Example sentences of "which have come into the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They in turn have by defeat lost their rule which has come into the hands of the British .
2 Later the same year he was appointed to the custody of various Welsh castles and honours which had come into the king 's hands on the death of George de Cantilupe [ q.v . ] .
3 In 1281 he was commissioned by the king to search the chirograph chests for all deeds relating to Jewish debts , which had come into the king 's hands through the forfeiture of the creditors concerned , and then to levy those debts for the king .
4 Sixty-eight of the ninety family names recorded in the 1720s , that is three out of every four , were those of families which had come into the parish since the Elizabethan period .
5 Sir Hugo Mallinger , in life as in architecture , does not want to reproduce the old , but his house is specifically contrasted with Grandcourt 's Diplow , ‘ a comparatively landless place which had come into the family from a rich lawyer on the female side who wore the perruque of the Restoration ’ .
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