Example sentences of "[noun prp] came to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also thinks it is important to build such a museum , as Japan and Britain have a long historical relationship dating back to the seventeenth-century when William Adams came to Japan on a Dutch ship . |
| 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 | ‘ Edward came to Corfe from a hunt , and while his attendants were seeing to the dogs she allured him to her with female blandishment and made him lean forward . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When , for example , Alexander Gordon of Strathdon came to Elgin on 5 November 1539 to bind himself in manrent to George earl of Huntly , promising to serve him in peace and war , give him counsel , and protect him against harm , he was only one of many hundreds of men throughout the country during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries making such an obligation , and thereby creating strong personal relationships based always in theory and normally in reality not just on mutual self-interest but on mutual loyalty and trust . |
| 7 | I smile and drink my champagne , remembering when Andy came to Stirling for Yvonne and William 's party , five years ago . |
| 8 | Elfriede came to England at the age of three and stayed with the Lewis family in Newport , Monmouthshire . |
| 9 | Mauro Ferri came to Easington in 1939 with his mother and brother to visit his sister who had married another Italian , Dennis Donnini , who was a fusilier in the British Army . |
| 10 | However , when Anne Wright came to Sunderland from Merseyside , it was not only the quality of life that impressed , but also the quality of light . |
| 11 | In the year 1733 Prince Rudolf of Ruritania came to England on a visit and he stayed for several months . |
| 12 | Mr Singh came to power in last year 's farcical assembly election by getting the support of no more than 9% of registered voters . |
| 13 | Two days after her husband 's death , Lady Spencer came to Althorp with a roll of red stickers to identify her possessions , the pieces she would be removing to her London home . |
| 14 | While I was in South Africa , Valerie came to Carewscourt for a holiday . |
| 15 | Friedlander came to prominence through the 1966 exhibition Toward a Social Landscape , which also introduced the work of Garry Winogrand and Duane Michals . |
| 16 | A failure against West indies that summer , an under-achiever in New Zealand last winter and a failure against Pakistan last summer , Hick came to India with a Test record of just 307 runs from 11 matches and 17 innings . |
| 17 | President Yoweri Museveni came to power in January 1986 [ see pp. 34536-38 ] at the head of the National Resistance Movement which had waged a guerrilla war since 1981 , first against the regime of President Milton Obote , and subsequently against the military government which deposed Obote in July 1985 . |
| 18 | President Yoweri Museveni came to power in January 1986 [ see pp. 34536-38 ] at the head of the National Resistance Movement which had waged a guerrilla war since 1981 , first against the Obote regime and subsequently against the military government which deposed Obote in July 1985 . |
| 19 | Sarah came to tea on Sunday and when all the younger members of the family were in the parlour afterwards , Anne spoke about the talk of war . |
| 20 | On April 11 the motion , the 11th since Rocard came to power in 1988 , was defeated 289-261 after failing to win the support of the Communist Party ( PCF ) . |
| 21 | Then in 1960 Arthur Andersen came to Japan with the intention of setting up an office and wanting to hire young Japanese CPAs to train in the US before the office was opened . |
| 22 | Martin Fleischmann came to Utah at the turn of the year and , during January in particular , put a lot of effort into the experiments . |
| 23 | When Robertson Nicoll came to England in the 1880s he went to Dawlish where he complained : ‘ Dissent here is nowhere … |
| 24 | It is a striking coincidence that in the same year that Aethelbald came to power among the Mercians , the assassination of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in Northumbria and the accession there of Coenred also broke the entrenched power of the family of Aethelfrith which had dominated the kingship of the northern Angles for more than seventy years ( see below , pp. 47 ff . ) . |
| 25 | Col. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza came to power in a coup in 1976 , and introduced a civilian Constitution ( 1981 ) under which single party elections were held in 1982 , the sole legal party being the Union pour le progrès national ( UPRONA ) . |
| 26 | There , alongside Elsie Oakensen , an amiably ordinary grandmother who told how she was snatched by aliens in Northamptonshire in 1978 , a group of bone fide fruitcakes from the Aetherius Society ( who believe that Jesus and Buddha came to Earth in flying saucers from Venus ) , turned up and did their party turn . |
| 27 | Thoughtful and trenchant , his prolix arguments could often be tiresome , although Thomas Babington Macaulay , first Baron Macaulay [ q.v. ] , thought his attack on the National Board system , in the first debate on the issue when Sir Robert Peel came to power in 1841 , led to ‘ the very best parliamentary set-to between the secretary and the solicitor-general for Ireland which has ever been witnessed ’ . |
| 28 | The new Turkish Government of Suleyman Demirel came to power in October 1991 on a platform which pledged to prevent torture in custody . |
| 29 | This seems to have appealed to the Federal Commission because Mr Zecar came to Zagreb with the same proposition . |
| 30 | But when the Dalai came to Britain in 1991 , the Chinese spat with fury about the visit . |