Example sentences of "come [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sayer has come to work as a laboratory assistant but he 's drawn to a group of patients scattered throughout the hospital . |
| 2 | Therefore , it is against that back-cloth , that I respond to these orchestrated criticisms and express my views on the man I have come to know as a friend and a very good colleague . |
| 3 | Oh I was c come come for a holiday . |
| 4 | Sampson , like many others , had come looking for a kill before the numbers fell . |
| 5 | Hyman hustled him into a car and , having come prepared with a flask , poured coffee into him as they drove to the studio . |
| 6 | He had come equipped with a bottle of white wine , pâté , French bread and fruit . |
| 7 | It was certainly not what undergraduates at Oxford had come to expect from a lecturer . |
| 8 | On the 27 January 1991 Siad Barré fled the country , and the clans embarked on the intractable conflict which has come to look like a nation intent on destroying itself . |
| 9 | Fundamentally , many regard the ‘ conflict ’ over housing as an extension of the major divisions in society and argue that the allocation of housing is determined largely by the power that each group has come to possess in a society with a long history of class conflict ( Haddon 1970 ; Duncan 1976 ; Mellor 1977 ) . |
| 10 | The chapter has come to rest with a description of the currently established , liberal-democratic , constitutional theory — a theory which argues that the constitution provides for a system of Cabinet or prime ministerial government within a larger parliamentary democracy in which Parliament is legally sovereign and the people are politically sovereign . |
| 11 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 12 | Simone was a wealthy French Canadian girl who had come to live with an aunt in Paris . |
| 13 | Half by desipience , half by proclivity , he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming . |
| 14 | Many churches in the West , however , have come to depend upon an organ or other instrument to lead , support , or even dominate , the use of voices . |