Example sentences of "[vb past] he [vb past] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 2 | And each time Dexter believed he had come closer to Blanche , understood her better , and liked her more . |
| 3 | The informer believed he had come under suspicion by his commanders but in fact the UDA/UFF leadership suspected another member of setting up the team . |
| 4 | When Geoff came into the staff room on the alcohol problems unit I assumed he had come to the wrong ward . |
| 5 | I discovered he had come from South America . |
| 6 | He knew he had come to the right person . |
| 7 | For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought he had come to take you away , Jim , ’ she said , breaking into tears . |
| 9 | So under the surface of the thick glass lay a mass of long gold threads , filling in the whole cavity of the box with their turns and tumbles , so that at first the little tailor thought he had come upon a box full of spun gold , to make cloth of gold . |
| 10 | The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien . |
| 11 | When he waited outside pubs , the pub-owners chased him away because they thought he had come to steal something . |
| 12 | For a moment Agnes thought he must have pulled a muscle , then giggled as she , and she alone , realised he had come close to spilling his holstered pistol . |
| 13 | Dusan Zivkovic , aged 65 , a Yugoslav Serb who was handed to the communists by the British but managed to escape , said he had come to court to find the culprits and ‘ nail the bastards ’ who had sent his fellow countrymen to their deaths . |
| 14 | Mr Usta said he had come to London under the impression that his kidney was to be donated to one of the ‘ broker ’ brothers , Ata Nur Kuntar . |
| 15 | The admiral said he had come ‘ to bring new impetus and vigour into our bilateral relationship ’ . |
| 16 | Judge Anthony Lewisohn said he had come ‘ very close ’ to going to jail . |
| 17 | John Gibson , 28 , a farmer , said he had come upon the two men in his barn eight hours after the alleged bank raid . |
| 18 | When he retired he had come to be regarded as the founder of modern veterinary research . |