Example sentences of "come [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 2 | ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said . |
| 3 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 4 | Demand is so high that there is bound to be plenty of interest in two new properties in need of some tender loving care which have just come on to the market . |
| 5 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |
| 6 | We must study the gap closely and we must realise that , in many of the homes that have come on to the market , on which there has been significant capital outlay by people moving into the private sector , the costs have escalated because of the massive increase in interest rates . |
| 7 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 8 | Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering . |
| 9 | More than 50 orphaned or injured otters from all over Britain have come in to the trust 's rehabilitation centre in south-west Scotland . |
| 10 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |
| 11 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 12 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 13 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
| 14 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
| 15 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 16 | We 've come down to the wine |
| 17 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
| 18 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 19 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 20 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 21 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
| 22 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
| 23 | ‘ In fact , if you 're not otherwise engaged , why not come along to the wedding with me ? |
| 24 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 25 | The second psychoanalytic message that has come through to the public is its preoccupation with sex . |
| 26 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 27 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 28 | For every complaint that you have there may be 20 dissatisfied people that have n't actually come up to the school to make their feelings known — they do n't even tell you that they are upset . |
| 29 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
| 30 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |