What is "came to"

Usage examples of "came to".

When I think how close Mr Garin and his little boy came to being under all that when it went (not to mention Mr Allen Symes, Geologist Extraordinaire), I get the willies.

Regular pay was the foundation of loyalty when it came to the individual Imperial fighter.

He even imagined faces, for the faces of fighters came to look much alike after a few seasons in the field: tired, unshaven, with lines of suppressed fear and dogged determination about the eyes and mouth.

Oh, he didn't want to be alone forever, but a third realization came to him, on the heels of the other two.

Finally, the session came to an end, and he was free to stand up with the others and trail out.

They came to be friends, and in his innocent wisdom, the young priest saw An'desha's terrible fears and knew the great danger that An'desha could pose if An'desha could not conquer his fears to grasp his powers.

Then he came to the open mouth of the sanctuary disguised in the swirl of energies by a swirl of chameleon colors on its surface.

More and more people came to the room, as if aware that any news from the Healers would come here first.

Then Florian's feet came to rest on the stone on the other side with a little jolt, as if the Companion had made a small hop over an obstacle in their path.

The mental exercises that sharpened the mind came to him naturally, like a musician practicing his fingerings quicker and quicker.

Sometimes she would think of the endless evenings before the gunshot from the garage and she would see Seth in his chair, the one with the horse-and-rider decals she and Herb had put on when they came to realize just how much the boy loved 'Wessurns'.

As the colour went out of her, she began to look more like the woman who was waiting for her to catch up, a woman with one breast Tak was an artist when it came to those but there was a clear sexual aspect to the nipple-pinching.

The top of her head came to rest inches from the heels of Peter, the man who had lost his wife.

She had never seen him cry before, not even when he came to her with scraped knees or a banged head.

Hoss had been one of Seth's favorites before Tak came to stay inside him, and so now he was one of Tak's favorites, too.