Example sentences of "come to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think you should come to a personal preview on Sunday afternoon when I shall be there making sure everything is ready for Monday . ’
2 C. Follow Mr and Mrs Spencer on a rope ladder down one of these swallow holes and pipes and you may come to a narrow passage .
3 We feel we 've given you enough evidence sir that you can come to a reasoned decision .
4 Really , his point made — a kind of behave yourself young lad , or you will come to a sticky end — he stood up and wandered back to the bar .
5 In real time , an astronaut who fell into a black hole would come to a sticky end .
6 The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end ; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities .
7 I only 'ope it do n't come to a General Strike , Don .
8 Follow it — it is an Orange Brick Road , which proves how close you can come to a real advertising coup without quite getting it right : I wonder if the café serves 6-Up — and it will lead you to the Great Geysir .
9 However , I feel it is better to dominate all dogs equally and make them come to a submissive position in front of the owner , preferably the down position .
10 Walk north from the car park and you will come to a thriving colony of gannets — the only English colony and Britain 's only mainland one .
11 I believe that 's something that needs to be looked at and if the government were prepared to embark on a review of auditing er generally then that is something that I think there is some useful point in pursuing further er it 's interesting that er er erm when Bingham examined this point at paragraph three er point three nine in his report er he has a long paragraph er discussing these matters and er he says that er he at the end of the day he does n't come to a concluded view er although he does er acknowledge the fact that there are many people er depositors or example , share holders and employees who might have an interest in a particular company .
12 I think all these developments will be painful but could come to a good end : the genetic bad luck of a very few may , eventually , be helped by many in that general health insurance and tough anti-discrimination laws could become reality .
13 We know that a car will come to a grinding halt if we put water in the petrol tank , so no one in their right mind does it !
14 For even taking into account my employer 's generous offer to ‘ foot the bill for the gas ’ , the costs of such a trip might still come to a surprising amount considering such matters as accommodation , meals , and any small snacks I might partake of on my way .
15 ‘ I think I should earn more as the WBC title is recognised as a better class than the WBO but I might come to a 50-50 split . ’
16 A barrage of punches which started with a swinging left hook left Clarkson on one knee and once the action restarted and Hardy picked up the assault , it was clear the fight would come to a quick conclusion .
17 Nonetheless it said that a relatively small licence ( for the code to be implemented for a single architecture , for example ) will still come to a six-figure dollar sum .
18 I hope the current wage negotiations will shortly come to a satisfactory conclusion , ’ said Hartington , adding a warning to owners that they must expect higher training fees to permit lads to be properly paid .
19 I hope the current wage negotiations will shortly come to a satisfactory conclusion , ’ said Hartington , adding a warning to owners that they must expect higher training fees to permit lads to be properly paid .
20 Mercer produced a key and gave it to me , explaining that I would come to a locked door .
21 Will you both come to a little party I 'm planning for next week ?
22 Then there was a strange silence , as if we 'd come to a full stop , as if he 'd expected me to react in some other way .
23 If the new if the new settlement proves successful , it will have an impetus all its own and therefore it will not come to a full stop in two thousand and six .
24 He concludes with a formal oath : ‘ I , the Lord , have spoken ; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me : in this wilderness they shall come to a full end , and there they shall die . ’
25 I believe that it is as close as we can ever come to a universal truth in the history of prisons — that lack of work for prisoners is the greatest cause of indiscipline , unrest and unhappiness among the prisoners .
26 The book begins with the 1950s , when baby manuals indexed ‘ fathers ’ as ‘ for fathers see mothers ’ , and men were ‘ angry ’ , ‘ tough ’ or ‘ queer ’ ; it ends with ‘ a new agenda for the 1990s ’ , described hopefully as a time when men join women in fighting for an end to exploitation of women at work and home , and the ‘ masculinity ’ we have known will come to a timely end .
27 Mungo Stone had the sensation that instead of threading on to the horizon , at any moment the ever-narrowing rails might simply come to a dead end among the trees .
28 She 'd come to a dead end .
29 ; Mij All twelve writers will come to a glitzy show biz type lunch at the Cafe Royal , hosted by David Frost , and that 's where we will know for the first time , who 's , who is the overall winner , the runner-up and the third place writer .
30 If they can come to a binding agreement , the prisoners will both profess their innocence and be sentenced to two years .
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