Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] come [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Johnson camp has come to prefer Charles Taylor , the third self-proclaimed president and a man Mr Johnson was once keen to shoot . |
| 2 | James Spader has come to prefer impotence to sexual deception . |
| 3 | Now that the Regional Geophysics Group is part of TMOS , the opportunity has come to redesign parts of the Geophysics Core programme to integrate it more effectively with other activities . |
| 4 | She asked how Blufton had come to establish TV London . |
| 5 | The author of Mining the Earth , John Young , argues that " mining has come to rival water erosion as a force for changing the landscape " . |
| 6 | And the borough planning committee had come to know Jack Murphy very well indeed . |
| 7 | Many in the ANC had come to regard Buthelezi , the Chief Minister of the " self-governing " homeland of KwaZulu , as a " sell-out " by virtue of his collaboration with the Pretoria government in the discredited homeland system . |
| 8 | It is an electrolytic deposit technique , and the process has come to supersede Sheffield plating . |
| 9 | In trying to answer the question " where does a child 's control of his or her native language come from ? " , two contrasting theoretical explanations have come to dominate discussion . |
| 10 | Because they 're concerned about America 's oil dependence , senior government officials have come to rub shoulders with the advocates of conservation and alternative power sources . |
| 11 | Jesus had come to restore mankind 's sight symbolism . |
| 12 | Keeper Mike Hooper had come to meet John Humphrey 's harmless through ball , but Nicol inadvertantly lifted it beyond him and Thorn followed up to head into the unguarded net . |
| 13 | In Chapter 1 we saw how institutional investors have come to dominate shareholding in the International Stock Exchange . |
| 14 | In the epistle to the Hebrews ( by an unknown Christian of learning and sophistication ) there is equal emphasis both upon the spontaneity and fullness of Jesus ' humanity and upon the faith that in him the eternal Son of the Father has come to unite believers to himself ; he is the pioneer of our salvation , our representative bringing to the Father and to the heavenly company those who put their trust in him . |
| 15 | This is good news to anyone who has witnessed the way art museums have come to regard paintings and other objects placed in their perpetual trust as a kind of stock portfolio that can be traded at will . |
| 16 | All three girls planned to come to revive Monaghan Day . |
| 17 | The man has come to barter hippo ivory earrings for cigarettes and a Chinese fishing net . |
| 18 | He might even allow himself a wry laugh when he considers how the West has come to excoriate Ceausescu today , after all those years when they applauded his ‘ daring ’ dissent from Warsaw Pact orthodoxy , and acting as a thorn in the Kremlin 's body politic . |
| 19 | Hence the word had come to mean nonsense . |
| 20 | While searchers toil , people from all over Holland have come to see Bijlmermeer burn — and to collect souvenir shrapnel . |
| 21 | The sad thing about the past decade is that , by playing upon ( and then hijacking ) the legitimate fears of their secular compatriots , these ideologues have come to dominate Israel 's politics . |
| 22 | In Kahlo 's work there is a powerful mix of these discourses , yet her role as an archetypal woman painter has come to dominate responses to her work . |
| 23 | The inquiry said the deferment of projects involving large capital expenditure , frequency of reorganisation within BR , and lack of control of projects did not stem from any individual 's decision , but ‘ from the way in which the railway has come to do things . ’ |
| 24 | Sabraxis had come to visit Lucien in his room as soon as he was well enough to converse . |
| 25 | The plane had come to rest nose down , but also tipped to one side , and the only thing that had stopped her being thrown about like a rag doll was her seatbelt . |
| 26 | The Prince had come to know Van der Post in Kenya two years before , when he had been his guide on safari . |
| 27 | IF Stakis shareholders had come to bury Caesar last year then they were there to praise him at yesterday 's annual general meeting in the Normandy Hotel in Renfrew . |
| 28 | Thus , by the end of the book , Artegall has come to learn self-control which ensures his victory over uncontrolled savagery . |
| 29 | Wexford had come to talk business and yet for a moment he could not . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , rightfully or not , Zambia had come to mean trouble to Leila . |