Example sentences of "come to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've come to the best club in the country and won . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've come to the best club in the country and won . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He knew he had come to the right person . |
| 5 | They had come to the right guy ! |
| 6 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've come to the right place , then , ‘ she said cheerfully , leading the way inside . |
| 10 | ‘ I have come to the right place , have I ? |
| 11 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
| 14 | ‘ I am come to the right house , then , ’ Theda retorted . |
| 15 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Wdowczyk , after only four competitive matches , looks one of the best players to have come to the Premier Division in years . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Travelling by no track , I have come to the sorrowless land . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I have come to the same conclusion as many people who find that they have a potentially fatal disease . |
| 27 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 28 | But , as stated in Anderson v. The Queen , at p. 108 , per Lord Guest ‘ in cases of murder great care must be taken to see that there has been no miscarriage of justice ’ and the test , a strict one , has been described in Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1935 ] A.C. 462 , 482–483 , per Viscount Sankey L.C. as whether ‘ if the jury had been properly directed they would have inevitably have come to the same conclusion ’ and in Stirland v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1944 ] A.C. 315 , 312 , per Viscount Simon L.C. , as involving ‘ a situation where a reasonable jury , after being properly directed , would , on the evidence properly admissible , without doubt convict . ’ |
| 29 | It is plain that if the judge had been appraised of all these matters now before the court , he would have come to the same conclusion as we have , namely that the necessary intention had not been proved on the part of the appellants . |
| 30 | I would myself have come to the same conclusion as that which the deputy judge expressed [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 514 , 528 : |