Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had already come to the conclusion that regression therapy would probably be the best way to help Maxine , and I put the idea to her . |
| 2 | ‘ You once said if there was anything you could do to help me I had only to come to you and ask . |
| 3 | I 've merely come to my senses where women are concerned . ’ |
| 4 | Well , I 've now come to my senses , and it 's as well for you to know how I feel right from the start . |
| 5 | On trying to contact Mr by phone I have on many occasions I was put off to say he was n't available I have also come to the foyer at the bottom asked to see Mr after twenty minutes wait and nobody turned up I decided to retire . |
| 6 | ‘ I have nearly come to the end of what I have to say but there is one final complication if I may impose on your patience a little longer . |
| 7 | ‘ In approaching the wife 's defence I have regretfully come to the conclusion that the judge has overlooked two critical points of distinction between her case and that of the husband . |
| 8 | I have however come to the conclusion that this submission of Mr Isaacs is too sweeping in its effect . |
| 9 | I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the lead should be in favour of retaining the death penalty for the present . |
| 10 | Probably because it 's as close as I have ever come to seeing myself and my friends up on the screen . |
| 11 | After Danny de Vito showed his skills as a director in Wars of the Roses he used his leverage with the money-men to bankroll a long-cherished project which has finally come to the screen as Hoffa . |
| 12 | But the jurist allows it to be treated as inhering in the legacy , charged on the sum of money which has now come to Maevius . |
| 13 | In one case , which has still to come to trial , it is not clear which hat the salesman was wearing when he made his deals : his own or the life company 's . |
| 14 | While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City . |
| 15 | Her knees seemed to have turned to water , her mind still reeling under the impact of the devastating revelation which had just come to her . |
| 16 | Lord Taylor , the Lord Chief Justice , sitting with Mr Justice Judge and Mr Justice Hidden , said they could not be sure that the original trial jury would have reached the same verdict if it had heard evidence which had since come to light . |
| 17 | The new government pledged itself to deal with a range of serious environmental problems affecting the country , the extent of many of which had only come to light after the collapse of communist rule . |
| 18 | Ciaran Ryan reported on a case of blatant discrimination in Bank of Ireland , Area West which had recently come to light . |
| 19 | The shoulder-mount design is typical of standard and super VHS machines which have thereby come to he associated with semi-pro use . |
| 20 | In the absence of any details it is difficult to assess the force of these references to biology and sociology … . ( 1 ) What , if any , were the false biological views in question ? ( 2 ) How did it follow from them that women could not be ordained to the priesthood ? ( 3 ) What are the views which have taken their place ? … . ( 7 ) Have the views about women which have now come to be held proved to be true ? |
| 21 | It is in fact directed against the protesters ' own parents — especially the father — and is intended to take the place of the infantile and adolescent reproaches and criticisms of the parental authority which have now come to be directed at each and any cultural equivalent of the father . |
| 22 | Their interest has been titillated by occasional manuscripts said to come from Ivan the Terrible 's library , which have periodically come to light in Moscow . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'd better come to the flat with me for a start , as soon as the warrant arrives . |
| 24 | ‘ If you 're looking for trouble you 've definitely come to the right place , ’ said actor Christian Slater , host of the three-hour awards show telecast on the cable network from Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 25 | She had never come to terms with her old life , but , inch by inch , she was coming to terms with this one : her first reality . |
| 26 | Eddie had been dead ten long years , a life so abruptly terminated that she had never come to terms with it . |
| 27 | She had still come to no conclusion about what Naylor would do when , at ten minutes to eight , she left her room . |
| 28 | There they joined Japanese geologists who had also come to McMurdo Station that season to search for meteorites . |
| 29 | Hands tingling with fear , hearing only the thundering of her heart , Isabel stepped over the threshold to confront the wife of the man who had once come to her aid , and whom she must now betray . |
| 30 | He remembered the many faces of Sylvie , the child-woman with the mischievous glance who had stolen apples in the Paris market , the girl he had obsessively trailed , the passionate creature who had boldly come to his flat and pleasured him to the point of pain , the frightened child who pushed him away and clung to him simultaneously . |