Example sentences of "and [pron] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One long blast on the whistle from Mr. Windust and everyone came to attention on the spot with not a sound to be heard . |
| 2 | Other bidders found out that I could top their bids , and no-one came to the party . |
| 3 | The day was the easiest since Reggane and I came to camp after twenty miles feeling strong , with Aulef only two hours away . |
| 4 | ‘ Through my early years , I always did a lot of running and I came to the conclusion that that was the reason for my injuries . |
| 5 | I managed to hold the aircraft straight for a short distance , running on the nosewheel which , luckily , had escaped damage , but as the speed came off the aircraft slewed sharply left and I came to a slithering , steaming halt about 200 metres the other side of the dyke , well off the runway . |
| 6 | We 'll stay put in old West Ken , ’ but Oliver had seen it all , and I came to America the first time on May 25th . |
| 7 | Master Vechey was here when Brother Athelstan and I came to the house for the first time . |
| 8 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
| 9 | And I came to the conclusion that we ought to develop our own music , and let the natural children of rock — the Europeans and North Americans — do their own thing . |
| 10 | Then as he was passing a bit nearer and I came to him , he stopped again in the queue , I walked in and and I said , I knocked on his window and he put it down and I said , that was n't a very nice thing to do . |
| 11 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 12 | More remarkable is the opposition between Never ! and I come to you . |
| 13 | The sky becomes stained with clouds and I come to a stretch of land by the sea — I do n't know what else to call it . |
| 14 | There are thousands of police officers in the 17 drugs wings who are accountable to the police authorities , and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and I come to this place to answer questions about them . |
| 15 | He presided over far-reaching changes , including the abolition of censorship , in a programme which he described as aiming for " socialism with a human face " and which came to be known as the " Prague Spring " . |
| 16 | The Tory party was more loosely structured : there were tensions between the Highflyers and the more moderate wing that emerged under Anne , and which came to be led by Robert Harley , whilst even the High Church chieftains — the Earl of Rochester , the Earl of Nottingham , and Sir Edward Seymour — worked much less closely together than the Whig Junto . |
| 17 | These considerations affect the difficulties which attend Difficulties with girls , and which come to the fore with the most Amis-sounding of its characters , the male lead . |
| 18 | Institutional shareholders prefer an employee trust to an option scheme , as it will not dilute their equity in the company ; this is because an option scheme established by a company usually provides for options to subscribe shares , whereas an employee trust can be empowered to grant options over shares already in issue and which come to be held by the trust , as where an employee leaves and sells his shares to the trustees . |
| 19 | and nobody came to grief |
| 20 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 21 | Wander through the village and along the lakeside promenade , and you come to the small Schafbergbahn railway , which winds its way to the top of the Schafberg mountain behind the village . |
| 22 | Walk a little farther and you come to the Church of St Lawrence which has Romanesque foundations . |
| 23 | ‘ Go across the drawbridge and you come to a heavy door … |
| 24 | You pass you pass er the capital past two more roads , streets and you come to this one as goes right the way through into Street at . |
| 25 | Oh yes yes oh well yes for a rum and coffee yeah , and I 'm afraid it was very acceptable on a winter 's morning , but erm now we come , we 've come on that side of Road , we 'll now start at the top of Road again and come along as far as er what I call Street I believe it 's now where St Michael 's church is , and you come to Sammy the butchers . |
| 26 | going to Oxford , if you went to Oxford and you come to such and such a way and you 're going out towards Ipswich and the big roundabout there was |
| 27 | You know , very often when you go from one country to another you go through an area of re , what is called no man 's land , you come through from one frontier and then you 've got a distance and you come to the next frontier that does n't exist as far as accepting or rejecting Christ is concerned . |
| 28 | There is not a great depository in heaven , there 's not a huge warehouse , and you come to God and say oh Father ! |
| 29 | By using the detachment technique during the course of the regression , it is possible for the hypnotherapist to ensure that you do not suffer in any way — if , for example , you are undergoing past-life regression and you came to a painful and untimely end in an earlier life . |
| 30 | Anyone in Hong Kong with a problem — be it so trivial as to know which horse to place a bet on , or so crucial as to know whom to marry — can ask the god Won Tai Sin , whose temple is to be found in the middle of a vast housing estate in north Kowloon , and who came to fame by turning boulders into sheep . |