Example sentences of "came [to-vb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Painfully — for no work cost him more or perhaps as much as this one — Dostoevsky came to see that The Possessed was n't a sideshow . |
| 2 | Upon examining the issue for himself , Richard Baxter came to see that the episcopal system , as then constituted , was ‘ guilty of corrupting both churches and clergy ’ . |
| 3 | He continues : ‘ I started off putting all sorts of things into the first rough attempts , birds in one , Greek columns in another , Victorian oil lamps ; I even tried buildings and finally helicopters and an aeroplane , but gradually came to see that the designs were hopelessly confused . ’ |
| 4 | For their part , although the die-hard aristocratic opponents of change were desperately anxious about opening the floodgates , they nevertheless came to see that the price of resistance was becoming too high and might even bring disaster and revolution . |
| 5 | I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error . |
| 6 | I just came to see if the coffee was ready for me to take up to Papa . |
| 7 | But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively . |
| 8 | In later years Chapman came to realize that the extension of the league system was having a bad effect on the game . |
| 9 | I came to realize that the twilight world actually existed unseen , but in parallel , with everyone else 's world . |
| 10 | During his first term , Reagan and his staff eventually developed a better appreciation of the merits and responsibilities of legislators and came to realize that the making of policy required the executive branch to ‘ bargain with , cajole and otherwise court the legislative branch ’ . |
| 11 | With the economic recession of 1970–1 , corporate managers came to realize that the form of long-term planning that they were conducting , based often on relatively straightforward projections of past growth , did not ensure corporate success . |
| 12 | As the death of the Smiths was mourned , it came to pass that The Wedding Present rightfully took over their mantle . |
| 13 | Gossip in Mother Russell 's had it that they 'd made their fortune by some prize , for there were one or two men in Harry Pascoe 's crew who thought they had seen strange goings on close inshore under the Gribbin the previous October ; but these would not be drawn further , and although it was never put into so many words , people came to accept that the source of Harry Pascoe 's wealth was not a safe subject for public discussion . |
| 14 | the ants came to know that the presence of this particular human was not harmful . |
| 15 | Breakfast was not yet over at the curator 's house when Orrie came to announce that the police were in occupation , and beginning to stake out the ground . |
| 16 | He and Warnie , for example , had decided that they would erect a memorial window to their parents in St Mark 's , but it was a decision they quickly came to regret when the Lewis , Hamilton and Ewart cousins all weighed in with suggestions of what should go into the window . |
| 17 | When petitions from such families found their way into the Chancery with some frequency , the Chancellor came to recognise that the conscience of the grantee was bound … |
| 18 | As an adult , this woman came to understand that the fairy tale had helped her greatly in throwing off her dependence on her brother , as it had convinced her that an early dependence on him need not interfere with her later ascendancy . |
| 19 | It was only much later that she came to understand that the place was in its infancy . |
| 20 | He had begun to feel that he was persecuted by devils , and eventually came to believe that the Egyptian god Osiris controlled his will . |
| 21 | We had moved to the edges of our previously closed system of thought and action , both physically and philosophically , and almost implicitly came to recognize that the ‘ foundation metaphors ’ which Turner identifies as being crucial to transformational experience of liminality were making paradigmatic statements about our own cultural format ; although I know we would have been unable to articulate this . |
| 22 | In the first few months of independence the Poles came to realise that the lower reaches of the Vistula waterway — their economic lifeline to the coast — had in fact been badly neglected by the Germans . |
| 23 | Not just unmetrical poets like Pound ( for the most part ) and Bunting , but also a strictly metrical poet like the later Yvor Winters , came to think that the finest auditory effects in English-language verse were attained by those poets who attended to the quantitative elements in British or American speech as an incalculable dimension super-added to the recognized and calculable dimensions of syllable-count and stresscount . |
| 24 | As I discussed the history of changes in prisons with officials or ex-officials of TDC , or colleagues at the Criminal Justice Center , I came to think that the most logical order in which to look at the contemporary response to the questions that Howard raised was not the same as that which he followed in those chapters . |
| 25 | We came to think that the two features were of the same date , as there was no construction trench cut into the rampart front for the insertion of the wall . |
| 26 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 27 | But the teams came to learn that the spirit of international co-operation is one thing , the spirit of competition is another . |
| 28 | Anger gave her the strength to pack her few belongings and by the time Ellen — red-eyed and in tears — came to say that the conveyance was at the door , there was no sign left that Ruth had ever inhabited the room . |
| 29 | He was wondering whether he ought to start going through the clothes at once , or wait for Sergeant Burgess , when an attendant came to say that the sergeant had arrived . |
| 30 | It could be the case that version A was perceived as a radically sceptical play and that the B version later came to dominate because the authorities were unhappy with the other version which more manifestly challenged orthodoxies . |