Example sentences of "came [adv prt] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We glimpse Raulinus , for example , who came from Devon in the mid-thirteenth century , wasted time as a student in Paris for two years and then came on to Bologna making a living copying manuscripts , drinking and writing love poems to Meldina . |
| 2 | A grim twist came on to Taggy 's lips . |
| 3 | The pressure came on to Goreng from above . |
| 4 | But it was a damp , grey morning , and they had n't gone far before it came on to rain . |
| 5 | ‘ He told me that there was a wonderful view , but it came on to rain and — ’ |
| 6 | Said everything came down to sex , did n't he ? ’ |
| 7 | On the last occasion he had seen his mother , which was when he came down to Plumford for lunch at Easter , he had thought that to all outward appearances she was exactly the same as she had always been . |
| 8 | And then I came down to Kerry after my operations because I was er for my feet , I had to get them amputated because For the hardening of the arteries |
| 9 | The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one . |
| 10 | No no , we just er came down to Personnel Office and |
| 11 | He came down to Highbury on crutches , so grave was the extent of his injury . |
| 12 | I just slipped out , walked down a corridor , out through a side exit and came down to home . |
| 13 | And then , in the , I think it was the June , I came down to Colchester , and as soon as I got to Colchester the old adjutant nurse said oh you , going for a a B one qualification , and I had to go to Colchester to the Ordnance , it , it , it was an Ordnance workshops I suppose that was what it was . |
| 14 | Henrietta came down to lunch , still shivering slightly , in a sweater and jeans , and refused to discuss her experience , telling Jacqueline not to be bloody silly when she asked if she 'd seen crocodiles . |
| 15 | John came down to Barking , he was n't a General Secretary he was just an officer , and I remember cos I 've got a good memory John what you said to me . |
| 16 | The account of Paul 's dream about the Macedonian appears in Acts , Chapter 16 : 8 And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas . |
| 17 | It was wonderful because so many people came down to Hackney which is not the easiest place to get to . |
| 18 | Mark Jefferson , Harriet 's cousin , came down to Cornwall ostensibly to spend a week with them over Christmas , but left the day after Boxing Day . |
| 19 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 20 | When we came down to breakfast the other guests were so absorbed in some news in the morning papers that they forgot the usual ragging of newlyweds . |
| 21 | His mother would find him still at it when she came down to breakfast in the morning . |
| 22 | One morning , Mother came down to breakfast . |
| 23 | The next day , when Edward came down to breakfast , Gordon Lang , the Archbishop of Canterbury , was waiting for him . |
| 24 | WHEN HE CAME down to breakfast next morning Wycliffe found the hall full of suitcases ; the conference was breaking up . |
| 25 | It could n't be left there for the old lady to find when she came down to breakfast . |
| 26 | He was already gone when she came down to breakfast , which did n't surprise her at all . |
| 27 | Back at home again I came down to breakfast one morning scratching my head and my hair started to fall out . |
| 28 | erm Then she came down to Christchurch and was welcomed by the heads of the university , her husband had already greeted her outside Oxford , on the site of , actually , and then Charles escorted her to her own household in Merton College . |
| 29 | When he came down to Hillmarden that Friday night he did not , mercifully , refer to her mid-week sortie . |
| 30 | White duly came down to London from his home in Wolverhampton — he is the senior member of a remarkable quartet of Elvis Gordon , Dennis Stewart and the banned Kerrith Brown who have all won medals at world level , yet all train in the back room of an Edwardian bath house . |