Example sentences of "he [vb past] come [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ .
3 He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster .
4 He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial .
5 He had come a long way .
6 He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland .
7 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 .
8 Hoomey had not seen Nails there since , but had an instinct that he had come the following night too .
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