Example sentences of "came to the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the two ‘ warriors ’ explain that ever since the first Earth party came to the Sense-Sphere years ago , repaying kindness with treachery in a bid to seize control of the planet 's rich stocks of the metal molybdenum , all humans are now made permanent prisoners . |
| 2 | The Washington brothers came to the Bringtons from Sulgrave seeking positions on the estate of their cousins , the Spencers , the family of HRH The Princess of Wales . |
| 3 | When Constable came to the Lake District , the rain , wind and constant clouds disturbed him . |
| 4 | I came to the Putney Young Women 's Christian Association Hostel to be near the hospital , and went to Fulham Congregational Church , so as to be near when IT happened . |
| 5 | She explained how they used to steal food , and how hard it was when she came to the Hogans , her first job , to realise she did n't have to take any stray biscuit or a fistful of sugar and put it into her apron . |
| 6 | On Saturday 70 of the people Mrs Harding has regularly visited came to the Spennymoor day centre to thank her for her work . |
| 7 | They passed the mouth of Liddesdale , and soon after came to the Kirkandrews ford . |
| 8 | They chatted on until they came to the Bramley Arms . |
| 9 | She ran a finger up the pale blue painted ribbon that was the Rhône , came to the Saône , touched the Côte de Beaune , the Cote de Nuits , bent to read the microscopic legends on the sign-flags , Corton-Charlemagne — Chambolle-Musigny — '; Oh , oh , oh . ’ |
| 10 | Since just after we came to the Manor . |
| 11 | When Sunderland came to the Manor in the league in December less than 2,000 Weirsiders saw them lose 3-0 . |
| 12 | He came to the Kingsbrook bridge and paused for a moment on the parapet , listening to the soft suck and chatter of the stream . |
| 13 | The Dobermann first came to the UK in the late 1940s , imported from Holland by a keen ‘ stockman ’ , Lionel Hamilton-Renwick . |
| 14 | This page : Rap styles first came to the UK via films like Wildstyle and Breakdance , and is now enjoying new interest from Hollywood after the huge US success of Kid N' Play 's House Party ( left ) . |
| 15 | In fact Canadian-born , he came to the UK more than 20 years ago . |
| 16 | When Millie came to the UK in 1964 on the strength of her huge hit ‘ My Boy Lollipop ’ , Edwards also arrived , and recorded under the tutelage of Chris Blackwell , Island 's Jamaican-born boss . |
| 17 | Four came to the UK . |
| 18 | The Gartner Group 's bandwagon came to the UK recently , where it used a conference in London — Open Systems : A Mix of Myth and Reality — for the launch of its latest consultancy package , the Open Systems Service . |
| 19 | Transworld is really buzzing about this writer , who came to the UK for the hardcover and was truly magnificent . |
| 20 | Born and educated in South Africa he first came to the UK as private secretary to the ambassador . |
| 21 | The second Mongol-British Round Table met in the UK in November 1989 and Uthany Mavlyet , Minister for the Protection of Nature and the Environment , came to the UK on Feb. 17-24 , 1990 , to study methods of protecting the environment . |
| 22 | Jean Poiret , the author of La Cage Aux Folles , came to the West End this week with Paris Match . |
| 23 | Soon after lie came to the West Riding he said to me , " This is the place for me ; I have never felt so happy as being in the North . " |
| 24 | She came to the Oxford Union to share her Christian message . |
| 25 | In the summer of 1888 landowners from Poltawa came to the Amir 's dominion and bought up live sheep in Kara Kul , which they took home by the railway . |
| 26 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 27 | I belonged to that great multitude who could n't help liking Dick Crossman : he and I were always nice to one another , right to the day in 1974 shortly before his death when he came to the Birmingham Bull Ring in acute physical discomfort to hear me advise my fellow-electors to vote Labour if they wanted out of the Common Market . |
| 28 | Both came to the Sunday services immediately after coming along to the centre , one of the lads having a belief in Jesus but had never taken the step of repentance and asking Him into his heart , when he did his reaction was to say he felt the chains fall from him and that he believes Jesus has broken his addiction to alcohol . |
| 29 | But that was not enough when it came to the Maastricht debate . |
| 30 | When they came to the Maastricht Treaty on European Union , British negotiators , at least , convinced themselves that they were operating in reasonably acceptable territory . |