Example sentences of "he come to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told the boy , she says , to go back to Wales and save up the money which would allow him to come to London with a certain degree of security . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd like to know it , all the same , ’ he said , as if the knowledge could somehow enable him to come to grips with it and defeat it . |
| 3 | If only , she thought , there was a way to help him come to terms with the rage that had coloured his whole life . |
| 4 | Mountain Everest , he come to Mahomet at last , ’ and he folded Ricky in a vast hot embrace . |
| 5 | Alexander I rebuffed repeated advice that he come to terms with Napoleon during the French invasion . |
| 6 | He came to Henley from Datchet and was schooled in course maintenance dependent significantly on chemical technology and machines , although a ‘ green fingers ’ instinct and physical strength are still important . |
| 7 | ‘ Diego Rivera , who became a world-famous fresco painter when he went back to his native Mexico , was 25 when he came to Paris in 1914 , a political as well as an artistic rebel and just the sort of companion Modi enjoyed . |
| 8 | My father used it when he came to America for a new start in life . ’ |
| 9 | Like many , he got known in the UK through the Virgin ‘ Techno ’ compilations but , when he came to Britain with Inner City 's ‘ Big Fun ’ tour , his career and personal life nose-dived when Blake discovered he was epileptic . |
| 10 | Before 1869 , there was no Institution in England and Wales ( nor for that matter , in Scotland ) where deaf children of Roman Catholics could be educated in their own faith , and when a Belgian priest , Monsignore de Haerne , a deputy in the Belgian Senate , learnt of this , he came to Britain for the purpose of establishing one . |
| 11 | A former AE of a major futures bucket shop here recalls using hard sell techniques on a visiting client : " One day , he came to lunch with me , and I became quite drunk while he stayed determinedly sober . |
| 12 | So she came back to London and married the man I called my father , but she never really cared for him and she still saw this other man sometimes when he came to London on business . |
| 13 | So he came to Talbothays at twenty-six , as a student . |
| 14 | He came to England as a Rhodes Scholar in 1958 , and after a year of teaching at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore he returned to Oxford for three years in the early 1960s as research fellow and junior dean at St John 's College . |
| 15 | He came to England aged ten years old and at seventeen was taking his higher school certificate in physics and hoping to study medicine as a Major scholar at King 's College . |
| 16 | What I have in common with the Kurd is green eyes , the fact that he came to England at the same time as I did — and that he too looks like a refugee from a Verdi opera . |
| 17 | He came to England at the age of three , when his father received a London posting . |
| 18 | ‘ He came to England with the conqueror , ’ says Hutchins in his History of Dorset , ‘ with a retinue of forty seven knights of note . |
| 19 | As a schoolmaster , however , he was not very successful , even when he came to England in 1876 , but as an apprentice pastor , he achieved some success . |
| 20 | He came to England in the service of some young travellers , and shortly afterwards became the page of the Duke of Richmond . |
| 21 | He came to England in 1810 , intent on the championship , then equivalent to the world heavyweight title . |
| 22 | He came to University in the 1960s and chose Bristol because ‘ it was the first of the Drama Departments . |
| 23 | Ill health dogged his period at St Mary 's , and he returned for a further period of treatment while he was the curate , and in September 1962 he came to Coniston as the Parish priest and significantly , no further setbacks were experienced to his health while he was living in proximity to Coniston Old Man and during the period he was Parish Priest . |
| 24 | He came to Lewis with a reputation as a philanthropic employer , and with ambitious development schemes for the island . |
| 25 | No better environment could therefore have been found for Philip Miller when he came to Chelsea in 1722 . |
| 26 | He came to photography via a Fine Arts degree , a teaching qualification and a career which combined teaching , private painting projects and social work . |
| 27 | That year he came to Europe as a roving correspondent and covered several large conferences . |
| 28 | That year he came to Europe as the roving correspondent and covered the several large conferences . |
| 29 | So , that would be Freud 's defence , now , I suppose you would have to know a lot more about modern history , to , to know , if this was really true or not , but erm , the the er , question that Freud was really asking himself , really was , why did Wilson let us down , because Freud admits that he regarded Wilson , when he came to Europe as a saviour . |
| 30 | He came to Europe in 1948 and returned again the following year when his familiar blue and yellow Maserati was a regular sight at Grand Prix on the continent . |