Example sentences of "[noun] have come [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It looks as if that car has come this way , ’ murmured Mary . |
| 2 | If any stranger had come that way it was likely he would think he was following the black road to hell . |
| 3 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 4 | The girl had come this way , she was sure . |
| 5 | As a matter of fact , from the physical realities of heat and cold have come many of our everyday analogies . |
| 6 | Royston CAB has come some way towards solving the shelf space problem and the updating costs of holding more than one information system in a bureau . |
| 7 | The Eberhardts have come all the way from Rio ! ’ |
| 8 | B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ? |
| 9 | His kingdom had come some considerable way from the remote and backward region it had been at the beginning of the seventh century . |
| 10 | It seemed churlish at this point to mention that Eitzel had come all the way from San Francisco and is one of the greatest songwriters humanity has ever known . |
| 11 | One visitor had come all the way from Israel to see the birds enjoy their supper : |
| 12 | An ’ if you 'll pardon the liberty , ladies , I reckon I 'd shirk my duty if two pretty young ladies had come all this way special . |
| 13 | From his innovations have come many developments opening the way for similar independently minded choreographers . |
| 14 | And how would poor , stooped Alice have come all this way on such an unlikely errand ? |
| 15 | From the VW stock cupboard have come such mouthwatering delights as the suspension and gearbox from the Group A Rallye Golf , the four-wheel drive system from the Syncro and a supercharger for VW 's well-known 16-valve 1.8-litre engine . |