Example sentences of "[vb past] come [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sabraxis had come to visit Lucien in his room as soon as he was well enough to converse . |
| 2 | I explained that I had come to visit Blefuscu , as I had been invited . |
| 3 | Jesus had come to restore mankind 's sight symbolism . |
| 4 | Wexford had come to talk business and yet for a moment he could not . |
| 5 | The time had come to take matters in hand . |
| 6 | I was nursing my mug of tea with both hands and taking short sips of the very hot liquid when a Commando arrived at the trench , stating that he had come to take Sid 's place on the Bren gun . |
| 7 | He cited the battle fought at the CPSU congress in July [ see pp. 37614-17 ] , a campaign of misinformation about Soviet policy towards the Gulf crisis ( an oblique reference to Soyuz ) , and a recent , much-repeated public boast by two deputies from the military , whom he described disparagingly as " boys with colonels ' stripes " , to the effect that having cleared Bakatin out of the way " the time had come to settle accounts " with Shevardnadze . |
| 8 | The loss of the two ports was serious , as the English now had only limited access to Normandy and to the capital , Rouen , which had come to replace Paris . |
| 9 | 10 years ago BBC1 's Last of the Summer Wine was going strong as Foggy and Clegg decided the time had come to replace Compo 's well-worn trousers . |
| 10 | The others , including the new drummer , had come to pick Keith up for a practice while I was there . |
| 11 | But she had not come to quarrel with Hester , she had come to see Willie . |
| 12 | She showed her warrant card and when she explained that they had come to see Nicola 's husband , the man invited them in . |
| 13 | We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl . |
| 14 | The Greens were still arguing over whether the time had come to loosen principle a little and elect a leader , a public face , perhaps Sara Parkin , the International Liaison Secretary of the UK Greens as well as the European Greens ' co-ordination co-secretary . |
| 15 | Oh , she knew she had learned a great deal during the last two years ; she also knew that a good part of herself was happy , mostly , she thought , because she had come to like Mrs Aggie and living in her house . |
| 16 | She had come to like Richard Ward , and like had deepened to love . |
| 17 | By the time the permissive climate of the late 1960s had come to allow boys and girls to admit tender feelings for one another , the first faint notes of anti-sexist protest ensured that girls would no longer be content to be victims awaiting rescue by dauntless boys . |
| 18 | But Ramsey , who had come to love Halifax , wanted what Halifax wanted ; in such a case , in his view , the law does not care about trivialities . |
| 19 | By the 1930s not only had admission to a profession become the goal of every middle-class family in the land , but they had come to seem bulwarks of society . |
| 20 | McAllister had gone out , but only to speak to Rose , who had managed to obtain a new post as a maid-of-all-work , and , her half-day off also being Wednesday , had come to ask McAllister to go up West with her again . |
| 21 | Mayorazgos had spread geographically outwards from Castile , socially downwards from the great houses — hence the creation of small ‘ abusive ’ entails by non-nobles — and had come to include movables — jewels , relics , and pictures . |
| 22 | Jacqui was on one end of a double-headed dildo when she decided that the time had come to turn Kattina in . |
| 23 | Dr Myerscough said : ‘ I have tried to put myself in the consultant 's shoes in this situation and I think his apparent instinct that he thought the time had come to induce labour was correct . ’ |
| 24 | Although she had come to dislike Dr McNab , believing him to have been indirectly responsible for her father 's death , she remained constantly at his side , helping him to care for the sick and wounded . |
| 25 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 26 | Hence the word had come to mean nonsense . |
| 27 | " Leftism " suggests opposition to existing policies or institutions , and within the labour movement it had come to mean dedication to rapid socialization of the economy whether through parliamentary or revolutionary methods ( see below , chapters 12 , 13 , and 15 ) . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , rightfully or not , Zambia had come to mean trouble to Leila . |
| 29 | Self knowledge for him had come to mean recognition of his own weaknesses and shortcomings and nothing more . ’ |
| 30 | IF Stakis shareholders had come to bury Caesar last year then they were there to praise him at yesterday 's annual general meeting in the Normandy Hotel in Renfrew . |