Example sentences of "came to [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various local delegations came to Owen to protest about the invasion of the church . |
| 2 | Architects and craftsmen came to Russia to build the first churches and to share their experience with the Russians . |
| 3 | A highly intelligent and beautiful French television journalist , Christine Ockrent , came to Baghdad to interview him some months before the United Nations deadline for withdrawal from Kuwait . |
| 4 | It was reproduced in the Boston underground paper , and the following year , when Jean Luc Godard came to England to film British Sounds , Rowbotham read it over the soundtrack . |
| 5 | She came to England to stay with a sister , went to acting school in London and through a teacher who knew how to persuade Emlyn Williams , was all but smuggled into The Last Days of Dolwyn as the sixth girl extra ‘ when only five had been budgeted for . |
| 6 | She won the star female part in Batman against competition from almost every actress in the US — but when she came to England to start filming , she had to drop out because of an accident and lost the role to Kim Basinger . |
| 7 | The husband came to England to seek to persuade her to return but did not then succeed . |
| 8 | I asked Michael whether people ever came to England to study music . |
| 9 | It was only in autumn last year that Mr Huang , 41 , came to England to make his home with his wife . |
| 10 | To commemorate the anniversary , the HGO organized a major press junket : critics from all around the opera world came to Houston to interview David Gockley and see three new productions by his company : the world première of a new opera by Robert Moran , the American première of Robert Wilson 's production of Parsifal , and a new version of André Grétry 's Zémire et Azor , billed as the first revival of the opera in the United States since 1794 . |
| 11 | was that it would er have implications in the United Kingdom amounted to some sixty billion and the attorney general came to Luxembourg to tell the court about the dire consequences , er your Lordship raised consequences in the context of an arguments under article five |
| 12 | So much so that a group of shipmasters and merchants came to Seton to suggest that a retaliatory gesture would be in order . |
| 13 | Joseph Thomas , engineer , was born in Roche and came to Looe to retire after a distinguished career . |
| 14 | Shostakovich summed up his colleague 's fatal misconception : ‘ He came to Moscow to teach them and they started teaching him . ’ |
| 15 | After 150 years of Tartar domination Russia was recovering and , since the fall of Constantinople , architects and craftsmen came to Moscow to advise and build Ivan 's now permanent city . |
| 16 | A Japanese television company came to Oxford to make a documentary comparing student life here with that at Harvard . |
| 17 | Bill Clinton came to Oxford to study politics in 1968 . |
| 18 | ‘ Pamela came to LA to find herself — and found Jim Morrison instead , ’ says Ryan . |
| 19 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 20 | The Portuguese came to Brazil to win souls for Christ and to win gold for the king . |
| 21 | The idea for such an ambitious ( but surprisingly nightmare-free ) project was first mooted in 1989 when Professor Dai came to Norwich to attend a post-graduate degree course in tourism . |
| 22 | Leslie 's mother and I visited the family of the corporal from Edinburgh ; and when the mother of a Manchester man came to Edinburgh to stay with friends some time later , we went to see her , too . |
| 23 | The Marshall Plan was supposedly open to all Europeans and in late June Molotov came to Paris to discuss it with the British and French foreign ministers , Ernest Bevin and Georges Bidault . |
| 24 | In 1946 he came to Paris to discuss independence , but he found the French government was determined to restore its authority in all Indochina . |
| 25 | This strategy appeared to receive a boost a week after his conference , when Chancellor Adenauer came to Paris to sign the Franco-German treaty . |
| 26 | Besides , I came to Italy to work . |
| 27 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 28 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 29 | The Israelites were a warrior-race long before the Romans came to Europe to control the barbarians ; a handful of Jewish men , women and children held a whole legion of Roman troops at bay for many months at a place called Massada . |
| 30 | Muller was born in Germany and came to America to study with his compatriot Hans Hofmann . |