Example sentences of "come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , in 1975 , the wife of one of the prisoners , a former air force pilot , telephoned the young woman 's mother to come to her house quickly . |
| 2 | As for the purchaser , tell him to come to my house and choose another picture — something that both he and I like . |
| 3 | Zuckerman has enabled Roth to deal with the question of the offence he has given to righteous Jews , and to come to terms with the rebellious , psychedelic , philo-Semitic Sixties , when Roth 's writing went , with the times , derisive and fantastic . |
| 4 | Levi 's paints actually manage to come to life as human beings in The Wrench , a less fanciful book which nevertheless claims that ‘ paints resemble us more than they do bricks . |
| 5 | It is likely that a good many protestant loyalists oscillate between the two and still have to come to their moment of decision , one that is likely to be forced on them by future events . |
| 6 | He urged me to come to Paris . |
| 7 | It had to come to this , he wrote . |
| 8 | It had to come to the nightly struggle with the big glass , like the struggle with Proteus , who must be held no matter what form he takes , bull , bear , fox , fire , water . |
| 9 | Mr Kidd said he already had anecdotal evidence of US conventions pulling out of the UK : ‘ One conference of surgeons and one group of insurance sales staff , who planned to come to London for two weeks , could not find a hotel they were happy with . ’ |
| 10 | She 's as poor as a church mouse , that 's why she has to come to Arthur and Margot 's in the holidays . ’ |
| 11 | Fear was there , certainly , and also an inability to come to terms with what had happened , but there was something more . |
| 12 | It is not unknown for so-called ‘ unspinnable ’ aircraft to come to grief by getting into a stable spin . |
| 13 | Over the years I watched as senior officers struggled to come to terms with our bizarre presence , which overcame any respect they might have had for our practical mastery of dealing with a world they were wary of . |
| 14 | Tournament organisers and the refereeing panel expect competitors to come to the tournament in a fit state to compete , not shrouded in bandages ! |
| 15 | ‘ All hell rules over the man who is angry , ’ says the Talmud , and by September 1939 , when Leonard was beginning to come to terms with the thresholds of life 's reality , hell was ruling the world , or at least appeared to be . |
| 16 | Leonard was fortunate to come to it when he did , for he was able to enter into the fruits and the confidence born of it , as well as classical English literature . |
| 17 | What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language . |
| 18 | The Sunday before she had asked him to come to tea . |
| 19 | ‘ Would you like to come to tea ? ’ |
| 20 | Who , to come to my point , is to shoulder the responsibility ? ’ |
| 21 | They are bound to come to something , Stepan confides to the narrator ; ‘ usually in our world things come to nothing , but this will end in something , it 's bound to , it 's bound to ! ’ |
| 22 | It could be a rewarding form of teaching to help an uninformed but well-motivated student to come to terms with poetry , but it would involve time and leisure . |
| 23 | There are elements of a vicious version of the hermeneutic circle involved : people do n't like poetry because they have n't read enough to come to terms with it , and they have n't read enough because they do n't like it . |
| 24 | Lasting well over four hours , it is patently in no hurry to come to conclusions or to an end . |
| 25 | Many of the East Germans assumed West Germany had again dug into its pocket to ‘ buy out ’ East Germans seeking to come to the West . |
| 26 | ‘ Either LIN buys the rest of the franchise it does n't already own , or it has to come to terms with McCaw . ’ |
| 27 | And he invited him to come to the Mayday parade to see for himself . |
| 28 | It 's the difference between the person who knocks you down to take your purse and the person who knocks him down to come to your rescue . ’ |
| 29 | He was in hospital and unable to come to Brighton . |
| 30 | Nor can Erich Honecker now ask the most important guest not to come to his party . |