Example sentences of "[pers pn] have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nature before me has come this way , |
| 2 | One of them has come back . |
| 3 | In May I 've come to stay . |
| 4 | Erm you know if if we are going to try to keep going as a viable group then yes one of the things we should consider I mean I I do n't I 've come here sort of thinking oh is this it , is this the crisis meeting or |
| 5 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 6 | As I turned away and headed back the way I had come I passed two dead cows lying on the grass , large shrapnel wounds on their bodies . |
| 7 | Not wishing to remain in this part of the farm one moment longer , I picked up my rifle and dashed back the war I had come , taking advantage of the cover offered by the farm buildings . |
| 8 | I had come to Lofoten to photograph these beasts in real mountains for my forthcoming catalogue , so I pushed away . |
| 9 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 10 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 11 | Soon I had come out of the field and was walking along the path opposite where my home would be . |
| 12 | I had come home late from being with friends on Christmas Eve . |
| 13 | About five weeks before that I had come home in my first university term , and got undressed for my bath in front of the bathroom mirror . |
| 14 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 15 | By the end of the evening I had come to feel sorry for the waiters who had so debased themselves by their participation in the comedy ; not because they were cheating the state , but because they never responded to anyone except as an object , a part of the system in which they were trapped . |
| 16 | The driver assumed that I had come to see the church at Eyam , with its special exhibition featuring the events of 1665 and 1666 , when the bubonic plague visited the village . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 19 | I had come on leave first , so I was first to return . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 22 | One of them was Guardsman Johnny Cooper who had managed to join the Scots Guards while still under age and who was very impressed by his commanding officer : ‘ he was different from the officers I had come into contact with up to that time . |
| 23 | I had come from the hotel expecting to return , and was quite unprepared . |
| 24 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 25 | There was little conversation : nothing had happened in Dent that day worth the telling , and it was none of their business to ask where I had come from and where I was going . |
| 26 | I had come to Mecca and now I was seeing God . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The questions of who I was , where I had come from and where I was going struck them with confusion . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was too cold and windy to sit and wait , though , so I limped back the way I had come , embittered at having to walk unnecessarily . |