Example sentences of "[pers pn] have come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was searching for some Arab property in the area , I had come across three young Palestinians standing beside a shabby food stall on the waterfront . |
| 2 | It was the first time I had come across the word . |
| 3 | For years , I had been reading and re-reading his novels , ever since I had come across Prester John at my prep school . |
| 4 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 5 | It was so unlike anything I had come across before . |
| 6 | This was not the first time I had come across the concept of ‘ Quality ’ as meant in this context . |
| 7 | He asked me in German what I had come for but I said ; untruthfully , ‘ Nicht verstehen . ’ |
| 8 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 9 | I had come to Lofoten to photograph these beasts in real mountains for my forthcoming catalogue , so I pushed away . |
| 10 | Moving and inspiring though all this was , in fact I had come to Eyam to attend the opening of Eyam Hall , in the village , by the present Duchess of Devonshire . |
| 11 | I had come to Mecca and now I was seeing God . |
| 12 | I had come to the top of a long hill , so steep that the wheelbarrow was almost wrenched from my hands as the descent began . |
| 13 | In my job , I had expected the sick and the dying to trust God , and I had come to the Sahara hoping to discover whether I myself would keep the faith in adverse circumstances . |
| 14 | I had come to Zurich from an ‘ off ’ period — it was my first race since the Commonwealth , a gap of about three weeks . |
| 15 | For the first time since I had come to the college I had access to student political material because my boyfriend was reading the posters , leaflets and student newspapers to me . |
| 16 | It happened that I had come to ‘ cut and sew ’ necklines in class . |
| 17 | I told him that I was English , an ex-paratrooper and that I had come to be a legionnaire . |
| 18 | ‘ I said I had come to the time I knew myself . |
| 19 | Émile permitted himself the luxury of imagining I had come to Paris just to see him . |
| 20 | I had said that we should go to Egypt for this , not believing that the occasion would ever really arise ; that I should be married to Syl and taken to the country in which I had come to life and lost it . |
| 21 | We talked about the school , about Oxford , my family , about teaching English to foreigners , about why I had come to Greece . |
| 22 | I had come to the conclusion that there was no way of putting them back . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | That was what I had come to . |
| 25 | I had come to Uganda to observe how the women use music to give advice , support each other and express their need for political identity . |
| 26 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
| 27 | It is necessary I had come to that view for me , at that time it was necessary for me to contact one of the duty Chief Officers and on this occasion it was the Assistant Chief Constable Mr , so I made contact with him . |
| 28 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 29 | I mean if I 'd have if I 'd have , if I had come to the last one |
| 30 | I had come on leave first , so I was first to return . |