come to her notice . |
| 9 | At last , in 1975 , the wife of one of the prisoners , a former air force pilot , telephoned the young woman 's mother to come to her house quickly . |
| 10 | Mary had told her not to be a fool , to come to her house and get a decent night 's sleep . |
| 11 | She asked him to come to her room so as not to overhear any more , and then they went downstairs in an express lift : a glass-and-gilt beetle that hurtled the twenty-eight floors in nine and a half seconds . |
| 12 | Gwendolen started to scream at this hard-heartedness , but suddenly stopped again as Auguste rose to come to her aid . |
| 13 | People living in Marl Drive staged a demonstration after waiting more than 18 hours for council workers to come to their assistance . |
| 14 | It is , of course , also possible that the genetically handicapped will be simply too few ever to influence the majority to come to their help . |
| 15 | Martha saved herself from relegation to a junior class by reciting the whole of Psalm 103 , one of Nana 's favourites , in morning assembly ; after this feat her teacher had a long conversation above her head with her mother , and began to come to their house on Saturdays to give her extra lessons . |
| 16 | It was left to Professor Dowd to come to their aid in 1870 by publishing a 107-page monograph entitled A System of National Time for Railroads . |
| 17 | And where the members genuinely have control over the board it is legitimate to regard them as partly responsible for any losses that might result , and hence to view it as inappropriate for the court to come to their aid . |
| 18 | In a new departure , EPLF gunboats attacked and set fire to a Polish freighter off the Eritrean Red Sea coast on Jan. 3 ; they seized the 30-strong crew and fired rockets to drive off a second Polish freighter which attempted to come to their aid . |
| 19 | Walkerburn families had experienced severe poverty when the factory closed , yet the welfare state had failed to come to their rescue . |
| 20 | It is likely that a good many protestant loyalists oscillate between the two and still have to come to their moment of decision , one that is likely to be forced on them by future events . |
| 21 | Disabled applicants are encouraged to come to whichever campus they hope to study at , meet the staff from the Student Services Department and academic departments and weigh up the issues of facilities and ease of access for themselves . |
| 22 | Underlying such accounts was an image of fraternal and cousinly solidarities and loyalties : if an outsider harmed your brother , you had to come to his support , even if you yourself were in dispute with him . |
| 23 | While in ( 16b ) the speaker is not represented as having any kind of expectations at all , in ( 16a ) he is : the sentence with the infinitive means that the speaker was hoping for someone to come to his assistance even before this happened . |
| 24 | Under English law , ordinary passers-by could be required by a constable to come to his assistance in making an arrest , failure to do so being a punishable offence . |
| 25 | He added that in return I had to help him : I would have to come to his office once a week and report on what was happening in Fontanellato . |
| 26 | She had had a letter from Edwin 's solicitor asking her to come to his office the following day . |
| 27 | It simply asked me to come to his office tomorrow afternoon at half-past two . ’ |
| 28 | He is currently working on a series of photographs of buskers — he simply approaches them in the street and asks them to come to his studio . |
| 29 | Nor can Erich Honecker now ask the most important guest not to come to his party . |
| 30 | But he is old , Shelley , and he has to come to his end some time . |