Example sentences of "[pers pn] have come into [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to come into town anyway ; it was only a short detour to your place . |
| 2 | One of them was Guardsman Johnny Cooper who had managed to join the Scots Guards while still under age and who was very impressed by his commanding officer : ‘ he was different from the officers I had come into contact with up to that time . |
| 3 | Since my wife was diagnosed with the illness , I have been researching alternative cures during which time I have come into contact with the ‘ Association stop au cancer ’ based at 29 Bd Gambetta , 73000 Chambery Cedex , France . |
| 4 | During the time I have been working for the playgroup I have come into contact with about 200 children . |
| 5 | ‘ She has come into season , ’ said trainer Micahel Kauntze . |
| 6 | Hilary had put far more into this office than the basic duties of a committee chairman and had presented a most favourable image of the Society and its work to all with whom she had come into contact . |
| 7 | She was therefore at some pains to explain that the only reason she had come into Perugia at all was because of an appointment with Ivy Cook , of all people , who had telephoned her earlier that morning . |
| 8 | During that time , and especially since the publication of The Obair Report in December 1988 , we have come into contact with many other groups and individuals who share our concerns about government policies in the area . |
| 9 | How could they have come into existence in the first place without malicious midwives ? |
| 10 | Provided , therefore , that the basis of the distinction between and was originally geographical-and it must be emphasized that this is only one possible explanation , albeit perhaps the most tenable on-it seems likely that they had come into currency before the middle of the sixteenth century , before the distinction between the geographical locations of the medreses had begun to become blurred . |
| 11 | Since then they had come into contact over one or two smaller matters , and it was to him that Greg naturally went in the aftermath of Hilda Machin 's death . |
| 12 | Incidentally , though Walker is held to be still more than a touch rusty after so long away from rugby — inclined , for instance , to carry the ball under the wrong arm — the rapidity with which he has come into cap contention ought to be food for thought for our own Jamie Henderson . |
| 13 | The frequency with which controversial legislation is amended by Parliament itself ( as witness the Act of 1974 which was amended in 1975 as well as in 1976 ) indicates that legislation , after it has come into operation , may fail to have the beneficial effects which Parliament expected or may produce injurious results that Parliament did not anticipate . |
| 14 | The faintly mocking tone in his voice forced her back to reality , and she snatched her hand away from his hair as though it had come into contact with burning oil . |
| 15 | The ground rules had been set in Australia , but the ground had changed , and It had come into existence . |
| 16 | If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use . |
| 17 | The Ministry of Defence said that Belgian ammunition of that particular batch had never been supplied to the British Army , and how it had come into Britain was unknown . |
| 18 | He too was worried ; not for himself because he , as a prisoner-of-war , was protected by the Geneva Convention , but for the nuns and me and everyone else with whom he had come into contact . |
| 19 | An employee had been electrocuted when working on the magnetron assembly line of the company 's Thornaby-on-Tees factory , which was engaged in another stage of the microwave oven manufacturing process , when he had come into contact with exposed conductors . |
| 20 | It was as though he had come into work on a Sunday . |
| 21 | He had come into Merrill 's office ostensibly for paper-clips , and now he stood with his back towards her , staring out of the window on to the rain-swept traffic below . |