Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] come [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 2 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |
| 3 | Their on-off relationship , which seemed to come to a sudden end two years ago , was re-kindled earlier this year with a romantic holiday to Mauritius . |
| 4 | I heard a voice which seemed to come from a long distance — ‘ Throw the bastard down . |
| 5 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 6 | In the final , Cowan met up with Mark Schofield ( Lancs ) , the number two seed who himself had come through a tough semi-final meeting with fellow Bisham boy , Philip Fowler . |
| 7 | She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most . |
| 8 | If she had come to a pitiful and desperate end , this woman for one would not be sorry . |
| 9 | She had come to an unhappy house , that was clear . |
| 10 | No encore was needed , despite the clamour for one and the band left knowing they 'd converted all who had come with an open mind . |
| 11 | No encore was needed , despite the clamour for one and the band left knowing they 'd converted all who had come with an open mind . |
| 12 | As there is no soil at all on this rocky islet vegetation is almost non-existent , but we did come across a few tenacious rock plants growing from the guano in rock crevices . |
| 13 | Separation and divorce became inevitable ; it was a ‘ good divorce — non-violent and non-tumultuous … we had come to a real separating of the ways and it was obvious there was only one thing to do and we did it very simply . ’ |
| 14 | And at the last him happened to come to a fair green way . |
| 15 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 16 | They had come in a good strong box , which Boy had kept . |
| 17 | Yes and he 's very , very difficult to feed himself , to get the food in because , you know , he liked to come in a half past ten and bully me to cook things for him that 's why sometimes I used to run up to bed and pretend I was asleep . |
| 18 | It had come as an unpleasant shock to realize how much they knew : those employing the man , that was — the French Haute Police , as they called themselves . |
| 19 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 20 | The regime was n't defeated although it had come to a dead end and the liberation movement did not conquer the situation although they made government impossible . |
| 21 | This was a clear breach of the understanding on which he had come on a joint mission to the pope . |
| 22 | He had come into an open place . |
| 23 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 24 | He had come from a miserable place . |
| 25 | Everyone had come for a good time , and they did not want it spoiling by some wildmen . |