Example sentences of "who [vb past] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Kidd said he already had anecdotal evidence of US conventions pulling out of the UK : ‘ One conference of surgeons and one group of insurance sales staff , who planned to come to London for two weeks , could not find a hotel they were happy with . ’ |
| 2 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 3 | Students who drop out or who fail their college courses are often those who failed to come to terms quickly with their new environment and to make the necessary personal adjustments to fit into that environment . |
| 4 | Secondly , could an outsider have walked into the Lodge quite openly on Friday night before eleven o'clock and been taken for a member by anyone who happened to come across him ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Do you remember that old lady who kept coming in for Roald Dahl , saying he was a woman ? ’ sobbed Denise . |
| 6 | I think Leonora Stem has made a tentative identification with a young Mr Thomas Hearst of Richmond who liked to come and play the oboe with the ladies . |
| 7 | The high cost of the meeting , though , kept away many bright young people , and the older established scientists who did come presented familiar work . |
| 8 | One deaf person who did come through to play a leading role in deaf affairs was David Fyfe . |
| 9 | By the nature of her role she was not known by very many of the boys , but those who did come into contact with her had no trouble in recognising both a first-rate musician and a first-rate teacher . |
| 10 | Yeah er you know , we had an understanding that if erm because there were times when we wanted to just have some time together , or to pray together , and erm you know people who did come in and out to the flats , we erm told them that if th we were in and we did n't answer the door , it was actually because we were either doing something that we could n't come . |
| 11 | However , amongst those who did come we had a good combination of past experience and new ideas . |
| 12 | The children who did come were not familiar . |
| 13 | Now these people who did come as visitors went through all of this , and then they would spend the rest of the evening in the Mess . |
| 14 | Unlike Roman Catholics , who had to come to terms with the use of the vernacular , Anglicans had used English for four hundred years . |
| 15 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |
| 16 | The family slave boy , Metty ( the name means half-caste ) , who had come to live with him , is firmly left behind . |
| 17 | In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable ( crime ) , Ken Oxford ( later to be the chief constable of Merseyside ) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order , when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives , ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Lovat was enquiring about you earlier on , Piper , ’ shouted one of the medics who had come out of the barn to tend to the wounded . |
| 19 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
| 20 | Of the new ‘ Nepmen ’ , two were Jews who had come in from some other guberniia , and the other three all had military experience but little capital in goods or cash . |
| 21 | But Ramsey , who had come to love Halifax , wanted what Halifax wanted ; in such a case , in his view , the law does not care about trivialities . |
| 22 | We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows . |
| 23 | She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another . |
| 24 | One morning after breakfast and a prolonged peering into the mirror , Arty broke and screamed at Phil , who had come across to borrow a newspaper . |
| 25 | In fact it was his identical twin , whom nobody knew about , and who had come back to tidy up his brother 's affairs . |
| 26 | McLeish looked thoughtfully at Jennifer Morgan who had come in and was considering her father with what he was startled to recognize as dislike . |
| 27 | Men were crouched and waiting everywhere , covering the ones who had come out to meet us . |
| 28 | The place would be in a rush and a turmoil until they were all out in the field and Joe was sure enough of the neighbours who had come to help . |
| 29 | It was the girl who had come with the policeman . |
| 30 | I did indeed see him as a kind of Christ figure , perhaps as someone who had come to save me from myself , from my ineradicable loneliness of mind and soul . |