Example sentences of "who [vb past] come [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you remember that old lady who kept coming in for Roald Dahl , saying he was a woman ? ’ sobbed Denise . |
| 2 | Janina 's father was a Polish Jew who had come over to Britain to fight in the war . |
| 3 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 4 | Falling under the spell of an older , flamboyantly dressed and well-educated kinsman , Esme Stuart , who had come over from France , he was suspected of dangerously Papist leanings and of some unnatural sexual habits . |
| 5 | Everyone was wandering around the house getting everything ready for my uncle who had come over from Nigeria . |
| 6 | I had already employed an attendant , Toril , who had come over from Norway at the end of July to help me during and after my move . |
| 7 | They were two guys who had come up through Play School and Trumpton as well , I mean the commercials were fairly far out , Windy Miller 's head falls off when he eats the wrong bread or something like that . |
| 8 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 9 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 10 | ‘ Feel this , ’ he said to Merymose , who had come up in turn . |
| 11 | Her father had been an economist , who had come back to Europe with Woodrow Wilson to try to hammer something workable out of the ruins of the Great War , and after that the family had divided themselves between the USA and Britain . |
| 12 | My parents , who had come back to Hastings from their exile in Somerset to fish and clean , as they always did , had braved all and were coming to the wedding . |
| 13 | The senior man , who had come in from Los Angeles to E.B.I.H.Q. after Erlich had left Washington , he 'd be everybody 's friend , he 'd have them eating out of his hand down at Counter-Terrorism , he 'd probably take out citizenship . |
| 14 | Recalled the team of copy humans who had come in from Mars to kill him . |
| 15 | Richard H. Truly , 50 , was appointed on April 12 , 1989 , as acting administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) ; James C. Fletcher , a previous administrator who had come out of retirement to guide NASA after the 1986 Challenger disaster [ see pp. 34266-68 ] , had left the post on April 8 . |
| 16 | Once I was inside and looking at the space I had and the needs I had identified , I saw my task differently from the people who had come out of production , many of whom , whether men or women , continued to want to master/ mistressmind productions themselves as Executive Producer . |
| 17 | One friend was Randolph Churchill , who had come out to Cairo originally with Layforce and had then been given a job of liaison with the press . |
| 18 | The policy of the labour exchanges towards boys who wanted to come out of farming was to refuse them alternative employment . |