Example sentences of "came [to-vb] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | His success depended upon the general agreement on atomic weights and formulae which had followed the Karlsruhe Conference of 1860 ; after the conference delegates had read the paper of S. Cannizzaro , and came to agree with its recommendations . |
| 2 | The estate-car reeled drunkenly , shot sideways across the road and oncoming traffic , and came to rest with its bonnet jammed in the sloping grass bank edging the road on the other side . |
| 3 | A curlew called out as it rose above the waters , then came to rest alongside its mate among the rushes . |
| 4 | Frequently a Georgian house which I had always seen from the road and considered to be all of one date , was revealed , when I came to knock on its door , to be purely a façade built on to a much earlier building . |
| 5 | When Parliament in 1733 passed the Molasses Act which tried to help planters in the British West Indies by imposing prohibitive duties on New England 's imports of sugar , rum , and molasses from non-British colonies , the Act was not properly enforced and Americans came to speak of its having been ‘ nullified ’ . |