Example sentences of "[noun pl] have come [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Several of the nails had come free . |
| 3 | And perhaps , sensing that matters have come full circle , some of that era 's pop idols are returning to host a new generation of adult oriented music shows . |
| 4 | But not one of the agency 's promises had come true . |
| 5 | But protests have come thick and fast from those who say it will bring even more traffic . |
| 6 | The ideas have come thick and fast — a basic tax at 12p in the pound with the abolition of all income tax allowances , a flexible school-leaving age between 14 and 18 so 14-year-olds would have the option of leaving for a job in which training is guaranteed , and the reintroduction of child tax allowances . |
| 7 | Manfred Stolpe , chairman of the Berlin-Brandenburg Church Consistory , admitted not all their dreams had come true but it was ‘ a start to the process of dialogue ’ . |
| 8 | The coins quietened the men 's agitation in the way that gold can , and Rincewind was amazed to find , half a minute later , that he was holding a little glass portrait of Twoflower wielding a huge notched sword and smiling as though all his dreams had come true . |
| 9 | A massive building society advertising campaign earlier this year has lured them into rates of 10% and 11% but since then the cost of borrowing has plunged , and these home owners have come unstuck . |
| 10 | DURING a memorable career , most of Don Howe 's wildest dreams have come true . |
| 11 | ‘ Most of my dreams have come true . ’ |
| 12 | A JILTED lover who took revenge on women by jabbing them in the rear with knitting needles has come unstuck . |
| 13 | One of her eyelashes had come unstuck . |
| 14 | As Theda followed , she began automatically to braid her long hair in a loose plait , searching among the tangle at her scalp for any pins that might have been left after the tresses had come loose from their moorings . |
| 15 | A quarter of a century ago the news broke that scientists had come near to taming the hydrogen bomb and turning fusion power into a source of energy for power stations . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | From his innovations have come many developments opening the way for similar independently minded choreographers . |
| 18 | The discreet grooming of the past few seasons has come alive this autumn with a splash of colour . |
| 19 | Two hotspots had come loose , damaging pistons and the block , Good buy ( sic ) one Land Rover Another garage has since told us that they would never carry out a hotspot replacement on a diesel Land Rover engine and that a new cylinder head is the only solution . |
| 20 | The soldiers had come five months earlier . |
| 21 | yeah so I chased off after it one of the little boxes had come loose and carted it back to the house I said your going to be a Christmas decoration whether you like it or not ! |
| 22 | But the benefits have come full circle , for the long master chronologies subsequently established for archaeological dating and calibration of radiocarbon results are now of just as much value to climatologists studying cycles in weather patterns associated with factors like sunspot activity and variations in the earth 's orbital parameters . |
| 23 | A recent example of how plans have come unstuck is the fate of the Japan-backed ASEAN plan for automobile components , where Indonesia 's intransigency has put plans for regional specialisation back on the drawing board . |
| 24 | With the new jobs has come wider ownership . |
| 25 | The instruments sometimes steamed up , the revcounter failed altogether and the carpet in both footwells had come adrift by the time the car had reached the end of its test . |
| 26 | The doors had come open and there was a voice on a public address system shouting something . |
| 27 | Only a few of the Christian residents appeared to notice that the Syrians had come prepared for more than just a few days ' stay . |
| 28 | Some alliances have come unstuck . |