Example sentences of "[verb] have come to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the reward and an extensive search of the area police enquiries seemed to have come to a halt . |
| 2 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 3 | There was likely to be more interest in a member of the family who seemed to have come to the boil than in Sara who would cost time and patience to bring to blood heat . |
| 4 | Mrs Gray seemed to have come to the end of what she wanted to say . |
| 5 | ‘ If they wanted to keep out of trouble they would n't have bothered to have come to the police station . ’ |
| 6 | At any rate you seem to have come to no harm . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We seem to have come to the wrong place . ’ |
| 8 | One notable absentee from the squad is Lee Crooks , once rated invaluable by Reilly , who appears to have come to a career crossroads . |
| 9 | Because of the now universal use in England of the Historical year system , it is normal for reference books to mark events of all kinds which happened between 1 January and 24 March in any one year with a double indicator — thus King Henry V may be judged to have come to the throne on 21 March 1412/13 , that is 1412 by Annunciation reckoning , but 1413 by Historical ( now conventional ) reckoning . |
| 10 | Free Range Egg production having taking off in the 80's , seems to have come to a halt , if all that we read and hear is true . |
| 11 | With the death of Tixier-Vignancour a distinctive line of French politicians seems to have come to an end . |
| 12 | Fortunately , the rain seems to have come to an end just in time — and , in any case , Hermann Duckek , recognised as the world expert on producing artificial surfaces , says that a downpour could easily be dealt with . |
| 13 | In music , the quantitative usage ( ‘ well favoured ’ ) seems to have come to the fore in the eighteenth century — alongside the development of a ( bourgeois ) commercial market in musical products ; and when , in the first half of the nineteenth century , songs for the bourgeois market ( including what we would now call ‘ drawing-room ballads ’ ) were described as ‘ popular songs ’ , the intended implication seems to have been that they were good ( that is , well liked by those whose opinion counted ) . |
| 14 | James Price 's words eased the immediate worries of the villagers but for many of the older ones the world they had always known had come to an end . |
| 15 | City had not won a League game at Portman Road for 30 years , and had not scored in their last seven visits , but the jinx looked to have come to an end when Gary Flitcroft 's first senior goal for the club gave them a 37th minute lead . |
| 16 | Mr. Collins 's primary submission was that , at any rate so far as the eliciting of information from the applicant himself was concerned , the investigative process contemplated by sections 1(3) and 2 of the Act of 1987 must be taken to have come to an end at the time of charge , and to have been replaced by the process of prosecution pursuant to section 1(5) . … |