Example sentences of "come [adv] [adv] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 2 | The young Fusiliers had been patriotically offered up for the politicians ' errors ; they had even been bullied by the militant women brandishing their white feathers , and they went cheering , singing , promising to come home victoriously to the grime and love of their Lancashire womb . |
| 3 | However , Mr Murdoch has come dangerously close to an edge over which other debt-happy Australian entrepreneurs have already tumbled . |
| 4 | The sounds had come far away to the right . |
| 5 | This is done to allow them time to come back gradually to a state of full alertness without any sense of shock — but it would be just as effective if I were to snap my fingers or even simply to tell them to ‘ wake up ’ . |
| 6 | Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality . |
| 7 | Only two days after meeting Julie by the Serpentine in Hyde Park matters had come very quickly to a head . |
| 8 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 9 | These events eventually made plain to Gandhi the existence in both official and unofficial circles of a section of British public opinion which he could not hope to convert , though he came most reluctantly to an acknowledgement of this fact . |
| 10 | Those of you who trained under a very autocratic system , dominated by a strictly imposed hierarchy where nurses came somewhere close to the bottom of the pyramid , are likely to find the concept of accountability quite daunting . |
| 11 | Pat and Steve came rather unexpectedly to the hotel trade after sixteen years in the Royal Air Force-Steve as a pilot , and Pat as an education and administrative officer . |
| 12 | As they came rather close to the dash , they had extra stringers above the normal ones , to protect passengers mounting the stairs from passing traffic . |
| 13 | A few weeks after his escape from a film disaster , Dustin came shatteringly close to a disaster of a more fatal kind . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I came back here to the apartment and Rico 's not home . |
| 15 | He came back smartly to the office and the desk on which he was leaning . |
| 16 | The metaphor of war came as naturally to the lips of men who discussed their ‘ struggle for existence ’ or the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , as the metaphor of peace came to them when they described the home : ‘ the dwelling place of joy ’ , the place where ‘ the satisfied ambition of the heart rejoiced ’ , as it could never rejoice outside , since it could never be satisfied , or afford to admit itself satisfied . |
| 17 | They were standing side by side now , and came forward together to the car , and although Jim Gordon had not got his hand on Steve 's shoulder , Rose got the distinct impression he might have had . |
| 18 | The Inspector who reported on that Litchfield city local plan said , go away , leave your Litchfield city plan and look at the options beyond the greenbelt , including erm the possibility of a new village , and I think that 's that 's the point here , instead of rolling back the greenbelt you should be looking beyond , you know , what is the general extent of the greenbelt to see what options are available , just coming on then to the size point , again that Mr Grantham raised , I have through erm experience both in the Cambridge situation which I referred to extensively erm in my statement , and in East Staffordshire where we are promoting a plan , er a site for a new village which is included in the deposited plan , we 've looked in both the Cambridge and the er East Staffordshire situation , bo at service provision , both from speaking to the providers of those services and whether or not they need a specific facility in the settlement , and from the developers point of view , that if you 've got a pot of money what can you afford to erm provide within a settlement of that size , and the conclusions we are rai er sort of reaching are a du a settlement of the order of twelve fifty dwellings can support your primary school , community centre , erm a range of shops , and so on and so forth , so what I 'm saying in my submission that the an appropriate size is in the thousand fifteen hundred mark , is that were you can get a reasonable co balance of community facilities and provide the relevant infrastructure in terms of services . |
| 19 | Winter was coming in slowly to the North East of Scotland . |
| 20 | Raymond Radiguet was a youth of 12 when Modigliani painted him , a brilliant schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a Paris Lycée and began coming in daily to the city from the suburbs . |
| 21 | ‘ Sally was dad 's lynch-pin and her death was a great shock , especially coming so close to the loss of my mum . |
| 22 | … particular care must be taken before stigmatising a decision as one at which no reasonable person could have arrived , for this is coming dangerously close to the court substituting its own discretion for that of the tribunal . |
| 23 | ‘ Certainly , madam , ’ I said , coming back abruptly to the matter in hand and , realizing with a shock that she had already asked me once , I fetched her a knife fast . |
| 24 | However , the Glasgow profile , with a peak age range of 20–24 years , does come much closer to the Wirral peak range of 18–22 years . |
| 25 | But I 'll come up here to the post office this evening , and call you again . ’ |
| 26 | These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from . |
| 27 | Did the did the gentry come fairly frequently to the estate ? |
| 28 | Self-important democratic politicians who have been themselves well-treated by tyrants of all stripes come dangerously close to the stance of classic fellow-travellers like George Bernard Shaw — in Shaw 's words , as seven million starved to death in Russia in 1932 , ‘ I have never eaten so well . ’ |
| 29 | We come then inevitably to the question as to whether or not there is a pattern , cyclic or otherwise , in this record . |
| 30 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |