Example sentences of "[adv] i came to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then er , there 's a long line of changing jobs and eventually I came to Dudley . |
| 2 | Eventually I came to terms with doing what I call a ‘ sequence of interesting things ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So I came to the dinner for 20 minutes and sat with the sponsors . |
| 5 | So I came to Walsall again , when I left Walsall I never wanted to , to come back to Walsall er because of two reasons . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Soon I came to an opening in the hills . |
| 9 | I did not notice where I was walking , but soon I came to the station . |
| 10 | His approach was to nudge me in certain directions , and very quickly I came to a number of revelations . |
| 11 | The nearest I came to fishing was as number three in a racing four on the grubby River Tees , when I joined the Tees Amateur Rowing Club . |
| 12 | Thirdly I came to another EMI disc featuring the Britten Quartet in performances of Ravel 's String Quartet , the Vaughan Williams String Quartet in G minor and On Wenlock Edge , in which the quartet are joined by the tenor Philip Langridge and pianist Howard Shelley — more than 78 minutes of music in all . |
| 13 | I used at times to feel somewhat worried when she would play the supremely confident coquette with me and I would be enthralled by her charms , but then I came to the conviction , some time ago , that such moments of relatedness could only be nourishing for her developing personality as well as delightful to me . |
| 14 | Next I started on chapters for another arthritis textbook … and then … and then I came to my senses . |
| 15 | Then I came to the fourth floor landing and Toby 's door opened and there he was . |
| 16 | Then I came to Newgate Prison , where a drunk old man showed me the place where prisoners were hanged , and told me excitedly that four men would die there tomorrow . |
| 17 | ‘ Then I came to England . |
| 18 | Then I came to the photo of another man . |
| 19 | And then I came to a promontory of rock from which I had a view of Geneva , and was shaken . |
| 20 | The closest I came to anything clinical was watching a nurse shave the chest of a Lebanese businessman , so that she could attach the electrodes required for an ECG — I held the kidney dish into which the used razor was deposited . |
| 21 | That 's how I came to be stuck and sweating , 60 ′ above the boulders ; feet flapping , nose snorting , musty sandstone , fingernails smearing lichen and a jammed knot placed blindly in the dark , keeping it all together . |
| 22 | We had gone two or three miles when he asked me what I did and how I came to be hitch-hiking . |
| 23 | But I must first finish the tale of how I came to be here . |
| 24 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 25 | Whether it was advertised or what but how I came to be there I would n't know . |
| 26 | To pinch a famous phrase , the road from Edinburgh to Sarajevo is a long one , and I am not sure how I came to be on it . |
| 27 | And the university provided them , greatly goosed on , I might say , by the then Vice Chancellor Aisa Briggs , who was very excited by the project , and that 's really how I came to be connected with the university . |
| 28 | ‘ Afterwards , when I came to London , I was never really well , although the work I was doing was not hard . ’ |
| 29 | My self-pity was enhanced at four-thirty when I came to camp . |
| 30 | In 1981 when I came to Region it was n't our concern with the big psychiatric hospitals . |