Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more , the old iron trucks with their armour plating are still lying rusting beside the old Kubri road just where they came to a halt in 1948 , the wheels stripped of their tyres but their iron bullet shields still intact . |
| 2 | It took the three of them over an hour to reach the bottom of the slope , where they came to a halt . |
| 3 | Sherlock Holmes leaves England for New York City where he comes to the aid of his long-time love , the famous stage actress Irene Adler . |
| 4 | I am uncomfortably bemused , so I come to the point of my visit . |
| 5 | Once she came to Mansfield Street with the King , and stayed over four hours , arranging and playing with everything , much to the chagrin of a lady in waiting who was kept firmly outside the drawing room ! |
| 6 | Once you come to the end of the page — or some other sensible stopping point — and assuming that you have understood what you have been reading , write on your pad a heading and a list of the key words contained in the piece . |
| 7 | ‘ We could be happy together , once you come to terms with the fact that marriage is n't on my agenda . ’ |
| 8 | After the victory at the sea the triumph song , but hardly have the last notes escaped Israel 's lips than we come to the second story of complaint ( 15.22–7 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , so we come to the purpose of the exercise ? |
| 10 | Erm , so we come to special resolution number one , which is as set out on your order paper , which is to do with the replacement of a , er , clause in our Memorandum of Association , and I will invite Jeffrey to move it . |
| 11 | ‘ So we came to Cochabamba . |
| 12 | Once we come to terms with the very limited although crucial place of analytic thinking among the varieties of intelligent behaviour , we draw from ‘ Be aware ’ the corollary ‘ Reason as much as and no more than will assist awareness ’ . |
| 13 | Also , the tempi in the original Bruckner scores are much simpler than they come to be in some editions . |
| 14 | than they come to a halt , as if obeying |
| 15 | For Locke , then , ‘ general words signify … a sort of thing ’ ; and they do this by being a sign of an abstract idea or nominal essence in the mind , ‘ to which idea , as things existing are found to agree , so they come to be ranked under that name ; or … be of that sort ’ . |
| 16 | It seems they could not find anyone else to answer the call , so they came to us . ’ |
| 17 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 18 | His death was accidental , but the police would never believe that , and so they came to their terrible decision , to cut the body up and hide it . |
| 19 | Once they come to us the packaging has disappeared and so we ca n't sell it . |
| 20 | Although he came to Parliaments regularly enough , he spent his last twenty years running his diocese with the same competent mediocrity by which he had come by it . |
| 21 | ‘ He loved the work in the yard , and that was taken away from him , so he came to Sakata . |
| 22 | ‘ So he came to you and said can you put me up and you did ? ’ asked an unfeeling Coffin . |
| 23 | watered down the terms so it came to nil . |
| 24 | Of course , these statistics are crude , but they strongly suggest a world in which war may often have seemed prohibitively expensive , especially once it came to be realised that Æthelred 's military operations tended to be unsuccessful . |
| 25 | But , as on most other trips together overseas , once it comes to relaxing we 'll do most of it together . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 28 | If I come to a word like meteorological , that is apt to give me trouble , I discreetly rephrase ! |
| 29 | That is the position here if I come to the conclusion that those presently instructing Crossman Block are not entitled to act as the government of the Republic . |
| 30 | If I come to grief , Hilary , then so will you . ’ |