Example sentences of "came [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the freight train came slowly to a halt at the loop stop signal near the box , the fireman told the signalman of their problem who in turn reported the incident to the train control . |
| 2 | Mr Phillips heard the noise , and came slowly to the front of the schoolroom . |
| 3 | Saint Cloud , situated on a hill dominating Paris , to which it was linked by a railway branch line which came right to the park of the palace , was certainly the — most delightful of all the Imperial properties . |
| 4 | There was a whiffle from Hector , and next instant the gentleman 's footsteps came swiftly to the door and Theda moved quickly away . |
| 5 | A small white shape darted through the line of torches and came swiftly to the earth wall around the village . |
| 6 | He came swiftly to the point . |
| 7 | In the late eighteenth century this symbiosis of peers and paupers is revealed in the fashionable aping of lower-class mores and dress , a version of the return to nature that came naturally to an upper class lacking a culture of its own . |
| 8 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 9 | They came finally to a gap in the hedge on the left-hand side of the road where there was a five-barred gate . |
| 10 | A breathless Charlie managed to catch him up when he came finally to a halt behind a tree . |
| 11 | He came rapidly to the conclusion that blood-letting , enemas and emetics weakened the already ill patients and could in no way help towards a cure , and he campaigned against such practices for most of his life . |
| 12 | He came directly to the parlour shared by Astorre , John and Tobie , followed by servants attempting to rid him of his wet cloak . |
| 13 | Li Yuan turned back , frowning , then , trusting to instinct , came directly to the point . |
| 14 | When the Campaign for Real Ale embarked in the early 1970s on its crusade to preserve and promote our disappearing beer heritage , three watchwords came quickly to the fore ; choice , quality and tradition . |
| 15 | Neither did he move from where he was standing , just inside the door , for almost a minute ; and when he did , he came quickly to the side of the table and stood within an arm 's length of her . |
| 16 | He came quickly to the point . |
| 17 | The aspirations of the democratic governments and the peoples of Central and East Europe to join the EC came quickly to the fore , and the Twelve were pressed to react . |
| 18 | In turn he came quickly to the point : his venture needed capital and what monies he had were tied up in his house . |
| 19 | Evenings she came home to a stack of manila envelopes with folded papers lettered in scarlet and black . |
| 20 | But he came home to a recession . |
| 21 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 22 | Remember when long-time lover and former muse Sondra Locke came home to the Beverly Hills mansion they shared for 13 years to find that the locks had been changed ? |
| 23 | In March 1982 , matters came further to a head when the ILEA informed the polytechnic that it was withholding its block grant for 1982–3 until the financial crisis had been resolved . |
| 24 | Greg Thomas came close to a wicket three times in his first over in Test cricket , but Greenidge and Haynes survived to give their usual start before Greenidge had to retire with a cut forehead after mishooking Botham . |
| 25 | In chilly conditions , P. McReynolds came close to a personal best with a time of 1 hr. 6 mins. 31 secs . |
| 26 | The writing of that book in hospital , I now realise , came close to a meditation . |
| 27 | Somerset seamer Neil Mallender came close to a surprise Test cap in New Zealand recently |
| 28 | With regard to Calvinism , Ewing had joined Thomas Erskine [ q.v. ] of Linlathen as early as 1836 in opposing predestination , and he later came close to a doctrine of universal salvation . |
| 29 | They held on , kept Millwall out ; came close to a fourth but that would have flattered Swindon : 3-1 and a happy new year at the county ground . |
| 30 | He took avoiding action but came close to a third . |