Example sentences of "they have come [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 've come to a judgement on those issues and their judgement is that erm they s should support the principle of a western route . |
| 2 | They had come on a sight-seeing visit and , of course , they had their cameras with them . |
| 3 | They had come into a gallery at the centre of which was a large glass case , round which the boys — apart from Khan and the Husayns — were crowded . |
| 4 | ‘ You can open your eyes now , ’ the Bookman told him when they had come to a stop . |
| 5 | They had come to a bridge . |
| 6 | It was n't until they had come to a halt that she had felt able to raise her eyes from the floor and look at the two men standing by the alter rail . |
| 7 | They did n't often have a chance to leave the pub together , but this afternoon she was determined to have a family outing , so as soon as the dinner-things were washed up , they had come for a walk to the Island Gardens . |
| 8 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 9 | Nutty realised afterwards that they had come within a hairs-breadth of total disaster . |
| 10 | They had come in a good strong box , which Boy had kept . |
| 11 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 12 | Prior to 1952 , section 14 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1848 provided that justices ‘ shall convict … or make an order … , ’ i.e. that they had to come to a decision . |
| 13 | They have come to a full stop . |
| 14 | Both are happy with the set-up and for people to know that they have come to an arrangement on leading separate lives . |
| 15 | If they have come to an arrangement with British Rail under the bus substitution programme and they consider that they are not getting enough money , there will be no cosy chats or friendly discussions in the board room , they will be absolutely ruthless and cut the services . |
| 16 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 17 | Many people have had experiences of déjà vu , when they have come across a place which they are able to describe in precise detail even though they know they have never been there before . |
| 18 | But now that computer animation looks so real , some advertising agencies are insisting that the images they pay For must look as if they have come from a computer . |
| 19 | They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place . |
| 20 | But if the two of them had come by a windfall of some sort , she was n't going to ask questions about it . |