Example sentences of "[noun prp] have come [art] " in BNC.

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1 That overweight bounder Billy Bunter has come the most frightful cropper at the BBC .
2 Sylvie had come the closest she had ever been to begging .
3 The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ .
4 Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 .
5 From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space .
6 Foinavon had come a remote fourth in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park the previous December but few disputed that his starting price in the Grand National was a true reflection of his chance .
7 Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One .
8 Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head .
9 If we wish to measure the past in terms of life-expectancy , poverty , ignorance , disease , education , comfort and leisure , then there is no doubt that the modern world in the West has come a long way .
10 Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister .
11 From France has come a striker , Jean-Pierre Papin , a former ‘ best European player ’ .
12 The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 .
13 Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 .
14 MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this .
15 With this effort to deploy support for the arts in New York has come a proliferation of arts alliances , organizations and advisory committee .
16 Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old .
17 Just after Manning had come the agnostic Tyndall , talking about the identity of radiant heat and light ; and just before Stanley , the militant anti-christian W. K. Clifford had held forth on the education of the people , and especially on the importance of technical drawing .
18 There is no gainsaying the fact that London-born Eleanor Bowen has come a long way since her last exhibition at the Durham Art Gallery some eight years ago .
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