Example sentences of "i come to " in BNC.

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1 I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept .
2 I came to the school with considerable amateur experience of Shakespeare with the Oxford University Dramatic Society and had even played in a real theatre in Oxford .
3 I came to the conclusion that there was quite a bit of room in the psyche of the British clockmaking establishment for a little humility .
4 I was born in what is now Russia , and when I came to Scotland shortly before the war the small Jewish grocery shops in the Gorbals district of Glasgow were my main link with home .
5 So I came to the dinner for 20 minutes and sat with the sponsors .
6 While I came to the Arctic when I realized that climbing , my first love , was losing its appeal , Tony was born to the area , loving it , one might believe , even before he saw his first photograph of it .
7 Since I came to England it has got much less .
8 That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station .
9 When I came to the Market Cross I stopped .
10 Then I darted breathless and sodden into the first hotel I came to .
11 ‘ Afterwards , when I came to London , I was never really well , although the work I was doing was not hard . ’
12 Then , of course , I came to myself and tore the hat off .
13 I came to sitting on the sofa still holding the broken pot in my hand .
14 ‘ I did n't have a boyfriend till I came to London when I was 17 .
15 When I graduated I came to London , again with not much idea of what I would do .
16 Just as I had done before , I stumped around Clonmacnoise , surveying each ruined building or ancient cross as I came to it .
17 Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside .
18 Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies .
19 According to Mary , I was to go straight on.All of a sudden , I came to a place of fairy rings , in fields on either side of the lane .
20 I came to sensible awareness ; to incredulous understanding .
21 I came to Hambury to look for someone . ’
22 I came to film through advertising .
23 This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin .
24 I came to the school to run away from it .
25 I came to the school some time ago to investigate the giant eel and got lost .
26 I came to the cathedral ,
27 I missed this when I came to your house , ’ Maggie said quietly .
28 ‘ When I came to Hollywood in 1950 , the studio system was still in place but it was crumbling , ’ he told the author .
29 I had achieved what I came to Peru to do and , more than I could realise , this was to be the end of something .
30 Anyway , I came to this old cemetery and against one wall was this kind of beehive grave affair and someone had broken into one of the graves and pulled out this baby 's coffin and smashed it open .
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