Example sentences of "[pers pn] come to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It took a long time for me to come to terms with the whole mistletoe thing . |
| 2 | It was after ten o'clock when I came to consciousness of the world about me again . |
| 3 | The patient had been living before she came to London on the outskirts of a town in Bangladesh . |
| 4 | She came to Salzburg to the festival but refused to let anyone put themselves out for her ; I was enormously impressed by how kind and unassuming she was . |
| 5 | The mother was far from satisfied with this approach and she was cross during the course of the hearing , I am told , and evidently decided to take the law in her own hands and on 3 July she came to England with the child and she has been here ever since . |
| 6 | I believe that was the reason she came to England with the Wingfields . ’ |
| 7 | J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. , 1972 ) she tells of her first meeting with the composer , of his influence on her technique and interpretation , of how she came to terms with the music , of Plante and other virtuosi , and gives a detailed analysis of various pieces . |
| 8 | It emerged that he was not a match for her strength , ability and intelligence and , in time , she came to terms with the reality that she was better off without him . |
| 9 | She came to terms with the computerized till , which often she had to deal with . |
| 10 | Rhoda said when she came to tea at the weekend , ‘ You only remember what you want to remember , Ken ; serve you right . |
| 11 | Could she come to terms with the fact that Medoc , the evil , cruel Lord of the Dark Ireland had sired her and Fergus ? |
| 12 | Could she come to terms with the knowledge that they had been conceived in that dreadful place ? |
| 13 | Better still , an honest appraisal of yourself standing naked in front of a full-length mirror will help you come to terms with the frame you have and everything you are aiming to achieve . |
| 14 | Importantly , they may in fact be helping you come to terms with the traumatic experience . |
| 15 | But what is it like to face Immigration Officers when you come to Britain for the first time , not knowing the language , uncertain about the future ? |
| 16 | And then you come to Rochester at the end erm oh well , I mean , without finding quotations erm he is the synthesis is n't it ? |
| 17 | ‘ We could be happy together , once you come to terms with the fact that marriage is n't on my agenda . ’ |
| 18 | And Mrs Moore said : ‘ We felt it important to keep the matter private while we came to terms with the situation . ’ |
| 19 | I remember we came to blows over the Queen Mother thing . |
| 20 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 21 | In this situation he asks , how do we come to terms with the event , with continuities and discontinuities , in short with history as difference and not just the story of sameness ? |
| 22 | Once we come to terms with the very limited although crucial place of analytic thinking among the varieties of intelligent behaviour , we draw from ‘ Be aware ’ the corollary ‘ Reason as much as and no more than will assist awareness ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ As we come to grips with the communication process , we comprehend the human being . |
| 24 | Her sister 's illness had taken its toll on her looks and they had all spent some very traumatic moments helping her to come to terms with the debilitating condition which had now rendered her legs virtually useless . |
| 25 | They came to Worcester from the headquarters of King Charles the Second to escort the city 's mayor to London . |
| 26 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 27 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 28 | They came to Anoch in the early afternoon , having to break their journey early , because the opportunities for food and lodging were not evenly distributed between Fort Augustus and Glenelg : Johnson says , ‘ the only house , where we could be entertained , was not further off than a third of the way ’ . |
| 29 | Whenever they came to meetings at the department they sat at opposite ends of the table . |
| 30 | If only , she thought , there was a way to help him come to terms with the rage that had coloured his whole life . |