Example sentences of "came to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard times came to Swindon with the closure of the rail works . |
| 2 | Whenever they came to meetings at the department they sat at opposite ends of the table . |
| 3 | MARCUS DALY-FERRIERA , 27 , is a Royal Engineers corporal and came to pentathlon through the Army Triathlon in 1987 . |
| 4 | They came to Anoch in the early afternoon , having to break their journey early , because the opportunities for food and lodging were not evenly distributed between Fort Augustus and Glenelg : Johnson says , ‘ the only house , where we could be entertained , was not further off than a third of the way ’ . |
| 5 | Karate came to England via the work and expertise of an unsung innovator named Vernon Bell , who can truly be called the father of English karate . |
| 6 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 7 | ‘ He came to England with the conqueror , ’ says Hutchins in his History of Dorset , ‘ with a retinue of forty seven knights of note . |
| 8 | The mother was far from satisfied with this approach and she was cross during the course of the hearing , I am told , and evidently decided to take the law in her own hands and on 3 July she came to England with the child and she has been here ever since . |
| 9 | I believe that was the reason she came to England with the Wingfields . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Elfriede came to England at the age of three and stayed with the Lewis family in Newport , Monmouthshire . |
| 12 | He came to England at the age of three , when his father received a London posting . |
| 13 | For example , the account of Cnut 's visit to Sherborne in Goscelin 's Life of St Wulfsige is very likely based on Sherborne tradition , as Goscelin , a monk of St Omer , came to England at the invitation of Bishop Hermann of Sherborne , probably spent time in the community there , and was writing at Hermann 's request . |
| 14 | When Robertson Nicoll came to England in the 1880s he went to Dawlish where he complained : ‘ Dissent here is nowhere … |
| 15 | He came to England in the service of some young travellers , and shortly afterwards became the page of the Duke of Richmond . |
| 16 | He had been born in Jamaica but came to England in the 1940s to work in the steel industry . |
| 17 | He and his wife were Turkish-born Jews who came to Palestine before the Second World War . |
| 18 | They came to Worcester from the headquarters of King Charles the Second to escort the city 's mayor to London . |
| 19 | It was in the spring of 1956 that Elizabeth came to Greece for the first time , on a cruise . |
| 20 | The news came to Perth on the day of the King 's special council , and was brought to Thorfinn by Bishop Jon as he prepared to leave with Prior Eochaid for the Moot Hill . |
| 21 | Bancroftian filariasis , the commonest cause of these spectacular scroti , came to Brazil with the African slaves . |
| 22 | Cottee came to Everton with the best of references a goal every two games in his West Ham days . |
| 23 | One , the friend of the new French Prime Minister , Georges Bidault , had apparently been told that he could not concede the fundamental issue of independence ; for the other , who was to succeed Ho on his death , and for the large and varied delegation which came to Paris under the title of the Popular National Front ( Lien Viet ) everything , practically , turned on the question of Cochinchina . |
| 24 | Everything came to life in the summer with the warm weather and long days . |
| 25 | Described as ‘ cold , haughty , melancholy and dull ’ , he at least came to life in the splendour of his books , some eight hundred of which are in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . |
| 26 | But while they gave support and commitment , it was lesbians who were at the forefront of change when the Girls ' Work Movement came to life in the late seventies and early eighties . |
| 27 | The science of physics really came to birth during the nineteenth century , though the process of convergence of separate physical sciences had perhaps begun when Galileo united celestial and terrestrial dynamics . |
| 28 | And he dight himself full gallantly and well , and took with him many knights , both his own and of his kindred and of his friends , and he took also many new arms , and came to Valencia to the King with two hundred of his peers in arms , in festival guise ; and the King went out to meet him , and received him right well , and did him honour ; and at this were all the Counts displeased . |
| 29 | He came to University in the 1960s and chose Bristol because ‘ it was the first of the Drama Departments . |
| 30 | In 1900 , Mr Marshall , whose fair came to Holmfirth for the feast , consented to donate the receipts from his gondolas between 7pm and 8pm on Feast Saturday . |