Example sentences of "come true " in BNC.
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| 1 | If those worst fears were to come true , the Soviet-American consensus in the UN would quickly disappear — and with it the body 's best hope of effectiveness . |
| 2 | The longer the race went on , the better Devon Loch jumped , and as he soared over Becher 's Brook on the second circuit no runner was going better : the Queen Mother 's dream of winning the Grand National was about to come true . |
| 3 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 4 | The objective helps you to be clear about what you have to do in a bid to get it to come true . |
| 5 | I have to point out that she is wasting her life caught up in waiting for her thoughts and ideas to come true in reality . |
| 6 | But this one was to come true almost immediately , without my even lifting a finger . |
| 7 | Dreams are precious , and should be valued , even if you know that they are unlikely to come true . |
| 8 | And a lot of people realise that the things they thought they were going to do ( marry for love and have three children ) or hoped to do ( swim for Great Britain ) are less likely to come true . |
| 9 | Kelly 's dream was one most girls of 11 would expect to come true . |
| 10 | Dreams set to come true |
| 11 | EVERY pupil 's nightmare is set to come true , thanks to Education Secretary John Patten . |
| 12 | At first their predictions seemed destined to come true . |
| 13 | UNHAPPY rail passengers ' dreams are about to come true with the right sort of leaves on the line . |
| 14 | In 1968 , the watershed year of the student riots in Paris , when most of the new generation of radicals were denouncing the Labour Party as hopelessly fuddy-duddy , he had joined up , believing it would one day become the focus for a new alliance of Right-On movements , Now , more than a decade on , his dream was starting to come true and the new radical politics were about to be released on an unsuspecting populace — with mixed results . |
| 15 | This was the part he had dreamt of night after night in that living room and now — astoundingly — it was to come true in the birthplace of Shakespeare with a great company all around his son . |
| 16 | Most men agreed that the most satisfying fantasy occurs before they first go to bed with a new partner — when having sex is a fantasy that' almost bound to come true . |
| 17 | For a moment , he thought that his wildest dreams were about to come true : she was staring back at him in a deep , soulful way that he was sure meant love . |
| 18 | Only a government which really works to promote free enterprise can provide the right conditions for that dream to come true . ’ |
| 19 | Do we really want our dreams to come true ? |
| 20 | Pray for my wish to come true , I need eleven P , have you got eleven P ? |
| 21 | Manfred Stolpe , chairman of the Berlin-Brandenburg Church Consistory , admitted not all their dreams had come true but it was ‘ a start to the process of dialogue ’ . |
| 22 | The first two parts of her prediction have come true ; Lovat being wounded , and my safe return to England . |
| 23 | The dream had come true . |
| 24 | Now it has come true . ’ |
| 25 | His dream had come true . |
| 26 | Ideas become a bit confused by the fact they feel a dream has come true . |
| 27 | The dreams of his youth , when he was a tough , small-time bookie around the dog tracks of London , had long since come true . |
| 28 | A dream come true for Katharine Mahoney recently when she won a lesson with Britain 's most successful dressage rider , Jennie Loriston-Clarke , in a Today 's Horse competition . |
| 29 | DURING a memorable career , most of Don Howe 's wildest dreams have come true . |
| 30 | One month before the Institute 's pilot scheme to open Council meetings to the press and the public has even begun , that prediction has already come true . |