Example sentences of "have [adv] come [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The task of maintaining existing production levels has therefore come to consume a higher and higher share of national output .
2 Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met .
3 If the Germans had not come to short-change the paying public , the play of Duncan Ferguson , in particular , also shaped up to be worth the admission money alone before Scotland fell behind .
4 Because I had not come to make a personal contribution I was able to see Africa with open eyes .
5 Pious persons disapproved of its use in any circumstances ; by mid-century they had also come to deprecate the mesmeric trance , which was associated with the activities of spiritualists ( see chapter ten ) .
6 The people , by this time , had also come to regret the whole incident and they beseeched him to stay .
7 Marriage had now come to occupy the same central position in her mind as religion had formerly : on it all her hopes were based .
8 The enterprises have also come to play a symbolic role in broader governmental strategies , epitomizing , for example , certain styles of managerial behaviour and of labour relations which both the Conservative and the PSOE have aimed to reform .
9 He has I have n't come to call the righteous , but sinners to repentance .
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