Example sentences of "come [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice said , " I have come to report on an agreed squat — you know , short-term housing — surely you know … " |
| 2 | The best rugby , though , was yet to come stemming from a tigerish rally inspired by a local lad . |
| 3 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 4 | ‘ And you 've come to listen to the sean nós ? ’ |
| 5 | In your shoes I 'd have expected him to come prepared with a big stick . ’ |
| 6 | Having come prepared with a warm coat , mackintosh , and umbrella , I braved the elements , and sat on the open stand to watch this enjoyable match , as did quite a few others . |
| 7 | In particular , Keyes had come to identify with the Romantic movement , and it was Heath-Stubbs who was able to broaden Keyes 's base by tracing for him the origins of Romanticism in primitive legends through the medieval to the Augustan poets . |
| 8 | And No. 6 displays both the breath-taking pianism we have now come to expect with a compositional skill to which one can only take one 's hat off . |
| 9 | Choosing the right diet is the key , and to make it easy for you we have devised a three-part series , Slim Plan ( page 81 ) , backed by all the knowledge , research and thorough testing you have come to expect from the Good Housekeeping Institute . |
| 10 | The game is very playable and the graphics are flicker free as we have come to expect from the top shareware authors . |
| 11 | It has been a day which commenced so stunningly with the horse and carriage procession , swept forward with the harmonious , soaring , musical arrangements at the wedding ceremony , and has culminated in the utter perfection of the gourmet dinner , all in keeping with what we have come to expect from the organizational abilities of one of the world 's paragons . |
| 12 | She was not beautiful , and hardly fey as he had come to expect from the fair sex , but there was something undeniably compelling about her . |
| 13 | Englishness , as a sense of racial or spiritual identity , had come to function as a stabilizing force within the field of professional English studies , rather than providing the authority for a programme of cultural intervention . |
| 14 | But he said Cardow ‘ had come armed with a lethal weapon and used it to penetrate the deceased 's body nine times . ’ |
| 15 | He had a streak of red paint across the back of his uniform , so one at least had come armed with the essential spray can . |
| 16 | Since 1986 's ‘ It 's Only A Long Way Across ’ , his songs have come wrapped in an electric blanket which has been soaked in the bog-holes of Ireland and then dry cleaned in the side alleys of Greenwich Village . |
| 17 | You 've come to hear about a far yester-year and the life of Marie Grubbe , if I 'm not mistaken ! ’ |
| 18 | The time has come to leave behind the national humiliation and recriminations that have resulted from sterling 's suspension from the ERM |
| 19 | Those which happen to come to rest in a non-absorbing direction will absorb no more photons , and will thereafter stay put . |
| 20 | The Padre was unable to find any word at all ; his eyes had come to rest on the golden letters " Holy Bible " on the back of Fleury 's razor blade . |
| 21 | She said that had been his double and he 'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him . |
| 22 | Melanie had been told they had come to live in a great city but found herself again in a village , a grey one . |
| 23 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
| 24 | Life or death has come to depend on the proper functioning or malfunctioning of super-sensitive equipment over a couple of seconds . |
| 25 | The new directly assessed tax had come to stay as the main supplement to the King 's ordinary revenue ; although fifteenths and tenths were generally granted in conjunction with subsidies for the rest of the century , the latter were much more productive . |
| 26 | Yet such criticism and dismay were in themselves testimony to the degree of reliance which the Americans had come to place on the special relationship — especially outside Europe . |
| 27 | Then she has to stroke the horror away from me , like sluicing down a dog that 's come barking from a dirty river . |
| 28 | It has also come to rely on the part-time staff made available by the Association pour le Fouilles d'Archeologie Nationale , which in turn depends largely on private money , although it is in the charge of the Ministry . |
| 29 | At every stage , the media must insist upon its right to investigate and to print public interest stories ; if it is right in its identification of the public interest , it is unlikely to come to harm in the long run . |
| 30 | Pluvial and arid periods had always alternated but at some point the latter must have come to dominate in a prolonged drought . |