Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] come to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learnt this lesson some years ago when the soldier to whom I referred earlier came to Christ . |
| 2 | This was one aspect of his life that Charles found hard to come to terms with , especially during this period when he was evaluating and reassessing his role in life . |
| 3 | Derek Jeffries was bought for Crystal Palace for £100,000 in September 1973 by Manager Malcolm Allison , who h , ad also been his boss at Manchester City , to help boost Palace 's struggling midfield as we sought desperately to come to terms with life after relegation to Division Two . |
| 4 | It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services . |
| 5 | During that time Léonie and Madeleine went on coming to France in the school holidays , just as they always had . |
| 6 | The case did not come to trial until 1963 . |
| 7 | The three did not come to trial until last week when they were each imprisoned for four years . |
| 8 | Kark Weschke , at the Redfern Gallery , is Expressionist in a more orthodox fashion — not surprisingly , since he was born in Germany in 1925 and did not come to England until 1948 . |
| 9 | A newsletter writer of August 1692 complained that it was impossible to distinguish between those who did not come to church because they were attending conventicles and those who did not worship God at all , and he predicted the result would be the downfall of the Church of England followed by the triumph of popery . |
| 10 | ( David Rockefellers older brother Nelson , who had recently died , had been almost a friend of the Shah ) Would either of them fly to Morocco and tell the Shah that the US government preferred that he did not come to America right now ? |
| 11 | John of Anagni threatened to lay an interdict on France if Philip did not come to terms with Henry , but Philip was unmoved and observed that the legate 's money bags were obviously full of English silver . |
| 12 | While encouraging westernized intelligentsias , he did not come to terms with their nationalisms , whether he was lecturing in South Africa ( 1949 ) , advising on local government in Tanganyika ( 1950 ) , observing the Seretse Khama [ q.v. ] affair in Bechuanaland ( 1951 ) , or surveying the possibilities for a Central African Federation ( 1952 ) . |
| 13 | But unlike them she did not come to office during a wartime emergency nor head a coalition government . |
| 14 | The swop did not come to light until Arlena , who suffered from a congenital heart defect , had to undergo surgery . |
| 15 | Tiriac is still miffed that the ATP final did not come to Stuttgart : ‘ The ATP told me to join the auction , but I am too good to have to do that . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I am desperately sad that our scheme did not come to fruition but I am glad that someone will take it over and bring these jobs to the area . |
| 17 | Sad to relate , they did not come to Northern Ireland at all ! |
| 18 | England did finally come to terms with their first-half lineout problems . |
| 19 | There were Sundays when Dadda did n't come to lunch , when depression kept him from stirring out of doors . |
| 20 | " Captain Dura — what was the real reason he did n't come to Ireland ? " |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm only sorry I did n't come to Israel 20 years ago . ’ |
| 22 | She did n't come to church , or to Sunday school . |
| 23 | I did n't come to school for two weeks . |
| 24 | Well he , he did n't really say a lot , er they asked him a question and er he , he just turned round and said er we hope , we hope it 's er a peaceful solution , that er virtually saying he hoped it did n't come to war , and Christine turned round and said ‘ yes we want a peaceful solution ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't come to Majorca to enjoy . |
| 26 | I could see the American woman was angry , but she did n't come to Monsignor 's support . |
| 27 | ‘ Team spirit reached an all time low on this one , but at least we did n't come to blows , ’ added Chris . |
| 28 | They come once to Styal , they did n't come to Bullwood Hall , and I think they came to Askham Grange once . |
| 29 | While Britain got used to Wilson , the Americans did n't come to terms with the post-Kennedy era . |
| 30 | Well well I I as I er as both myself and my wife understood it , everything had been paid and then obviously when we got the letter saying we owed this amount of money it did n't come to light till Mr and Mrs came to see you |