Example sentences of "he have come to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At length , the passage he has been stooping along opens out somewhat into a low chamber : he has come to the shrine of a goddess .
2 By the time he arrives in front of Ronald , he has come to the boil and the pate is registering off the scale of visible light .
3 Then it was as if he had come to a decision . ’
4 Then , while shopping in Fore Street one morning , he was approached by Timothy Gedge , who smiled at him as though nothing untoward had occurred between them and asked if he had come to a decision about donating the curtains .
5 As he stared at her he knew that he had come to a crossroads , that if he gave in to her now he 'd have to give into her again and again and again .
6 When nothing happened , and he realised that he had come to a place without facilities , he retired for another consultation .
7 He told me that he had come to the Legion so that he could kill people without going to prison .
8 He had come to the village at last light bearing a balaclava helmet , a webbing belt and trousers , and a mess tin all belonging to the Presidential Guard .
9 He would go and see him as soon as they got back to school and tell him everything that had happened since he had come to the school .
10 Once he had come to the throne , Charles quickly answered this call for religious change by promoting notable Arminians to positions of prominence in both church and state .
11 But he may also have intended to remind those present that he had come to the throne as a result of the treaty he had made with Edmund , which according to Florence of Worcester established peace , friendship and brotherhood between them .
12 Before he expected , his feet met blocks of stone , and he realised that he had come to the edge of the great sprawling tip of the infill .
13 Obviously he had come to the heart of what he wanted to say .
14 By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities .
15 He had come to the place where God was but had not encountered the ineffable reality itself .
16 But the truth is that he was never to publish poetry again : he had come to the end of his creative life .
17 The director , Andrew Warren , admitted that even in that citadel of energy conservation he had come to the conclusion that the savings would not justify the cost .
18 On 22 February the Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Peter Rees , had minuted the Prime Minister saying that the Chancellor and he had come to the conclusion that the Government should aim to save £2 billion from the social security review by 1987–8 .
19 But whereas he had come to the conclusion by the beginning of 1936 that Mussolini was probably not the man to play this game , he remained cautiously optimistic that Hitler might be .
20 He always took Celia flowers and sometimes books or magazines , but he had come to the conclusion she never read them .
21 ABOVE The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei ( 1564–1642 ) , who got into trouble with the Roman Catholic Church because he stated in public that , as a result of his observations , he had come to the conclusion that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe .
22 He had come to the conclusion that the Queen was unlikely to abdicate ( nor is there a hint that he would like her to ) , and that therefore he had to make his mark as Prince of Wales rather than as King .
23 He had come to the corner , and turned it ; and beheld the carriages .
24 On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out .
25 We understand why he had come to the House today to denounce freeloading for the rich .
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