Example sentences of "he [verb] come [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come a long way since he worked as a production runner with James Wong Howe and Martin Ritt in a coal-mining village in Pennsylvania . |
| 2 | He has come a long way from the rough-edged , bearded Glaswegian to the rich , Hollywood smoothie , all tan and haircut . |
| 3 | Either way he has come a long way in a very short time , especially for someone who left journalism for PR at the age of 22 after failing to break into daily newspapers . |
| 4 | So if he starts coming the old soldier she can bung him out . |
| 5 | Oh he adores her , oh yes he wants her back , and I said , she said , I , you see , I know him , I said there 's a lot to be said for a chap that you know inside , know his ways and know how to cope with them , but I said never ever put yourself at his mercy , I 'm marrying him , and the house will be hers , you see , when there properly divorced it 'll be in her name so if he starts coming the old soldier , she can bung him out . |
| 6 | The counsellor feared that would be the last she heard from him so she was pleasantly surprised when he did come the following week , bearing a letter from Susie in Denmark . |
| 7 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 8 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 9 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 10 | He had come a long way . |
| 11 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 12 | Bazin , 60 , a former World Bank economist , had been the candidate of the right-wing Movement for the Establishment of Democracy in Haiti ( MIDH ) in the presidential elections of December 1990 [ see pp. 37911-12 ] , when he had come a distant second behind Aristide . |
| 13 | Hoomey had not seen Nails there since , but had an instinct that he had come the following night too . |
| 14 | He 's come a long way since then — but underneath he 's still the same determined , death-defying Barry Sheene . |