if something comes to you, you think of it or remember it
same as come on to
to become someone’s property, especially because the previous owner has died
to finally achieve a particular level of success
to reach a particular state or point, especially one that is bad or unpleasant
to reach a particular total when everything is added together
used for emphasizing how bad a situation is and how shocked or upset you are about it
when the subject being discussed is a particular thing
Her name will come to me in a minute.
His teachers all agreed that he wouldn’t come to anything much.
I tried to read his expression, tried to discern whether he'd come to help me or arrest me.
If it comes to war, NATO forces will be stronger in the air.
If you will not come to me through love, you will come to me through fear.
It came to her that it was foolish to expect him to help.
It comes to something when you don’t even remember your own mother’s birthday.
I’ll come on to some of the effects of this policy in a moment.
So, has our relationship come to this? Two people with nothing to say to each other.
Still, in his short time here he had come to enjoy working with the Australians.
The idea came to me when we were on holiday.
The men all wore that same serious, wary expression that she had come to associate with the Defenders.
When it comes to holidays, I prefer something lazy.
When it comes to writing letters, she’s hopeless.
With salaries and overtime the bill came to £752,000.
You wonder what the world is coming to when young children are dying of hunger.
comes to
coming to
came to
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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