Example sentences of "came to [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1940 he married Rose Paul-Schiff , a Viennese , whose family was connected with the banking firm of Warburg Schiff and came to England just before the Anschluss . |
| 2 | Elizabeth came to Greece again in 1966 . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's the way to do it , ’ said Araminta pleased , as all the puppets came to life again for a curtain call . |
| 4 | Liam came to life again with ‘ 'T IS the last rose of summer … ’ |
| 5 | One of the few lawyers in modern times to have reached the Woolsack other than via membership of the House of Commons and ministerial office , Gardiner was a visionary who came to government late in his career , with the result that his idealism had not been exhausted by previous struggles to get things done . |
| 6 | An Olympic gold medallist in 1960 , Ali came to prominence shortly before his assumption of the world heavyweight title in 1964 . |
| 7 | The Japanese came to Britain partly for low wage-costs and a welcoming government , but mostly because it is in Europe . |
| 8 | Mirpuri and Bangladeshi women came to Britain mainly as a result of immigration control . |
| 9 | I was born in what is now Russia , and when I came to Scotland shortly before the war the small Jewish grocery shops in the Gorbals district of Glasgow were my main link with home . |
| 10 | Now twenty-four , she came to London originally from Gloucestershire , and has only just moved ‘ south of the river ’ to start a new job . |
| 11 | He employed ‘ the Great Brown [ better known as ‘ Capability ’ , who ] … came to Sledmere early in the morning , ’ as the meticulously efficient Sir Christopher recorded on Thursday 18 September 1777 . |
| 12 | Sigibert and Guntram came to blows again in 573 , and the crisis was exacerbated by Chilperic 's attacking Sigibert 's lands south of the Loire . |
| 13 | As he had expected , the sentry came to attention automatically at the suddenly terse voice . |
| 14 | What seemed to me a golden opportunity came to hand largely through Pearn 's connections with the History department in the University , to which he had now returned . |
| 15 | The PBS , which came to power soon after its formation in 1985 , gained most of its support from the mainly Christian Kadazan ethnic group and from the Chinese ; however , the party also made some inroads into what had previously been USNO-controlled Moslem constituencies . |
| 16 | The Bolsheviks came to power not in the relatively peaceful conditions in which policy had been framed , but in conditions of social collapse . |
| 17 | IRISH international Noel Graham , who came to Dublin yesterday in the hope of winning two Irish National championships , goes home today empty-handed . |
| 18 | Georg Schwafenberger 's book The Legality of Nuclear Weapons ( 1958 , pp. 47–9 ) reached conclusions which came to terms more with the by then widespread possession of nuclear weapons . |
| 19 | This explains why British industry , which had never conceived of employing professional consultants to recruit and select executives and managers , came to terms psychologically with the idea of using headhunters . |
| 20 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |