Example sentences of "who have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ask Tor , who has come across to see how I am coping , if this is normal , a guarded , off-the-cuff way of informing him that I am shit-scared and would like the weather to change . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll take a quick break for some tea and then we should be ready to run it up in another hour , ’ he briefs Captain Tuck-Brown , who has come across to check on progress before going home for the day . |
| 3 | Yet during their tenure of office both have had to deal with a Russia now run by an apparently liberally minded head of government who has come to the conference table willing to reduce arms at a rate that the West sometimes finds embarrassing . |
| 4 | Such interjections are clearly ironic as they are likely to be those of the ‘ trained ’ nouveau roman reader who has come to regard the decentring of the author as paradigmatic of contemporary experimental fiction . |
| 5 | The object of this sort of servants ' hall talk is invariably some butler who has come to the fore quite suddenly through having been appointed by a prominent house , and who has perhaps managed to pull off two or three large occasions with some success . |
| 6 | As John of Climacus said : ‘ The man who has come to know himself is never fooled into reaching what is beyond him . |
| 7 | If he is to succeed , Simpson might have to rely heavily on his father , Gordon Simpson , a former finance director of Shell who has come on board as deputy chairman . |
| 8 | ‘ NEARLY man ’ is an overused term in sport , a label that is often attached to anyone who has come remotely near to making an impact in their chosen vocation before failing to reach the exalted heights expected of them . |
| 9 | Ann , the daughter of Joe 's partner , was Larry 's fiance/1e , and now wants to marry Joe 's surviving son , Chris , who has come through the war unscathed . |
| 10 | Tina Howe 's Painting Churches shows her in full flight , as the wife of a distinguished Boston poet and the mother of a women painter who has come to do their portrait . |
| 11 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 12 | If it is your mother-in-law who has come to live with you , even greater efforts will usually be required on both sides if there is to be peaceful co-existence , for this is always a challenging relationship ( there are not too many Ruths and Naomis around ) . |
| 13 | Usually such classes only run once a year , which may leave someone who has come to the point of decision too late for that year 's class in limbo for several months . |
| 14 | They are all faced with the power of God in Jesus who has come to destroy them . |
| 15 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher cited two different routes : a recommendation of a consultancy from a referral source , i.e. an executive who has come into contact with the headhunter on a previous assignment ; and by direct experience of a particular search firm from the user point of view from a Kingfisher executive who had employed that firm on a previous occasion , before he worked for Kingfisher . |
| 16 | But it is surely not the will of God that a gentleman who has come here to practise medicine … |
| 17 | Who has come to stay . |
| 18 | We all want to hear our distinguished visitor who has come to us to make the final arrangements with those going to Eretz — and with any others who might want to go , too ; there 's still plenty of time , it 's never too late . |
| 19 | The term associate publisher was also , said RH chief executive Gail Rebuck , and appropriate one ‘ for someone who has come to the top of the tree ’ . |
| 20 | He could scarcely put more vividly the truth that the Spirit who has come upon Christians is the Spirit of Jesus , and that our destiny will involve the suffering and the hardship of the Servant of the Lord That is why he is determined to know nothing among these Corinthian enthusiasts but ‘ Jesus Christ , and him crucified ’ ( 1 Cor. 2:2 ) . |
| 21 | Jesus , the Christ , is the one who has come through the water of his baptism , through the blood of his cross , and is mediated to us through the Holy Spirit . |
| 22 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 23 | In a preface he drafted shortly before his death for a prospective collection of his verse , the man who has come to epitomize the soldier-poet wrote : ‘ Above all I am not concerned with Poetry . |
| 24 | ‘ Juval Aviv is a very astute investigator who has come up with some very plausible explanations , ’ he said . |
| 25 | " Apart from making slow progress with my music " , Wagner wrote to his future father-in-law , Franz Liszt , in 1854 , " my sole concern recently is a man who has come like a gift from heaven … into my solitude . |
| 26 | Few , however , will have been as well-prepared for this as Don Cruickshank , the ; new director-general of the telecommunications regulator , Oftel , who has come to the post after three years as the first-ever chief executive of the National Health Service in Scotland where public controversy , as he put it , ‘ is part of the job ’ . |
| 27 | In fact , John Serbrock , who has come to the Amstel from the Conrad at Chelsea Harbour , reckons that they would be 10–15 per cent higher if the hotel was in London . |
| 28 | This week our guest on Sharing Time is Erlend who is one of the survivors of the Piper Alpha disaster and is one who has come back to Orkney this last week , staying with his family here in Orkney . |
| 29 | It 's the least I can do for one who has come for a bush walk and then finds the project nipped in the bud by her own willingness to help . ’ |
| 30 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |