Example sentences of "[conj] they have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's not an immediate problem , it just occurred to it 'd be nice to have you know I 've I 'm writing a list of the recordings as they come in and where they 've come from . |
| 2 | There was one early proposal about archaeology which became a series called The Blood of the British , where they had come in with the idea of the series . |
| 3 | While servitors were bringing food and wine , the visitors accounted for themselves , where they had come from and what had transpired , the situation at Berwick and over on the West March . |
| 4 | Puzzled , I finally twigged where they had come from : the synthetic rock — supposedly safe — that I had decorated the tank with . |
| 5 | This time in the hotels I particularly noticed how many people of different tongues were also staying there — all babbling away and making me wonder who they were and where they had come from . |
| 6 | Send us your clippings , stating clearly where they have come from and the date . |
| 7 | Elaborate procedures are set out to ensure that both the exporter and the importer know what the wastes are , and where they have come from . |
| 8 | Individuals in this group typically stated that they had become ‘ sick of the life ’ or they had come to ‘ hate smack ’ . |
| 9 | In general , this does not apply to local employment , because the newcomers either retain their employment in nearby towns and commute to work or they have come to the countryside to retire . |
| 10 | They drove back more carefully than they had come , Rory well aware of every aching mile , all thirty-five and more of them . |
| 11 | Some bibles say that , that they 've come to this , at the end of the day , they had n't quite , had it at that point anyway , cos they 'd approached it cos they were still alive were n't they ? |
| 12 | ‘ Do you think they will grow here ? ’ he asked , impressed that they had come all the way from London . |
| 13 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 14 | Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house . |
| 15 | Nutty realised afterwards that they had come within a hairs-breadth of total disaster . |
| 16 | Two men talked their way into the home of two elderly sisters , pretending that they had come on behalf of neighbours to cut down trees in the garden . |
| 17 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 18 | Brian felt that they had come to the end of that day 's talk . |
| 19 | Onlookers admitted to me that they had come simply to see the tragic spectacle of the naked bodies — some of which were badly burned . |
| 20 | However , the task of a new nanny was made all the more difficult because the children , bewildered and unhappy , felt that they had come to take the place of their mother . |
| 21 | If , moreover , at this early date , sizeable Nazarean enclaves existed as far distant as Syria , one can not ignore the possibility that they had come into being prior to Jesus 's death and were already established at the time of the Crucifixion . |
| 22 | But they were undoubtedly a constructive way of bringing labour and capital together to resolve their problems peacefully in an atmosphere of mutual recognition and compromise.For this reason , given that employers and governments were willing to accept that trade unions had a function and that they had come to stay , they appeared to the Labour Department of the Board of Trade as its functions developed in the early years of the twentieth century , to be especially useful in dealing with some of the conflicts between labour and capital in which it increasingly became involved . |
| 23 | She showed her warrant card and when she explained that they had come to see Nicola 's husband , the man invited them in . |
| 24 | It turned out that they had come to consult me . |
| 25 | I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control . |
| 26 | Provided , therefore , that the basis of the distinction between and was originally geographical-and it must be emphasized that this is only one possible explanation , albeit perhaps the most tenable on-it seems likely that they had come into currency before the middle of the sixteenth century , before the distinction between the geographical locations of the medreses had begun to become blurred . |
| 27 | The Aborigines who were with me , and of whom I must speak in the highest praise , for the readiness with which they rendered me their assistance , affirmed , upon learning the nature of my pursuits , that they had come to meet me . ’ |
| 28 | It is not that academic critics make a conscious effort to imitate their colleagues in the sciences , it is that they have come to adopt their concept of knowledge , and its professional servicing and supportive structures . |
| 29 | Their visits break many of the established patterns of human/dolphin encounter : they accept gifts of dead fish ( one theory is that the dolphins receive the fish as a signal from humans that they have come to play and interact ) , and they maintain their own social grouping while at the same time allowing close human contact . |
| 30 | Clearly these are important categories in that they have come to define the narrative expectations on which genres play , but it is important to recognize their limitations . |