Example sentences of "have come [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 The second psychoanalytic message that has come through to the public is its preoccupation with sex .
2 ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’
3 Top flight football should have come back to The Valley .
4 We 've come down to the wine
5 that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as
6 It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold .
7 In common with some other contributors to Essays in Criticism he had come around to the view that the object of English should be to develop in students a " trained mind " rather than to produce " literary critics " or even " good readers " .
8 Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast .
9 He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post .
10 At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed .
11 I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ?
12 Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it .
13 That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down .
14 It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well .
15 They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities .
16 But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man .
17 Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray .
18 This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been .
19 The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes .
20 After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School .
21 It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field .
22 She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside .
23 But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways .
24 He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them .
25 The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face .
26 Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies .
27 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 .
28 In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it .
29 On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her .
30 Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held .
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