Example sentences of "have come to a [adj] pass " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what more could Miss Waters do but affirm that if one could not perform one 's Christian duty without being treated as a busybody then the parish had come to a sorry pass ? |
| 2 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 3 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 4 | In the name of Allah , things have come to a pretty pass if the tabloids are influencing England 's selection policy . |
| 5 | But things have come to a pretty pass when obesity is confused with the wobbly bits the good Lord designed for girls — the bits that should stick out at the front and back of a strapless ballgown . |