Example sentences of "[pers pn] have come [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gendarme on duty at Boulogne Police Station looked surprised when I said that I had come to join the French Foreign Legion . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've come to use the fair as promotion , and I think everyone is returning to this idea after the end of the bonanza period . ’ |
| 3 | I 've come to win the British Open ! ’ |
| 4 | Now I 've finished researching this issue of NI , I have come to hate the very word ‘ population ’ . |
| 5 | Now I 've finished editing this issue of NI , I have come to hate the very word ‘ population ’ . |
| 6 | No longer could she take any pleasure in the act ; almost she had come to hate the interminable travail . |
| 7 | Benedicta , cooler and more composed , was listening attentively to some story the nobleman was telling her , though now and again moving slightly away from him as if she had come to resent the young gallant 's attentions . |
| 8 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 9 | We had come to see the Manx shear waters . |
| 10 | We have come to expect the premeditated dishonesty of Conservative Central Office to be reprinted in the Daily Mail , but we do not intend to allow it to go unchallenged in the columns of Hansard . |
| 11 | In modern times we have come to associate the very word ‘ ecology ’ with a concern for the environment — yet ‘ ecology ’ is properly the name of the science that deals with the ways in which living things interact with one another and with their environment . |
| 12 | Clearly these are important categories in that they have come to define the narrative expectations on which genres play , but it is important to recognize their limitations . |
| 13 | Its own root is ‘ thought ’ , and from that it has come to mean the inner debate of a person who is reasoning with himself . |
| 14 | It has come to expect the steady increase in the standard of living that new developments in science and technology have brought to continue , but it also distrusts science because it does n't understand it . |
| 15 | The sentence comes from an essay called Eztetyke du Rêve , an eccentric spelling of Esthétique du Rêve ( ‘ Aesthetic of the Dream' ) in which , building on the idea that ‘ the dream is the only right which can not be forbidden ’ , Glauber Rocha described how he had come to realise the revolutionary importance of the mystical in Latin American popular culture . |