Example sentences of "come to [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although comedy came to him easily in the sense that he seems to have made the class laugh at will from a tender age , it is , like everything else , something that he works at and it annoys him when others fail to do so . |
| 2 | The cough and splutter of an aircraft engine came to her clearly on the still evening air . |
| 3 | Their words came to me only as a series of hoarse gasping noises . |
| 4 | But no cries came to them there on the terrace , the darkness lit by the moon , the bright stars spread like a net across a sky that never lost its blueness , the scented tapers burning between the statuary of the amorous god . |
| 5 | Jan Leeming , seemingly discarded by the BBC , came to us initially as a reporter . |
| 6 | Silence then , the sounds of the port coming to us softly through the night , partially overlaid by the persistent hum of machinery from the freighter moored ahead of us . |
| 7 | Present : Jesus who is very near and comes to us daily in the needs of our brothers and sisters ; where two or three gather in his name ; in the faces of those who show us Christ in joy and pain ; in Word and Sacrament . |