Example sentences of "[pers pn] came to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And every time I came to that bit I jerked up in my chair and Miss Ross shouted at me . |
| 2 | I came to that conclusion at that time |
| 3 | I can not give over any of the powers that I , as a Member of Parliament , elected by the citizens of Aldridge-Brownhills — and each of us elected by our respective constituents — was given when I came to this Parliament . |
| 4 | Last week I came to this school to discuss the course with the Head . |
| 5 | But when I came to this country … |
| 6 | As a youngster — I was twelve when I came to this country — I imagined it was only temporary . |
| 7 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Lord , I came to this world by accident . |
| 9 | Is the Minister aware that , before I came to this place , I served for many years on a local authority as chairman of the environmental health committee , which had a wonderful section for meat inspection ? |
| 10 | He says , you know when I came to this house I had to have split all my furniture into little bits so I could get it up the stairs . |
| 11 | I had no intention of marrying early when I came to this town . |
| 12 | ‘ I know all that , ’ I began to feel angry and frustrated , ‘ but Goddammit , the only reason I came to this island was because of my interest in polio . |
| 13 | It just so happens that , before I came to this debate this morning , I was flicking through a pile of press cuttings when I came across one from The Journal ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) , a north-eastern regional newspaper . |
| 14 | I came to this conclusion after being asked by a student for some information on Occitan . |
| 15 | If you came to this country after 1948 as an adult , your working life still started at 16 , so you will probably have a reduced pension . |
| 16 | Not till you came to this barrier did you realise that you were in a cage , reinforced to contain humans . |
| 17 | As her father had so often complained , to engage with this task was to enter a labyrinth , and it seemed that whichever way she turned she came to this impasse . |
| 18 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 19 | The chief target we came to that night was a staging post for enemy convoys along the route . |
| 20 | ‘ We came to that point in our school career when we had to study a foreign language . |
| 21 | A little way on we came to another village , where some of the evicted had been taken in and given shelter . |
| 22 | He came to see me in our hotel the night before we came to this country , and … |
| 23 | ‘ We came to this bar some days , ’ says Carl , laughing . |
| 24 | IEA Chairman Geoffrey Chipperfield said that " we came to this conclusion to calm the market … and in the event of a breakout of hostilities , … [ to ] assure a security of supply " . |
| 25 | They came to that conclusion on the grounds that it appeared to them to be a tenable meaning of the words and in accordance with what they thought to be the policy of the Act of 1914 as to jurisdiction . |
| 26 | ‘ Stephen , ’ Anna asked quietly , ‘ did you go to see Sarah and Hassan in Australia , the night before they came to this country ? ’ |
| 27 | They continued to walk along the corridors of the dungeons , until they came to another stairway . |
| 28 | He brought it up , let it look about as they came to another junction . |
| 29 | It was while teaching a form called ‘ the sink ’ — the exam failures and the less bright — that he came to that perception which all good teachers share : to inspire pupils you have first to gain their attention and one of the best ways of doing that is through humour and anecdote . |
| 30 | Mary Benson recalls Orton Chirwa in Britain 40 years ago when he came to this country to protest against imposition of the Central African Federation : ‘ How vividly one recalls Orton , the slight , bespectacled , amused young lawyer who proved to be an articulate , passionate speaker whose wit enlivened public meetings from London to Edinburgh , while Banda , then a GP in Willesden , embarrassed organisers with his tub-thumping rhetoric — Banda the medical doctor , who was to subject Orton and Vera Chirwa to such extremes of suffering , remaining impervious to every appeal and protest on their behalf . |