Example sentences of "first come to [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr. F.J. Norris , the Head of Modern Languages , had first come to the School , on teaching practice , in 1933 , and returned in January 1934 as Form Master of Junior A. He soon moved up into the Senior School .
2 When Daine had first come to the City , he had — I knew for a fact — taken over a large proportion of the vice business that had been run by Paul Muni , a mobster whose empire had fallen thanks mainly to the investigative efforts and single-mindedness of — you guessed it — criminologist Claude Rains .
3 He remembered how Minch had spoken to him like this when he had first come to the Cages .
4 When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child .
5 Now that he was a man he was no more capable of working unsupervised than when he had first come to the farm at the age of twelve .
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