Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] came to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more , the old iron trucks with their armour plating are still lying rusting beside the old Kubri road just where they came to a halt in 1948 , the wheels stripped of their tyres but their iron bullet shields still intact . |
| 2 | It took the three of them over an hour to reach the bottom of the slope , where they came to a halt . |
| 3 | Once she came to Mansfield Street with the King , and stayed over four hours , arranging and playing with everything , much to the chagrin of a lady in waiting who was kept firmly outside the drawing room ! |
| 4 | ‘ So we came to Cochabamba . |
| 5 | It seems they could not find anyone else to answer the call , so they came to us . ’ |
| 6 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 7 | His death was accidental , but the police would never believe that , and so they came to their terrible decision , to cut the body up and hide it . |
| 8 | Although he came to Parliaments regularly enough , he spent his last twenty years running his diocese with the same competent mediocrity by which he had come by it . |
| 9 | ‘ He loved the work in the yard , and that was taken away from him , so he came to Sakata . |
| 10 | ‘ So he came to you and said can you put me up and you did ? ’ asked an unfeeling Coffin . |
| 11 | watered down the terms so it came to nil . |
| 12 | Of course , these statistics are crude , but they strongly suggest a world in which war may often have seemed prohibitively expensive , especially once it came to be realised that Æthelred 's military operations tended to be unsuccessful . |
| 13 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 14 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 15 | Or , if someone came to me with arthritis of the fingers , I might ask him to ‘ think of your fingers lengthening ’ . |
| 16 | , if someone came to me and |
| 17 | Their veteran prop Kevin Ward commented : ‘ I never knew there was so much intense rivalry between the two clubs until I came to St Helens . |
| 18 | now I thought I knew what that word meant until I came to the assembly . |
| 19 | I went well beyond the carob until I came to strands of wire running through the trees , at the edge of the inland bluff , the eastern limit of Bourani . |
| 20 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 21 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 22 | I never understood until I came to Taipei and we met again , when I started to realise why I 'd always reacted so strongly to you . |
| 23 | Nervously , I moved forward , fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole . |
| 24 | Unconcerned by Peck 's manner , Noah replied , ‘ Nor I of you until I came to Oxfordshire to attend the wedding of my daughter . |
| 25 | I had no idea university politics were so cut-throat until I came to Oxford . |
| 26 | I waded out over the shallows until I came to them , and gathered the ones I could , looking up from my harvest as Esmerelda and kite struck out for the North Sea . |
| 27 | And if somebody came to you with those sorts of things , you 'd think to yourself , it ca n't just go on , and gradually just build up and build up . |
| 28 | Retired have n't they , because if somebody came to you cos you see , he was so upset about it |
| 29 | She read on , about Jesus being born in Bethlehem and about King Herod and did not stop until she came to the line about Rachel weeping for her children . |
| 30 | As soon as she reached the open deer-park she ran , and she hardly paused until she came to the broad track that sloped down to the marsh , smiling and vivid green in the late afternoon sunshine . |