Example sentences of "have [adv] come [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hyundai 's S-Coupe has always come at a bargain price — but until now it lacked the performance to match its sporty looks . |
| 2 | Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years . |
| 3 | However , no new phyla have appeared since the Cambrian period , some 500 million years ago , hinting , as Gordon Rattray Taylor once pointed out , that perhaps evolution has actually come to a halt . |
| 4 | and as soon as you 've parked , they 've obviously come from a home somewhere or from the hospital or whatever |
| 5 | Well , that was when it had all come to a head . |
| 6 | Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision . |
| 7 | Temple 's decision to increase its offer had not come as a surprise , he said , and the SeaCo board would meet next week to consider its response . |
| 8 | War or no war , the Government 's other business had not come to a halt . |
| 9 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |
| 10 | If you 've just come down a hill with your brakes on , |
| 11 | ‘ I 've just come from a session with Gladys Brown , a strange woman who has the room next to Meryl Armitage 's . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just come from a meeting with Bobby Anscombe . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've just come from a crossroads called Quatre Bras , sir . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes and no , ’ mumbled Hyacinth , to whom the news of the arrest and incarceration of the chairman of the YCs had just come as a surprise . |
| 15 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've not come for a drink . |
| 17 | A spokesman for the DTI acknowledged that the department had been broadly aware of the situation at Leyland-DAF in September but insisted that news of the receivership had still come as a surprise . |
| 18 | Although not unexpected , his death had still come as a shock . |
| 19 | Looking up at the sky , at the myriad pinpricks of light , it seemed to him that he could feel the turning earth beneath his feet and that time had mysteriously come to a stop , fusing into one moment the past , the present and the future ; the ruined abbey , the obstinately enduring artefacts of the last war , the crumbling cliff defences , the windmill and the power station . |
| 20 | And I think it would now be most unlikely for a speculative proposal that had n't come through a planning system to succeed . |
| 21 | One person had evidently come to a decision . |
| 22 | By early 1690 such tensions had again come to a head . |
| 23 | We have successfully come through a war . |
| 24 | Over the past 10 years we have already come from a situation where road runners were getting virtually nothing from the sport , to a far more respected and well-provided role . ’ |
| 25 | Matters have now come to a head . |
| 26 | Girls at the back of the room , we have n't come for a chat . |