Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you suggesting that I 've come to — ? ’ |
| 2 | Er , first of all on the comment from Dave in relation to British Gas and the minimum achieved performance level or M A P L er the initials that I 've come to er know and love over the past few months , never having heard of them before . |
| 3 | Oh no , I mean the these were clients and they could never be friends after doing that I 've come to the conclusion you can either keep your money or you can keep your friends , but you 're not going to do both . |
| 4 | Erm Well not that I 've come across yet I 'd rather do something that 's getting the facts and then giving examples . |
| 5 | I mean , what I 'm saying is that I 've come across many of dem who try to speak the Jamaican language , er , the Jamaican Patois , but how they speak it is totally different , becau' they 've got the English accent , and um , dey , becau' they 've got the English accent they try to speak the Jamaican local Patois the same way and in doin' so it sounds really terrible you know it sort of sounds you know it 's really funny . |
| 6 | It 's not that I 've come on my own because it 's something that is seen as just my problem , because as I said , Tom does n't seem that interested either . |
| 7 | I peered down and for a moment believed that I had come on Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 8 | It happened that I had come to ‘ cut and sew ’ necklines in class . |
| 9 | I told him that I was English , an ex-paratrooper and that I had come to be a legionnaire . |
| 10 | The conclusions that I have come to about what is and is not important in the area of environmental scanning and business strategy are similar in many respects to those of White and Wilson , in another piece of British Library-sponsored research [ White & Wilson ( 1985 ) ] . |
| 11 | It is with great personal regret that I have come to this conclusion . |
| 12 | I do realise that no-one ( that I have come across yet ) is deliberately cruel to their fish , but ignorance is not excuse when there is plenty of help and information readily available . |
| 13 | And how strange , she thought , that I have come from him , and you are but now going to him , and yet I do not envy even you , the most enviable of women ! |
| 14 | Maybe I can never convince you that I am other than a spirit , for what I have to tell you is this : that I have come from two hundred years in the future to speak to you — to sit here by this window and talk as we talk now ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I wanted to come , ’ Maggie muttered , quite agreeing with him that she had come off worst in everything . |
| 16 | It was in the course of that initial watching and listening that she had come across Amy . |
| 17 | Neither Matthew nor the girl was aware that she had come into the room , and as Beth 's eyes went from the unique expression of wonder on the boy 's handsome face , to the girl 's slender form … the small budding breasts , and the young limbs that were already shaping into those of a young woman … a strange sense of revulsion shivered through her . |
| 18 | It was obvious that she had come into the laboratory after the blow had been struck , and had in fact seen very little . |
| 19 | " I overheard Gerard tell Mrs James that she had come down stairs with a " face fit to murder " , Jane continued , doing a passable imitation of the butler . |
| 20 | Like Faith , the Magdalene showed that she had come of her own wish by performing many miracles of healing and other good works ; and her church became one of the most popular centres of pilgrimage in Europe . |
| 21 | She 'd needed all her courage then , to stand over him and introduce herself ; to refuse to be sent away , to admit that she had come to Geneva in vain . |
| 22 | But had it not been to rid herself of her aura of wealth and privilege which had created her feeling that she was the darling of the gods — although the same gods knew how brutally they had treated her — that she had come to the East End to work , and to live as though she really needed to , and to survive on the pittance which she had earned , without bolting back again to luxury and comfort ? |
| 23 | He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go . |
| 24 | It was this moment that she had come for . |
| 25 | To our relief , she missed out on all the formalities except for a perfunctory cry of ‘ GamBei ’ ( ‘ Down the hatch ’ ) and ‘ Greetings to our British friends ’ , and concentrated on tucking into the excellent meal — she gave the impression that she had come for the food and drink and nothing else . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If you could go to her , genuinely sorry for the hurt you had caused her and knowing that you had come to terms with your conflict about the difference in your ages , then maybe she might be willing to consider starting again . |
| 28 | I do hope that you 've come to terms with pregnancy now . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I feel very angry that you 've come to a conclusion about me without discussing the matter with me . ’ |
| 30 | I could say that you 've come to the wrong place , but I wo n't . ’ |