Example sentences of "come to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may forever want confidence that we have come to the ultimate facts about some physical process . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've come to the best club in the country and won . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've come to the best club in the country and won . |
| 4 | It was the closest we had come to the outside world in nearly four months yet they were responsible for the oil which glossed the harbour and had killed the coral . |
| 5 | He knew he had come to the right person . |
| 6 | They had come to the right guy ! |
| 7 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 8 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 9 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've come to the right place , then , ‘ she said cheerfully , leading the way inside . |
| 11 | ‘ I have come to the right place , have I ? |
| 12 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
| 13 | ‘ If you 're looking for trouble you 've definitely come to the right place , ’ said actor Christian Slater , host of the three-hour awards show telecast on the cable network from Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 14 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
| 15 | ‘ I am come to the right house , then , ’ Theda retorted . |
| 16 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
| 17 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 18 | Women are gentler , softer , cleaner , altogether nicer things and I , who always considered myself one of the boys , had come to the surprising conclusion that the companion I Wanted most was a woman . |
| 19 | I had seen the island where time begins , and had come to the sorry realization that the Pacific , the vastest of all oceans , is a far more complicated entity — if indeed it could ever be regarded as such — than it was possible to imagine . |
| 20 | Forced to examine the situation anew , I have come to the following conclusions : |
| 21 | The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled . |
| 22 | Wdowczyk , after only four competitive matches , looks one of the best players to have come to the Premier Division in years . |
| 23 | A nice enough chap and he was knowledgeable in theory you see , but when it come to the practical experience and the practical doing of the work , he would just say , Well what did you do the last time Jimmy ? |
| 24 | In music for court entertainments , masques and dramatic intermedii , a group of Florentine musicians influenced by a learned Humanist , Girolamo Mei , who had come to the correct conclusion that ancient Greek music had been monodic , mixed madrigals with a new kind of monody in ‘ another way of singing than the usual ’ ( un altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ) . |
| 25 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |
| 26 | Following by instinct , following the trail of mind and memory that he had left , she had surely and with great purpose come to the final place of Harry 's death |
| 27 | Travelling by no track , I have come to the sorrowless land . |
| 28 | So we are very honoured that Mr Austin has bred a rose just for us — a perfect beauty , the closest he has ever come to the old Alba rose , beloved of Redouté , and going back 2,000 years beyond him . |
| 29 | It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people . |
| 30 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |