Example sentences of "came [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 2 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 3 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 4 | The firemen who came to put out the fire had a narrow escape when the roof fell in as they were working inside the building . |
| 5 | Neil Pascoe says he 's always wanted to cycle from John 0 Groats to Lands End and then the idea came to run up the three peaks and swim the lakes and try to raise money for charity … |
| 6 | Sometimes even in fights , throwing stones and other things against the security forces who came to break up the picket lines or arrest the trade union leaders . |
| 7 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 8 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 9 | More generally , any laissez faire connection helps very little in understanding how Darwin came to take up the problems his theorizing was to solve . |
| 10 | When Jarvis came to take over the house , although a good many people had been inside it and others had lived in it , the chair and the stool were still in the bellringer 's room . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , working class women could still filter out useful information from a visit to a School for Mothers , and as the local authorities increasingly came to take over the Schools and Babies ' Welcomes and turn them into infant welfare centres , so they became more acceptable to working class women . |
| 12 | At the same time , in some towns at least , bishops came to take over the duties of such late Roman officers as the defensores , who had been expected to defend the weak . |
| 13 | And then there Further up the glen from me , from our , house there 's a place called Dalnasnecht It 's a little place in the beside the water and beyond it there 's a great piece of ground on the hill and it was called er Argyll 's Reed where Argy Where all Where Argyll 's men stayed when they came to burn down the bonny house early , Forter Castle . |