Example sentences of "have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is less scorn in the novel than there had been in the article , and a pity that must have come as surprise to readers of his work . |
| 2 | Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined . |
| 3 | The smile may have come as a surprise to connoisseurs of the pictures of him which have been issued to the world . |
| 4 | Otherwise whoever it was would probably have come in from the corridor . |
| 5 | A little luck would not have come amiss , either . |
| 6 | ‘ I should n't have come , ’ said Lucy swiftly . |
| 7 | How could it have come about , he marvelled afresh , that they had parcelled it out and tied it up with strings of law ? |
| 8 | ‘ Soldiers from Stirling would have come by Crieff and Amulree , or if it is the Perth lot , then by Dunkeld and the lower strath . ’ |
| 9 | She wanted to see reconstructions of the accident , diagrams of how it might have come about . |
| 10 | It must have come from Colin 's collection . |
| 11 | I 'm waiting at Charing Cross station and I 'm wrongly dressed in a black hat and coat , whereas I should have come in jeans and a heavy Shetland jumper . |
| 12 | I am afraid I believe a caution would have come a great deal more quickly . |
| 13 | Before the darkness came , you might have come across him at times pushing a pramful of camping equipment , perhaps with a grandson straggling at his side , on some remote road through Eigiau , Abergeirw or Pennant Lliw . |
| 14 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 15 | Terence Bendixson reports on an idea whose time may have come . |
| 16 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 17 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 18 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 19 | For that to be true , the diesel must have come of age . |
| 20 | There was ‘ vague information ’ that the person concerned might have eaten an egg which may have come from the monastery , Mother Catherine said . |
| 21 | Kerry Evans said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that he asked Edward Browning about the blood , and was told that it must have come from an animal he had hit while driving to Scotland . |
| 22 | The case brought the diocese , and the parish , and its bishop , a little unwelcome publicity ; but not much ; for the world was tired of ritual quarrels , whereas sixty years before there would have come questions in Parliament . |
| 23 | Without the legislation , the UK legislation , of a series of British governments , the paraphernalia of a Commonwealth comprising eighteen kingdoms , five other monarchies of which the Queen is not the monarch , and twenty-six republics , with our sovereign as its purported ‘ head ’ , could never have come into existence . |
| 24 | If you have worked hard to develop a solid gigging career and no one is offering you a deal , the time may have come to approach record companies directly . |
| 25 | See , he said , I told you you should n't have come this way . |
| 26 | ‘ Only for you it could n't have come to anything . ’ |
| 27 | Leather , so luxurious you find yourself wondering whether it could really have come from a cow , finds its perfect match in glossy burr walnut . |
| 28 | There is no doubt that the two old ladies did a little plotting to marry their favourite grandchildren off to on another ; but without the events of 1979 their dearest hopes might never have come to be . |
| 29 | The invitation could not have come at a better time . |
| 30 | Although he was never a political defector , he said he probably would not have come back before President Gorbachev launched his perestroika policy . |