Example sentences of "have come to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled . |
| 2 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |
| 3 | ‘ On the question of whether the material which has been made available is sufficient to justify the initiation of a prosecution against Patrick Ryan he ( Mr Barnes ) has come to the clear conclusion that it is not sufficient for that purpose and that a prosecution would not be justified , ’ the statement said . |
| 4 | It is Possible that she might have come to the big city on her own . |
| 5 | ‘ There is no legal justification whatever ’ , he thundered , ‘ in saying that Meehan was wrongly convicted , and having heard all the evidence in this case , you might well have come to the clear conclusion that he was in fact rightly convicted . ’ |
| 6 | Wdowczyk , after only four competitive matches , looks one of the best players to have come to the Premier Division in years . |
| 7 | ‘ We seem to have come to the wrong place . ’ |
| 8 | It had to come to the nightly struggle with the big glass , like the struggle with Proteus , who must be held no matter what form he takes , bull , bear , fox , fire , water . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've come to the right place , then , ‘ she said cheerfully , leading the way inside . |
| 10 | You 've come to the wrong committee to try and get like a cash handout , but er we do appreciate the problems of putting on entertainments , and bops on campus . |
| 11 | ‘ Aye , well , lass , if you 're after wor Robbie you 've come to the wrong shop . |
| 12 | I could say that you 've come to the wrong place , but I wo n't . ’ |
| 13 | Women are gentler , softer , cleaner , altogether nicer things and I , who always considered myself one of the boys , had come to the surprising conclusion that the companion I Wanted most was a woman . |
| 14 | In music for court entertainments , masques and dramatic intermedii , a group of Florentine musicians influenced by a learned Humanist , Girolamo Mei , who had come to the correct conclusion that ancient Greek music had been monodic , mixed madrigals with a new kind of monody in ‘ another way of singing than the usual ’ ( un altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ) . |
| 15 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 16 | It was the closest we had come to the outside world in nearly four months yet they were responsible for the oil which glossed the harbour and had killed the coral . |
| 17 | He knew he had come to the right person . |
| 18 | They had come to the right guy ! |
| 19 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 20 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
| 21 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
| 22 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
| 23 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
| 24 | I had seen the island where time begins , and had come to the sorry realization that the Pacific , the vastest of all oceans , is a far more complicated entity — if indeed it could ever be regarded as such — than it was possible to imagine . |
| 25 | Merrill paused for a moment , wondering if she had come to the wrong address . |
| 26 | When Geoff came into the staff room on the alcohol problems unit I assumed he had come to the wrong ward . |
| 27 | It was as if she had come to the wrong place , as if the magic that shrivelled Cinderella 's full satins to limp rag had breathed over this place , enchantment vanished in the wood , only the old dank trees still and always there . |
| 28 | He had come to the banqueting hall in order to have a look at the river from the roof ; the river had risen and widened so much that the entire countryside seemed to be sliding past and one felt as if one were standing on the deck of a ship . |
| 29 | Both parents had come to the open evening and she had been able to talk to them . |
| 30 | We may forever want confidence that we have come to the ultimate facts about some physical process . |