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Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] come " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The questions of who I was , where I had come from and where I was going struck them with confusion .
2	Where I had come from , in the English provinces , the markets were quite small , and reserved for food .
3	That , and my only tape , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , reminding me of where I 've been and where I 've come from .
4	Such inspections are theoretically repeated every two or three years , although I have come across some childminders who have not received a follow up visit for several years .
5	The sad part is that I 've come to hate my body so much , I blame it for everything , and now I ca n't let anyone get close to me , to reassure me . ’
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	There 's just a mum they like and a dad they hate , or vice versa , and the eccentric old aunts that I 've come across tend to be eccentric only because they 're secret alcoholics and smell like unwashed dogs or turn out to be suffering from Alzheimer 's disease or something . )
8	This is the third time tonight that I 've come to look for you .
9	Erm Well not that I 've come across yet I 'd rather do something that 's getting the facts and then giving examples .
10	" It 's the children , as you must be aware , that I 've come about .
11	‘ Are you suggesting that I 've come to — ? ’
12	I grew away from the Church being a clergyman s son , of course , and now that I 've come back to it I find it the same only more so — fewer people and even more cups of tea . ’
13	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 .
14	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 .
15	And my second reason is that I 've come to doubt the futurologists , the people in the think tanks .
16	to the one that I 've come up with erm I E the white headrail and
17	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 .
18	About five weeks before that I had come home in my first university term , and got undressed for my bath in front of the bathroom mirror .
19	The driver assumed that I had come to see the church at Eyam , with its special exhibition featuring the events of 1665 and 1666 , when the bubonic plague visited the village .
20	I thought for a moment that I had come second ; I had n't seen Ben at all .
21	Then I watched the re-run on the screen and saw that I had come third .
22	It happened that I had come to ‘ cut and sew ’ necklines in class .
23	The Gendarme on duty at Boulogne Police Station looked surprised when I said that I had come to join the French Foreign Legion .
24	I told him that I was English , an ex-paratrooper and that I had come to be a legionnaire .
25	They were both so pleased that I had come , by accident , to make their day perfect .
26	I explained that I had come to visit Blefuscu , as I had been invited .
27	It was not surprising that I had come to hate her .
28	I waited for a full hour before I caught a glimpse of the sight that I had come to see .
29	I peered down and for a moment believed that I had come on Percy Bysshe Shelley .
30	Someone who would smile when I walked into a room , look pleased that I had come home — not because they wanted something from me , but because I was me .