Example sentences of "[noun prp] come [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mission to invite Edward to come to parliament was prompted by Melton 's protest against condemning the king unheard and unseen ; the sermons of Orleton , Stratford and finally of Reynolds were not the spontaneous initiatives of these prelates , but clearly part of an opportunist programme coordinated by Mortimer and his allies . |
| 2 | Partly as a result , Whitehaven came to prominence in the Virginia tobacco trade during the 1740s , although Lowther had only indirect links with the merchant community . |
| 3 | 685–6 when the pagan Caedwalla came to power , and the southern Saxons under a Christian king , Aethelwealh , but still otherwise largely a pagan people , appear to have been beyond the range of Theodore 's metropolitan power . |
| 4 | In the Soviet Union executive power was virtually supreme until Gorbachev came into office . |
| 5 | When President Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in Moscow in early 1985 , Mr Husak became one of the disoriented old men of Eastern Europe , and when Mr Gorbachev reached Prague , in the spring of 1987 , Mr Husak looked out of his depth . |
| 6 | Nearly six years since Mr Gorbachev came to power , it is still unclear what sort of future he has in mind for the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | The best brains and resources had gone into military research and development until Gorbachev came to power . |
| 8 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 9 | Opposed by Soviet intellectuals such as writer Valentin Rasputin , if was finally dropped when Gorbachev came to power . |
| 10 | I T N obtained an exclusive interview with the K G B in which the Soviet Security Department admitted actually stepping up their activities since President Mikhail Gorbachev came to power . |
| 11 | Since Gorbachev came to power , thirty spies have been arrested in the Soviet Union and all but a few executed . |
| 12 | At ten o'clock on a Sunday morning traffic was almost nonexistent , and as soon as Deirdre came into view Jacob began to cycle towards the bridge . |
| 13 | Will and Deirdre came to supper recently — poor dears it was an uninspired meal but their visit cheered me immeasurably … |
| 14 | GINA WAS INDEED PERFECTLY NICE AND POLITE WHEN ELEANOR came to tea . |
| 15 | Jefferson came to Church youth work with very solid credentials . |
| 16 | By good fortune , not to mention cool-headed driving , neither the deer nor the Mercedes came to grief . |
| 17 | The nearest Hounslow came to scoring was not until the eightieth minute when Keith Hoad headed narrowly wide from a Mark Francis cross . |
| 18 | President François Mitterrand came under attack both from the opposition and from within his own Socialist Party ( PS ) early in September for his ambivalent initial reaction to the Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev ( although he had swiftly reversed this impression in a television appearance two days later ) . |
| 19 | President 's rule in Jammu and Kashmir came into force on July 19 . |
| 20 | Mr Singh came to power in last year 's farcical assembly election by getting the support of no more than 9% of registered voters . |
| 21 | While I was in South Africa , Valerie came to Carewscourt for a holiday . |
| 22 | Friedlander came to prominence through the 1966 exhibition Toward a Social Landscape , which also introduced the work of Garry Winogrand and Duane Michals . |
| 23 | Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto came under pressure from opposition politicians to ask President Ghulam Ishaq Khan to dismiss Sind 's provincial Pakistan Peoples Party ( PPP ) government and impose direct rule from Islamabad . |
| 24 | Afghans , he went on , had been optimistic when Miss Bhutto came to power but she had betrayed all her promises to settle the Afghan conflict . |
| 25 | These abrupt changes of style in the Demoiselles are due to the fact that while he was working on it Picasso came into contact with tribal art . |
| 26 | Emmie pulled at her blouse and Mo came to life . |
| 27 | Eventually , after three days , Ceauşescu came in person . |
| 28 | Distinguished historian and NLSC chairman Lord Briggs explains the thinking behind City Lives : ‘ When the NLSC came into existence , changes were taking place in the City that were of national importance , ’ he says . |
| 29 | After that Travis came to supper regularly . |
| 30 | Mr David Coleridge 's Chairmanship of Lloyds came under criticism from a group of irate Tory MP 's , Michael Jackson followed his trip to Africa with a stay in London during which he spoke with his fans via messages ( eg ‘ I love England with all my heart ’ ) written on pillowcases , dropped from a 14th floor window , and the British Winter Olympic Team returned gongless from Albertville . |