Example sentences of "came [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How the platypus came to acquire this apparatus remains a mystery : few venomous animals use their venom when fighting among themselves , and it has therefore been suggested that the venom gland is a survival factor originally directed against some long-extinct predator . |
| 2 | He came to see this play last week . |
| 3 | This project , we 're very pleased , is directed by Doctor Eric Briot , you may remember was the Chief Education Officer in London until he retired and came to lead this project , and a man of very great standing in education field , and what he 's looking at is the effect of the falling school populations , which is already hitting primary schools , on these large comprehensives that we 've created . |
| 4 | Labour party politicians came to view this examination and the consequent dichotomy between grammar and secondary modern schools as educationally questionable and socially divisive : those attending secondary modern schools were seen as " failures " and their subsequent job opportunities limited by virtue of their education . |
| 5 | The catch phrase ‘ If it is n't hurting , it is n't working ’ came to epitomize this approach to anti-inflation policy . |
| 6 | As the years passed , my cousin came to encounter this phenomenon again and again . |
| 7 | However , even when research came to recognize this exaggeration and to examine the diversity of local service provision , local politics remained shrouded in mystery . |
| 8 | AS trade-union officials came to recognize this ability they swung their organizations behind the only Party which has ever secured any significant working-class representation in the British parliament . |
| 9 | Wilson felt only dimly aware of Miss Blagden 's kindness but later came to realise this sign and evidence of human concern had most probably saved her that time from real madness . |
| 10 | I should perhaps say a little about how I came to think this way : that the key to educational change is in the stance that teachers individually and collectively adopt towards change . |
| 11 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 12 | When I came to rehearse this scene with him , we went through it and he said to me , " That wo n't do , you know , " and I was shattered . |
| 13 | It 's my guess that Louisa came to feel this way — that that 's why she burned her book . |