Example sentences of "that [pron] came [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And thus it was , that February evening , that she came to be standing at the top of the monumental sweep of the staircase , under the huge doorway , pausing for a moment , offering tribute to herself and all her gods . |
| 2 | And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death . |
| 3 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 4 | ‘ How does it follow from what you 've said that you came to be — ’ He paused and his lips compressed in a cruelly thin line before he seemed to deliberately force away the tension , saying simply , ‘ To be with my brother ? ’ |
| 5 | Some may have visited the other side , but most have stayed at home living with political , economic and cultural systems that have very little in common except the original reason that they came into being — the biggest war the world had yet seen . |
| 6 | Long after his death The Pilgrim 's Progress so universally found its way into the childhood reading of all classes that it came to be regarded as part of the heritage of all Protestant Churches in the English-speaking world . |
| 7 | Removal of this national vulnerability and dependence on other nations became the prime aim , and so compelling an aim was it that it came to be achieved by fair means or foul . |
| 8 | It is no new thing for pushing tradesmen occasionally to send unsolicited goods to persons in the hope of making a sale , but this practice developed to the extent that it came to be regarded in some quarters as a serious social problem . |
| 9 | As the excluded social forces grew in political strength , so they pressed in on the established constitution in ways which eventually caused it to buckle so that it came to be more in line with their views as to how things should be . |
| 10 | He was fascinated by horses — so fascinated that he came to be called ‘ The Man who Loved to Draw Horses , ’ although he could and did draw a wide range of other domestic animals . |
| 11 | So deep-rooted were his various obsessions and so pronounced his self-importance that he came to be regarded in some quarters as not merely an individualist but something of a crank . |