Example sentences of "came to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mass came to 0.82 M E . |
| 2 | I was , I explained , a bit of a big girl 's blouse when it came to crumbling ledges , sheer drops , being underwater for unreasonable lengths of time and squeezing into jam jar sized spaces . |
| 3 | She was n't so sure about her safety when it came to other things . |
| 4 | When it came to other people , particularly men , she preferred to be in control . |
| 5 | When it came to new furnishings , people usually they found it difficult to say why apart from ‘ I got it because I liked it ’ , or ‘ I got it because it was cheap ’ . |
| 6 | Built in the days when the knocker-up came to each house to wake the workers , miners could chalk the times of their shifts on the slates so that the knocker-up could let them sleep if they were not due for work when he came by . |
| 7 | It has its disadvantages in one 's daily life , and I remember now that I described this in At Mrs L 's — how Julia was like that and her family found it tiring and annoying , because she came to everything freshly and without preconceived opinions , and wasted time and came to odd conclusions because nothing was taken for granted . |
| 8 | But when she came to one edge of the paving slabs … she tripped and fell ; and it was common ground that there was a difference in height between the concrete and the paving slab of an inch and a half … |
| 9 | Quite funny in the shop , erm it came to one pound ninety two which is the usual price |
| 10 | When we did it fairly roughly , it came to one point two ? |
| 11 | According to preliminary UN estimates , the total food aid requirement for the region came to 3,800,000 tonnes , the highest estimate ever made , surpassing by far the average requirement of 1,400,000 tonnes in each of the three years 1987 , 1988 and 1989 . |
| 12 | In addition , many schools were failing ‘ to venture beyond undemanding popular authors or books associated with favourite television characters ’ when it came to encouraging children to read novels . |
| 13 | And every time I came to that bit I jerked up in my chair and Miss Ross shouted at me . |
| 14 | But as he passed the crossroads and came to that part of the road that wound down into Chesney he could n't help recalling the man he had seen skipping among the trees . |
| 15 | In Washington , Watson and his wife took lunch with President and Mrs Cleveland who later came to that night 's lecture . |
| 16 | The chief target we came to that night was a staging post for enemy convoys along the route . |
| 17 | It was while teaching a form called ‘ the sink ’ — the exam failures and the less bright — that he came to that perception which all good teachers share : to inspire pupils you have first to gain their attention and one of the best ways of doing that is through humour and anecdote . |
| 18 | They came to that conclusion on the grounds that it appeared to them to be a tenable meaning of the words and in accordance with what they thought to be the policy of the Act of 1914 as to jurisdiction . |
| 19 | I came to that conclusion at that time |
| 20 | Homeless people got off trains at Euston , King 's Cross and Paddington and came to that area . |
| 21 | ‘ We came to that point in our school career when we had to study a foreign language . |
| 22 | When the right hon. Gentleman came to that office , he had the opportunity to grasp the nettle of prison reform . |
| 23 | Similarly , Mr Yeltsin , like Mr Gorbachev , was born into a peasant family during the calamitous 1930s and came to political maturity during the first days of Khrushchev , when hope began to dawn after Stalin 's long night . |
| 24 | He came to political maturity when the world was wrecked ; he sees himself as a man who can put back together what others have broken . |
| 25 | By the 1640s , when he came to political prominence , he was a leading member of the Goldsmiths ' Company and a successful banker and financier . |
| 26 | The Frizzell sons-in-law might wear halos , but when it came to financial success they were nowhere . |
| 27 | Though after 1870 all forms of modernism were condemned within the Roman Catholic Church , and St G. Mivart ( who had shown sympathies with Darwinism ) was excommunicated , other churches and parties came to various degrees of accommodation with contemporary thought . |
| 28 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 29 | Gaston 70 came to similar conclusions in a study of peer review , although he cautioned that the relationship between productivity and recognition is not straightforward . |
| 30 | Gaston came to similar conclusions in a study of peer review , although he cautioned that the relationship between productivity and recognition is not straightforward . |