Example sentences of "have come [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I cast in and try to shrug off the disappointed , deflated feeling that has come over me since the anticlimax of the eel .
2 I am a recent subscriber , having recently renewed my subscription for a second year and I have enjoyed every issue that has come to me in the post .
3 BR could have come to us at the outset and said , ’ King 's Cross has to be the location for a whole series of railway reasons , but let us talk about how best to ensure that the building of the station has minimal impact on local people and their lives . ’
4 Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back .
5 Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone .
6 Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion .
7 In the 1477/8 parliament his position there was further strengthened by the exchange of Elfael , which had come to him with the Neville land but which was peripheral to his main Welsh interests , for the duchy of Lancaster lordship of Ogmore , which complemented his holdings in Glamorgan .
8 In the 1477/8 parliament his position there was further strengthened by the exchange of Elfael , which had come to him with the Neville land but which was peripheral to his main Welsh interests , for the duchy of Lancaster lordship of Ogmore , which complemented his holdings in Glamorgan .
9 It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind .
10 The idea of starting an airline had come to him on the demise of Laker Airways in February 1982 .
11 Then words had come to him from the sky .
12 In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue .
13 So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished .
14 He had come to her in the night .
15 I strongly felt that Resenence had come to me in the dream and yet , when I awoke , when the morning came , I told myself I had created it myself .
16 Jane had come to us for the time being .
17 A wonderful change had come over her since the episode with the cockchafers .
18 Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound .
19 We warmed our hands as though a sudden chill had come upon us at the mention of his name .
20 We have come through it to the extent that I am north and west Belfast Branch Secretary .
21 I have come across it on the American networks , where all script conferences are attended by a legal-looking chap whose only contribution is to say ’ We do not want to offend any groups ’ from time to time .
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