Example sentences of "came [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know schools up the [ place in West Belfast ] who would welcome us , but what happened one time , a school up there won the trophy and the next day some boys [ i.e. from the IRA ] came demanding the shield and threatening what they would do to certain teachers if it was n't handed over . |
| 2 | And when Innocent came to crown the Emperor Otto IV in 1209 he introduced a new oath in which he incorporated a pledge to conserve the pope 's possessions and laws . |
| 3 | Although formally set out only at a later date ( c.1372 ) , they came to include the rights to create notaries , to legitimize bastards , to grant letters conferring the status of bourgeoisie and nobility , to issue pardons and remissions , to license fairs and markets , to permit suitors to be represented at law by proctors , and to legislate for the common weal of the kingdom . |
| 4 | It came to include the policy for polytechnics , that is — a measure of concentration — announced in the 1966 White Paper , and more or less finalized in a Parliamentary statement in April 1967 , when Crosland announced confirmation of a list of twenty-eight polytechnics in England and Wales , leaving open the possibility of two more . |
| 5 | I thought , and then I happened to go , Jim came to carry the fruit and vegetables for me and when it had opened again , and there was she with this , I looked at Jim and I said ah ! |
| 6 | I remembered that when I had first come to live with Jean-Claude , I had learnt to hear him thinking , and how I had not lost this gift but came to enjoy the sound of his inner voice much less . |
| 7 | The enterprise sometimes came to acquire the character of an amusing game , not particularly relevant to present-day interests : immediacy was lost as the content was determined by someone else 's theoretical concerns rather than by a passionate and resentful , if intermittent , opposition to some particular intrusion of government . |
| 8 | Snaith was a Peculiar , ie it had its own ecclesiastical court and in many ways it was exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop , which may explain the fact that the Bishop 's inspectors came to interview the brothers at Snaith for reported ‘ indiscretions ’ and were unable to carry out their inspection because the brothers had summoned the ferry to the Snaith bank so they could not cross the river ! |
| 9 | Many people doubtless came to embrace the emperor 's religion for worthier motives ; but Eusebius put his finger on the radical novelty of the condition in which Christians now found themselves . |
| 10 | They were not , Leading Seaman , now Sub-Lieutenant Saunders also came to see the Minister , and stay at the small guest house in Lillie Road . |
| 11 | Now , as the son came to see the marble bust for the last time , court photographers crowded around to capture the poignancy of the son saying goodbye , presumably with a sense of terrible failure , to the father for whom he had never been good enough . |
| 12 | A large crowd came to see the rally start at White Waltham on a cold and windy March 25 last year . |
| 13 | 13 months ago schools minister Tim Eggar came to see the problems for himself . |
| 14 | However , the expense of welcoming and entertaining all the visitors who came to see the dolphin began to tax the modest resources of the town , and to destroy its quiet and peaceful character . |
| 15 | You know when we came in the other day , you came to see the sofa ? |
| 16 | Perhaps my father could n't be bothered , perhaps he was worried about his unpredictable epilepsy ( I was ) , but he never came to see the school . |
| 17 | The five CMHTs varied greatly in their precise method of operation and these variations were hotly debated among themselves at times , but they all engaged in service development and came to see the generation of personal treatment plans as a prelude to service development rather than as being constrained by the existing service stock . |
| 18 | It was against this background that he fell seriously ill in 1881 during the writing of A Laodicean , and after ten years of moving between London and small Dorset towns such as Swanage and Sturminster Newton came to see the solution to all his problems in a final return to Dorchester . |
| 19 | The United States wished to discharge its debts to those with whom it had fought during the war ; but it also came to see the volume of refugees as a kind of continuing proof that it had waged a just struggle against evil forces . |
| 20 | The United States wished to discharge its debts to those with whom it had fought during the war ; but it also came to see the volume of refugees as a kind of continuing proof that it had waged a just struggle against evil forces . |
| 21 | Malc and his wife Lynda came to see the show last Saturday . |
| 22 | One night two men very big in British film comedy came to see the show . |
| 23 | An American came to see the show one night and was practically addicted to it . |
| 24 | In Brighton , the then Sir Laurence Olivier came to see the show and called round to Williams 's dressing room afterwards . |
| 25 | I came to see the world as an abundant and joyous place to be . |
| 26 | His dry sense of humour spilled over into what might have been a harrowing session and by carefully chosen words and clear illustrations we came to see the value of the painstaking work required by those at the scene of a major accident . |
| 27 | Mary Hammond-Heath , still not a qualified barrister , lived in a room in a house in Clapham , and came to see the Bouveries on the long-distance bus , because it was cheaper . |
| 28 | As the struggle progressed he came to see the inadequacies of the term and realized that it was too constricted in its meaning and gave rise to confusion and misunderstanding . |
| 29 | It occurred to him that he had not worn his best clothes for many weeks ; not since that confusing afternoon when some of Buddie 's friends had rushed through the house carrying boxes , cases and sacks that must not be discovered when the police came to search the place . |
| 30 | Patients appreciated a more understanding approach , and orthodox practitioners themselves came to realize the harm caused by their traditional practices and gradually rejected them , while at the same time adopting the sensible preventive measures . |