Example sentences of "[noun sg] have come [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It looks as if that car has come this way , ’ murmured Mary . |
2 | The wheel has come full circle . |
3 | Thus the wheel has come full circle : the main feature in the design of the primitive sickle is included — much to its advantage — in the latest models of the combine harvester . |
4 | Maybe , thought Jaq , that was where the Callidus experiment had come unstuck … if indeed it had come unstuck . |
5 | And then he thought , this is queer so he picked the bonnet took the bonnet up like that and all the bloody front of the car had come loose and all all the welding |
6 | If any stranger had come that way it was likely he would think he was following the black road to hell . |
7 | The wheel had come full circle since the heady days of expansion after the Robbins Report in 1963 . |
8 | And with Anglicanism had come fox-hunting and golf . |
9 | The first two parts of her prediction have come true ; Lovat being wounded , and my safe return to England . |
10 | Of course , death and bereavement have come thicker and faster here . |
11 | Ideas become a bit confused by the fact they feel a dream has come true . |
12 | My dream has come true ! ’ |
13 | Along the way , each thinks often misguidedly , that their own particular dream has come true — a clever reflection of human world and our shared history . |
14 | A lifetime 's dream has come true for an ardent suitor . |
15 | And the column has come three times , each time in the late afternoon . |
16 | The dream had come true . |
17 | His dream had come true . |
18 | My dream had come true . |
19 | The girl had come this way , she was sure . |
20 | As a matter of fact , from the physical realities of heat and cold have come many of our everyday analogies . |
21 | If this is indeed the case , the significance of Jesus ' words to the congregation as he gave back the scroll , ‘ This passage of scripture has come true today , as you heard it being read ’ ( Luke 4:21 ) , is even more poignant . |
22 | There was jubilation that a local team had come first . |
23 | Even when she passed the two-furlong pole , some five lengths off the leaders , she knew she had them ; but if the post had come ten yards earlier , she would never have got up . |
24 | The lad had come prepared . |
25 | Two buttons of her blouse had come unfastened . |
26 | In that instant all she wanted was for him to take her in his arms again ; to know the sweet pressure of his mouth on hers and to feel once more the way her body had come alive beneath his hands . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Cadfael could not choose but feel some sympathy for one whose dubious but daring enterprise had come full circle , and now threatened him with disgrace and punishment ; all the more as Cadfael himself had just been spared a possibly similar exposure . |
29 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
30 | At that point , Benn had to admit , ‘ my aims to encourage further trade with Russia [ as well as Romania ] and to break through this whole strategic nonsense have come unstuck . ’ |