Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [adv] come " in BNC.

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1 A spokesman confirmed that they probably come from the Bremen Kunstverein , from which fifty paintings , 1,715 drawings and 3,000 prints went missing at the end of the war , and that experts are still examining them .
2 The 29-year-old Motherwell man , who has made an art form of fouling up on the big occasion , acknowledged that he too came close to calling it a day after the Olympics .
3 An analysis of news originating anywhere away from the line-of-rail showed that it frequently came from such a tour , which shows what difficulty the news media had in getting rural news .
4 Her reflections were interrupted by Dora , whom she had vaguely noticed rummaging in the boot of their car when she arrived and who now came striding towards them .
5 He must have heard what happened because he never came back .
6 ‘ We had a YMCA over the road — but I thought if I ever came back I 'd go into the Raffles Hotel . ’
7 He let the veteran British know exactly how he felt when they recently came face to face at a film festival .
8 We 'll both get out of your lives and then you can get on with that idyllic existence you shared before we ever came to this island .
9 Villagers said that none ever came at this time of year .
10 He said that his not coming back was much the best option for all of us .
11 ‘ Look at you , ’ my father said when I eventually came down in my dressing-gown to watch an old movie on the television that afternoon .
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