Example sentences of "i came [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 2 | ‘ I came to look at the gravestone . ’ |
| 3 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 4 | ‘ I used to envisage difficulties when I came to socialise in the Bangor area and would meet pupils . |
| 5 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 6 | Instead I came to work as a layman at the diocesan office . ’ |
| 7 | It was through this work that I came to hear of the case of Dr Ron Carrington , a 35-year-old psychiatrist . |