Example sentences of "[prep] coming to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After coming to a stop with the glider facing into wind , holding the tail down is the worst possible thing , and even leaving the nose unattended for a few moments is dangerous . |
| 2 | COYHAIQUE , Chile ( AFP ) — President Pinochet said he has decided to abolish the secret police which he established 16 years ago , shortly after coming to power . |
| 3 | Mr Ahmet Koc , aged 34 , told the General Medical Council 's professional conduct committee in London that after coming to England with the promise of employment last year , he had first been taken to the surgery of Dr Raymond Crockett for what he believed to be a medical examination for a job . |
| 4 | Mr Ahmet Koc , aged 34 , told the General Medical Council 's professional conduct committee in London that after coming to England with the promise of employment last year , he had first been taken to the surgery of Dr Raymond Crockett for what he believed to be a medical examination for a job . |
| 5 | The membership ban would make sense if it was Labour Party policy to expel Northern Ireland from the UK immediately after coming to power . |
| 6 | In 1867 , nearly twenty years after coming to the throne of Austria , Francis Joseph was crowned here by that same Count Andrássy who , in the aftermath of 1848 , he had sentenced to death . |
| 7 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 8 | Soon after coming to power , the Arena government instituted a new round of ‘ stabilization ’ measures in 1989 , including privatizations , currency devaluation and price hikes , particularly for public transport , which provoked a wave of popular discontent . |
| 9 | Music mogul Richard Branson was increasingly disillusioned with his company 's rating in the eyes of the City after coming to the market in 1985 . |
| 10 | Something permanent had clearly been created in Virginia and , shortly after coming to the throne in 1625 , Charles I did what he could to stabilize the situation by declaring it a royal colony and taking into his own hands the power to appoint the governor . |
| 11 | Although throughout the crisis Alexander III had expressed his contempt for any concessions to appease the government 's critics , for some two months after coming to the throne he hesitated to reverse official policy . |
| 12 | After coming to Jesus , Justin said he wanted ‘ to be holy , to be sincere . |
| 13 | It was n't for many weeks after coming to Chesney that Peach ventured out . |
| 14 | a customer comes in and he was my wife I did n't have er beard then I was clean-shaven , because after coming to this country when I could n't get a job , I thought that this might be a bar so , which was n't right , but we did it . |
| 15 | V. P. Singh " s minority Janata Dal government collapsed in November 1990 , only 11 months after coming to power . |
| 16 | While the older families derived their wealth from trade , the newer ones drew it more from investment in property , after coming to prominence initially through service to the Crown , as controllers of customs or victuallers for armies , or by serving as town clerk . |
| 17 | Pemberton only 2 bookings away from suspension after coming to leeds with 8 points ( One of the bookings being against leeds at elland rd ) and picking up bookings in his first two games . |
| 18 | For those who do not have much real competence in other languages , there is the possibility of coming to terms with poems in the older , more remote forms of English . |
| 19 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
| 20 | Such a view helped trade union leaders to think in terms of coming to some type of arrangement with industrialists who were feeling the pinch of economic policy . |
| 21 | The SD agency in Würzburg even reported criticism of the fanaticism shown by Hitler and Göring which dispelled any hope of coming to terms with the enemy and meant the continuation on all sides of the ‘ war of annihilation ’ . |
| 22 | But there is a sense in which a rehearsal is the process of coming to terms with a great resistance . |
| 23 | In the '80s Scottish football was confronted with the monumental task of coming to terms with a new financial era . |
| 24 | His only real chance of coming to grief was that of being struck by a stray round-shot , an unlikely mishap , for they sank as soon as they landed . |
| 25 | Terry was , originally at least , a wing-half who had captured the eye of manager Cyril Spiers , and , after a season ( 1955–56 ) of coming to maturity and settling down to the demands of League football , he put together a run of 214 consecutive League appearances ( 234 with major Cup competitions ) which was a club record at the time and has only once been exceeded by the great John Jackson . |
| 26 | It is Philistine not to see that a fact and a theory , simple components of tenuous knowledge , are a way not necessarily of controlling nature , but of coming to terms with it , of playing homage ; science is less arrogant in many ways than the arts of landscape or of poetising , mainly because it is content to describe the world as it is . |
| 27 | Quite apart from the practical problems of care , the family is faced with the sadness of coming to terms with change in a person they have known and probably loved all their life . |
| 28 | Miss Harder even refused the offer of financial assistance , in case it led to another child losing his chance of coming to Britain . |
| 29 | The recession shows definite signs of coming to an end . ’ |
| 30 | I 've had the pleasure of coming to England before . |