Example sentences of "[noun] was come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a great regret to me that our partnership was to come to an end . |
| 2 | What was interesting was that , while the hero of the hour was still in a back room , under wraps for the time being like his likeness in oils , the conversation was taking place only inches away from the player whose last-minute goal in ‘ 66 guaranteed that the Jules Rimet trophy was coming to England . |
| 3 | She was more relaxed now , her shoulders less hunched , as if she realised the interview was coming to an end . |
| 4 | By the mid '60s the heyday of the hairy-chested open sports car was coming to an end , surviving only on an uneasy and temporary truce with the law-makers and the environmentalist lobby . |
| 5 | The second is that the British colonial rulers did not genuinely believe in independent , publicly owned public service broadcasting because when in government they made sure that they had full control and tolerated the idea of a corporation only when their rule was coming to an end . |
| 6 | Anthony 's usual animosity was coming to the fore . |
| 7 | Already , it seems , industry was coming to be concentrated on the north side of the Stour — Dedham lies opposite East Bergholt , a booming village — and that the gap was opening which forty-five years later was to be filled by the arrival of the Dutch bringing the techniques of the ‘ New Draperies ’ . |
| 8 | Don Juan refused , but later acquiesced when , in October , Franco presented him with a fait accompli by leaking news that Juan Carlos was to come to Spain to continue his schooling . |
| 9 | We could not claim all the credit for this as our administration was coming to grips with the situation ashore . |
| 10 | My first marriage was coming to an end , but my husband would not leave until I had a permanent job ( so that I could support his children ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Sgt Maj Cross was coming to the end of a three-year-posting with the Royal Army Medical Corps . |
| 12 | As the championship progressed it was fairly obvious that England 's magnificent Grand Slamming run was coming to an end , not because of the passion and pride displayed by Wales and Ireland , but the fact that some of the England veterans are undoubtedly past their shelf life . |
| 13 | But while England was coming to be seen as a reasonably important power after having looked very weak in the middle of the sixteenth century , a more conspicuous change was the emergence of the Netherlands . |
| 14 | Goreng 's superior was coming to the end of his tour of duty . |
| 15 | But it seemed , sir , when first I talked to Mrs Browning , before ever I mentioned my plan , or else I would not have mentioned it , it seemed Ferdinando was to go , that there was no choice , that he was nigh essential to your comfort , and then , having spoken out , to find he was not and therefore he would not go and my plan was to come to nothing — it is hard to understand , sir . ’ |
| 16 | If Nietzsche was to come to terms with a specialized academic career , his need of a compensatory allegiance was extreme . |
| 17 | But his main thoughts lay elsewhere , as he realized that the desert campaign was coming to an end . |
| 18 | The Italian campaign was to come to naught , but in a number of English speaking jurisdictions , reform proposals along very similar lines were implemented before and after it . |
| 19 | At first she thought Angel was coming to her bedroom , and her heart beat wildly with joy . |
| 20 | was disappointed but pleased that the war was coming to an end . |
| 21 | So this job was coming to an end about this time ? |
| 22 | As a result of this , their professional commitment to arms grew : in France , in the second half of the fourteenth century , some esquires ( men on the very fringe of noblesse ) were promoted over the heads of knights , whose numbers in the French army declined anyhow after about 1380 , a suggestion that professionalism was coming to be well regarded . |
| 23 | Ministry of Defence and the centralization of the Defence votes , which were being studied at the same time as the Skybolt/Polaris crisis was coming to a head . |
| 24 | In particular , the mythology was coming to be regarded as history — the first step towards trivialization and eventual nullity . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the campaign in Burma was coming to an end with the virtual extermination of the Japanese forces trying to escape over the Sittang river . |
| 26 | The Merseyside convener was aware that President Nate Cocello was coming to the UK for talks with British and European management . |
| 27 | Her time in Africa was coming to an end . |
| 28 | I sensed that the hon. Gentleman was coming to the conclusion of his speech . |
| 29 | The crowd had thinned , and the day was coming to an end . |
| 30 | An unspoken reason for her attempted escape had also been the growing certainty that this attraction was coming to a head . |