Example sentences of "he come to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That year he came to Europe by boat as a roving correspondent and covered several large conferences . |
| 32 | One of these , which you can go round , is known now as the Maison Louis XIV , because that remarkable king lodged there in 1660 when he came to Saint-Jean to be married to Maria Theresa , the Infant a of Spain ( the bride stayed across the road in a charming pink brick and stone house known ever since as the Maison de l'lnfante ) . |
| 33 | Gregory says he was the son of a slave and that he came to prominence in the household of king Charibert , whence he was promoted to being comes of Tours . |
| 34 | He came to prominence in the early 50s and has become the best-known member of the ‘ kitchen sink school ’ of realist painters . |
| 35 | Chapman had first appreciated the crowd-pulling potential of a station practically on Arsenal 's doorstep , giving the club a quick connection with most parts of the capital , when he came to Highbury as the visiting manager of Leeds City in 1913 , and it now fired his imagination . |
| 36 | He came to Louth from Switzerland in 1875 to teach the French and German at King Edward School . |
| 37 | Thirteen years as auxiliary Bishop in one of the largest diocese in England provided a wealth of experience and opportunities for reflection which Bishop Augustine Harris brought with him when he came to Middlesbrough in November 1978 , as the fifth bishop of the diocese , in succession to the late Bishop John . |
| 38 | But Mr Clinton had an additional burden ; he came to power at what would have been a singularly difficult moment for any American president . |
| 39 | A soldier of mixed Visigothic and Suevic extraction , he came to power under Avitus , was responsible for his fall , and was effectively involved in the appointment of all the western emperors to hold office between 457 and his own death in 472 . |
| 40 | By the time he came to power in 1951 he was already seventy . |
| 41 | Hundreds of thousands of people were marshalled in a national celebration designed to reinforce the personality cult constructed around Kim since he came to power in 1946 . |
| 42 | The Brotherhood was suppressed by Nasser when he came to power in the 1950s , as it had been by his predecessors . |
| 43 | But he said all had been totally dismantled since he came to power in 1989 and all South African nuclear facilities were open to scrutiny by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , whose inspectors were in the country at the moment . |
| 44 | Oh well he came to Llaneilian to be a sexton of the church . |
| 45 | But all the indirect evidence , including the records of his reading in such writers on generation as Erasmus Darwin , Johannes Müller and Giorgio Gallesio , makes it most probable that he came to pangenesis in such a revision of his 1838 position , and that he did so in the years 1840–1 . |
| 46 | There he came to terms with Clovis and became tributary to him . |
| 47 | It is obviously a ridiculous state of affairs and the national coach found himself asking two pertinent questions as he came to terms with loss on a farcical scale . |
| 48 | He came to Stamford after the First World War and lived in the town during the 1920s at no. 20 St. George 's Square . |
| 49 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 50 | In his own Lake District Guide Book he says he came to Ambleside in 1809 , where ‘ he took a House opposite the White Lion ’ , and the etching showing his garden gate looking up to the Market Cross in its original position seems to support this site ; but the date is clearly wrong . |
| 51 | He came to Tom as a last , desperate resort . |
| 52 | He came to Rangers from Monaco half-fit . |
| 53 | He came to Madeira in 1838 for health reasons and in 1841 married the daughter of Robert Wallas , a wine-shipper and steam-driven flourmill owner . |
| 54 | He came to Teesside from Newcastle where he ran a fine art print workshop . |
| 55 | One project that Warnke has had in mind since he came to Hamburg in 1982 , has been finding more space for the art history department , and to this end he has had his eye on the former Warburg house with its famous oval reading room , conceived by Aby Warburg and opened to readers in 1926 , one year after his death . |
| 56 | He came to Vienna for our performances of Oedipus rex ; he was the Narrator . |
| 57 | Early in 1159 Henry II travelled south through Poitou and Saintonge until he came to Blaye on the Gironde . |
| 58 | Yes oh I ee I , I 'm led to understand that he , he built that church and I 'm led to understand that at the same time he started , he came as a curate to St Matthew 's and then he came to Street into a house and he had a little , he started a little church down there in a private house and then he built the church . |
| 59 | But if he lied , saying that he came to Parfois with no felonious intent , and attacked only when he was surprised and frightened , Isambard would have won a better victory . |
| 60 | His love-hate relationship with reporters made headlines , especially when he came to blows with a columnist in a nightclub . |