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 | 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 . |
3 | He knew he had come to the right person . |
4 | They had come to the right guy ! |
5 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
8 | ‘ You 've come to the right place , then , ‘ she said cheerfully , leading the way inside . |
9 | ‘ I have come to the right place , have I ? |
10 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
11 | ‘ 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 . |
12 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
13 | ‘ I am come to the right house , then , ’ Theda retorted . |
14 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
15 | 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 . |
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 | Forced to examine the situation anew , I have come to the following conclusions : |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Wdowczyk , after only four competitive matches , looks one of the best players to have come to the Premier Division in years . |
21 | 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 ? |
22 | 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 ) . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 |
25 | Travelling by no track , I have come to the sorrowless land . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | It is Possible that she might have come to the big city on her own . |
28 | Both parents had come to the open evening and she had been able to talk to them . |
29 | ‘ On the question of whether the material which has been made available is sufficient to justify the initiation of a prosecution against Patrick Ryan he ( Mr Barnes ) has come to the clear conclusion that it is not sufficient for that purpose and that a prosecution would not be justified , ’ the statement said . |
30 | ‘ There is no legal justification whatever ’ , he thundered , ‘ in saying that Meehan was wrongly convicted , and having heard all the evidence in this case , you might well have come to the clear conclusion that he was in fact rightly convicted . ’ |