Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] come [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey .
2 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 .
3 She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most .
4 If she had come to a pitiful and desperate end , this woman for one would not be sorry .
5 She had come to an unhappy house , that was clear .
6 As there is no soil at all on this rocky islet vegetation is almost non-existent , but we did come across a few tenacious rock plants growing from the guano in rock crevices .
7 Separation and divorce became inevitable ; it was a ‘ good divorce — non-violent and non-tumultuous … we had come to a real separating of the ways and it was obvious there was only one thing to do and we did it very simply . ’
8 And at the last him happened to come to a fair green way .
9 I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time .
10 They had come in a good strong box , which Boy had kept .
11 Yes and he 's very , very difficult to feed himself , to get the food in because , you know , he liked to come in a half past ten and bully me to cook things for him that 's why sometimes I used to run up to bed and pretend I was asleep .
12 It had come as an unpleasant shock to realize how much they knew : those employing the man , that was — the French Haute Police , as they called themselves .
13 That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks .
14 The regime was n't defeated although it had come to a dead end and the liberation movement did not conquer the situation although they made government impossible .
15 This was a clear breach of the understanding on which he had come on a joint mission to the pope .
16 He had come into an open place .
17 Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace .
18 He had come from a miserable place .
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