Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have [adv] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In approaching the wife 's defence I have regretfully come to the conclusion that the judge has overlooked two critical points of distinction between her case and that of the husband . |
| 2 | ‘ In that case I 'd better come with you , ’ Woodruffe said . |
| 3 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |
| 4 | It was a sort of cabaret to the main business of the halt , which was the consumption of quite a lot of a bear which had incautiously come within bowshot of Hrun . |
| 5 | ‘ In the car you 've just come from , madam , ’ I answered helpfully . |
| 6 | A new easel which has recently come onto the market is Daler-Rowney 's Town and Country easel . |
| 7 | A new easel which has recently come onto the market is Daler-Rowney 's Town and Country easel . |
| 8 | I need more certain light in which to catch and express the sense of exultation which has suddenly come upon me . |
| 9 | But the jurist allows it to be treated as inhering in the legacy , charged on the sum of money which has now come to Maevius . |
| 10 | Her knees seemed to have turned to water , her mind still reeling under the impact of the devastating revelation which had just come to her . |
| 11 | The measure was condemned by some economists as crude and ill-conceived , particularly since it threatened to wipe out the personal savings of many ordinary people : Soviet citizens were generally disinclined to place their money in accounts with the state savings bank , either because of mistrust , or because the low interest rate provided little incentive , or because it was necessary to carry a large amount of cash in case of chancing upon a scarce commodity which had suddenly come into stock in a state shop . |
| 12 | Then his gaze moved to Merrill as Heather pulled Rob away to meet a small group who had just come into the room . |
| 13 | But suppose now suppose I were a middle-aged to elderly teacher who had never come across dyslexia until recently and was now aware that he or she had dyslexic pupils , the first thing to do , I think , is to inform yourself . |
| 14 | To attack a new chair for the conduct of one organisation which has just come into being and to attack him as chair-designate for another organisation which has not yet come into being , seems extremely odd and unwise to me . |
| 15 | The panel did n't review supermodel Cindy Crawford 's new video which has already come under fire in some fitness circles but Mr Dickinson adds : ‘ It clearly contains some of the exercises the panel had elsewhere criticised as outdated ’ . |
| 16 | Lord Taylor , the Lord Chief Justice , sitting with Mr Justice Judge and Mr Justice Hidden , said they could not be sure that the original trial jury would have reached the same verdict if it had heard evidence which had since come to light . |
| 17 | " I say , you do n't happen to know how this blessed thing works , do you ? " he asked the person who had just come into the music-room . |
| 18 | It is in fact directed against the protesters ' own parents — especially the father — and is intended to take the place of the infantile and adolescent reproaches and criticisms of the parental authority which have now come to be directed at each and any cultural equivalent of the father . |
| 19 | It is the second role which has recently come into greater prominence . |
| 20 | ‘ If you 're looking for trouble you 've definitely come to the right place , ’ said actor Christian Slater , host of the three-hour awards show telecast on the cable network from Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 21 | He remembered the many faces of Sylvie , the child-woman with the mischievous glance who had stolen apples in the Paris market , the girl he had obsessively trailed , the passionate creature who had boldly come to his flat and pleasured him to the point of pain , the frightened child who pushed him away and clung to him simultaneously . |
| 22 | Hands tingling with fear , hearing only the thundering of her heart , Isabel stepped over the threshold to confront the wife of the man who had once come to her aid , and whom she must now betray . |
| 23 | Pleasingly , however , though to energise her heart into a few racing beats , Moira Russell came out almost immediately and , holding the door she had just come through open , smiled and said , ‘ Mr Massingham will see you now . ’ |
| 24 | He 's like a dictator who 's just come to power and does all the awful violent things at once , like changing the laws and murdering people and confiscating everything — then later on it 'll all be taken for granted and he can play at being kind and good . ’ |
| 25 | After Danny de Vito showed his skills as a director in Wars of the Roses he used his leverage with the money-men to bankroll a long-cherished project which has finally come to the screen as Hoffa . |
| 26 | Penelope went hopefully into the vicarage where she found Sophia smiling over a letter which had just come by the evening post . |
| 27 | Now follow the first backwards pointer ( i.e. back to the node we have just come from , e.g. from the ‘ c ’ node back to the ‘ d ’ node ) , and take the next route forwards again ( to the ‘ l ’ node , giving another complete candidate string ljadl ) . |
| 28 | It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself . |
| 29 | ‘ I do not know if I even have strength enough to regain the shelter I have just come from … ’ and her wings seemed to weaken by the second and her eyes to be pained . |
| 30 | While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City . |