Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have come [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel very angry that you 've come to a conclusion about me without discussing the matter with me . ’ |
| 3 | Nothing has happened today , except that we have come to a sort of agreement about exercise . |
| 4 | Nutty realised afterwards that they had come within a hairs-breadth of total disaster . |
| 5 | Both are happy with the set-up and for people to know that they have come to an arrangement on leading separate lives . |
| 6 | It is not so , except perhaps in the most formal of speaking styles , where a sentence may fall to a low point in the voice and be followed by a substantial silence , and we know that it has come to an end . |
| 7 | A few years later , a homosexual friend of Anne 's said that he had come across a man who looked like Dustin , who hung out in gay bars , telling everyone he was Dustin Hoffman . |
| 8 | He might as well have descended on the Palace , announcing that he had come for a stay . |
| 9 | As he stared at her he knew that he had come to a crossroads , that if he gave in to her now he 'd have to give into her again and again and again . |
| 10 | When nothing happened , and he realised that he had come to a place without facilities , he retired for another consultation . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 12 | The inference that he did so by selling is supported by the incidental evidence of miracle-stories : one from St-Benoît-sur-Loire , for instance , recorded in the 870s , tells of two " comrades " ( compares ) at the monastery 's weekly market , who quarrelled over the 12d. they had made on their joint transactions ; another story of similar date from St-Hubert in the Ardennes has a peasant ( rusticus ) stating quite explicitly that he has come to an annual fair " to acquire the wherewithal to pay what I owe to my lord " . |