Example sentences of "[pers pn] have come [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | and then other , like this morning I woke up about quarter to seven , well I 'd been awake a while but I thought I 'd came to at quarter to seven I went down and make some tea and having breakfast |
2 | I had to come to grips with a lot of things in a hurry . |
3 | I had to come to grips with how my understanding of the sovereignty of God applied in that situation . |
4 | Everything here seemed so unreal that I had to come to terms with it as soon as possible , so that I can begin work . |
5 | Three weeks later at a meeting I knew I had to come to the point where I said yes or no to Jesus . |
6 | ‘ I had to come to terms with the fact that I could lose my baby at any time to a foster mother . |
7 | Yeah I had to come to erm so I thought erm , I tried to ring you yesterday , your phone was out of order . |
8 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
9 | And then there were the the dose was reduced and then I had to come off them altogether and after twenty nine years of dieting unsuccessfully I gave up dieting and I have n't put on any weight since I gave up dieting ! |
10 | Well as I actually had to going round the corner , to get myself round the corner , I had to come off the brake and onto the accelerator |
11 | I had to come into town anyway ; it was only a short detour to your place . |
12 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
13 | ‘ I had to come before two great nations died . |
14 | I had to come round this way this morning to get to Whitehall It 's just so chock-a-block on that new ro roadway . |
15 | While I was searching for some Arab property in the area , I had come across three young Palestinians standing beside a shabby food stall on the waterfront . |
16 | It was the first time I had come across the word . |
17 | For years , I had been reading and re-reading his novels , ever since I had come across Prester John at my prep school . |
18 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
19 | It was so unlike anything I had come across before . |
20 | This was not the first time I had come across the concept of ‘ Quality ’ as meant in this context . |
21 | He asked me in German what I had come for but I said ; untruthfully , ‘ Nicht verstehen . ’ |
22 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
23 | I had come to Lofoten to photograph these beasts in real mountains for my forthcoming catalogue , so I pushed away . |
24 | Moving and inspiring though all this was , in fact I had come to Eyam to attend the opening of Eyam Hall , in the village , by the present Duchess of Devonshire . |
25 | I had come to Mecca and now I was seeing God . |
26 | I had come to the top of a long hill , so steep that the wheelbarrow was almost wrenched from my hands as the descent began . |
27 | In my job , I had expected the sick and the dying to trust God , and I had come to the Sahara hoping to discover whether I myself would keep the faith in adverse circumstances . |
28 | I had come to Zurich from an ‘ off ’ period — it was my first race since the Commonwealth , a gap of about three weeks . |
29 | For the first time since I had come to the college I had access to student political material because my boyfriend was reading the posters , leaflets and student newspapers to me . |
30 | It happened that I had come to ‘ cut and sew ’ necklines in class . |