Example sentences of "who [vb past] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |
| 2 | The family slave boy , Metty ( the name means half-caste ) , who had come to live with him , is firmly left behind . |
| 3 | In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable ( crime ) , Ken Oxford ( later to be the chief constable of Merseyside ) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order , when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives , ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Lovat was enquiring about you earlier on , Piper , ’ shouted one of the medics who had come out of the barn to tend to the wounded . |
| 5 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
| 6 | Of the new ‘ Nepmen ’ , two were Jews who had come in from some other guberniia , and the other three all had military experience but little capital in goods or cash . |
| 7 | But Ramsey , who had come to love Halifax , wanted what Halifax wanted ; in such a case , in his view , the law does not care about trivialities . |
| 8 | We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows . |
| 9 | She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another . |
| 10 | One morning after breakfast and a prolonged peering into the mirror , Arty broke and screamed at Phil , who had come across to borrow a newspaper . |
| 11 | In fact it was his identical twin , whom nobody knew about , and who had come back to tidy up his brother 's affairs . |
| 12 | McLeish looked thoughtfully at Jennifer Morgan who had come in and was considering her father with what he was startled to recognize as dislike . |
| 13 | Men were crouched and waiting everywhere , covering the ones who had come out to meet us . |
| 14 | The place would be in a rush and a turmoil until they were all out in the field and Joe was sure enough of the neighbours who had come to help . |
| 15 | It was the girl who had come with the policeman . |
| 16 | I did indeed see him as a kind of Christ figure , perhaps as someone who had come to save me from myself , from my ineradicable loneliness of mind and soul . |
| 17 | Of all Faith 's friends , of all the correspondents and Visitors , who had come ? |
| 18 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 19 | Lord ( Cyril ) Radcliffe , a brilliant barrister who had come to attention by his achievements in the wartime civil service , succeeded Waverley that year , and lasted until 1977 . |
| 20 | But there were others who had traded with the Carolingian West ( coins of Louis the Pious and other Frankish objects have been found at Birka ) , who had come to know Christianity from their trading connections , and who formed the bedrock of Anskar 's support . |
| 21 | He followed her , howling and swearing , so that Teresa , who had come out of the kitchen at the tremendous noise , cowered against the door and put up her arms to protect herself from what she believed would be an attack . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , anyway , there 's no question of trying to get out now , ‘ he said aloud , addressing the cat who had come and perched beside him . |
| 23 | Gradually , over the years , I would piece together another family history ; of those who had come to Scotland in the terrible years of the 1840s , some of whom , indeed , had even been Irish Catholics . |
| 24 | The house was built for Neeld in 1835 by the architect James Thomson , who had come to Neeld 's attention with his book Retreats , ‘ a series of designs consisting of Plans and Elevations for Cottages , Villas and Ornamental Buildings . ’ |
| 25 | In particular he mentions one which his father had bought from a poor pedlar who had come to their door . |
| 26 | Simone was a wealthy French Canadian girl who had come to live with an aunt in Paris . |
| 27 | ‘ Worldly Paris mingled in these sessions with artists in sweaters who had come from the Rotonde and the Dôme … |
| 28 | A Mrs Dorothy Shepherd described a middle-aged man in a blue suit who had come running from the direction of Alfred Oliver 's shop . |
| 29 | By the fireplace , there was what was known as a ‘ Turkish corner ’ , protected by a screen , in which the Empress normally sat either to read or to talk informally with someone who had come to see her . |
| 30 | Only in the Empress 's own apartments was there any sign of normality , where Eugénie had installed herself with her personal maid , her secretary and a handful of courtiers who had come from Saint Cloud to be with her . |