Example sentences of "[conj] i came [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That 's because I came to live here .
2 I heard about them long before I came to live here .
3 It was a considerable while before I came to know more Tory politicians and acted as an adviser , not to the party , but to a great many Tories .
4 When I came to train properly I was already aware of the professional background .
5 Everything was perfect except that when I came to train experimentally naive monkeys , I discovered that they did not like peanuts .
6 ‘ I signed a contract when I came to work here .
7 My personal and spiritual growth expanded into every area of my life , twenty-four hours a day , seven days a week , as I came to live more consciously in each and every moment — knowing that I had created that moment , and that it was an opportunity to grow .
8 And , as I came to discover later , a genuine feel for a story .
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