Example sentences of "[pron] have come [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has come to see the Radio 1 Roadshow and be entertained . |
| 2 | The driver assumed that I had come to see the church at Eyam , with its special exhibition featuring the events of 1665 and 1666 , when the bubonic plague visited the village . |
| 3 | I nodded , cautious , not concerned with understanding ; because underlying everything he did I had come to detect an air of stage-management , of the planned and rehearsed . |
| 4 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 5 | THE GALLEY SLAVES : I 've Come To Kill The President |
| 6 | Tom thunders , ‘ Who the hell are you ? ’ , and I try to tell him I 'm Albert Fyles and I 've come to take the place of his regular caddie . |
| 7 | Sorry to interrupt , I 've come to collect the packet . |
| 8 | I 've come to declare the father to you . |
| 9 | ‘ No , maybe not , but even the routine work is interesting ; I 've enjoyed the accident prevention side of things and I 've come to realise the value of our chat-line ; then , of course , there 's my work at Conway House and I 've become totally involved with that . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've come to see the Fair , ’ I said conversationally . |
| 11 | I 'm here on urgent business , I 've come to save the world from self-destruction . |
| 12 | I 've come to read the meter . |
| 13 | I glance round the hall like I 've come to change the wallpaper , thirty years late . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've come to make a complaint . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've come to make an accusation . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've come to discuss a deal I 'd like to do with you , ’ he said . |
| 17 | I have come to declare the kingdom of God , that 's it among you ! |
| 18 | ‘ With the increasing pressure of everyday life I have come to realise the importance of finding time to exercise on a regular basis , ’ says Fergie , who is also the President of the Sports Aid Foundation . |
| 19 | I am Rudolf Hess , and I have come to see the Duke of Hamilton . |
| 20 | An example might be , from a spellcaster , ‘ I have come to study the magic atop the tower , my own master wishes to fortify his own Castle with a similar protection . |
| 21 | ‘ I have come to register a co-operative . ’ |
| 22 | As Jesus himself says ( Matthew 5:17 ) : ‘ Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets . |
| 23 | Jesus said some strong things about the Old Testament : " Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets ; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them . |
| 24 | Callinicos ' defence of classical Marxism , of historical materialism , is in the first instance deployed against a postmodernism which has come to proclaim the death of the grand narrative of emancipation and the need for a new form of politics not constructed along the lines of the traditional left . |
| 25 | First , to show that the means-end rationality which has come to dominate the thought of modern man as the form of rationality is simply one kind of rationality . |
| 26 | In a preface he drafted shortly before his death for a prospective collection of his verse , the man who has come to epitomize the soldier-poet wrote : ‘ Above all I am not concerned with Poetry . |
| 27 | Such interjections are clearly ironic as they are likely to be those of the ‘ trained ’ nouveau roman reader who has come to regard the decentring of the author as paradigmatic of contemporary experimental fiction . |
| 28 | It is that industry itself has come to hold a position of exclusive predominance among human interests , which no single interest , and least of all the provision of the material means of existence , is fit to occupy . |
| 29 | I think half the people who 've come to see the house suspect I 'm a sitting tenant . ’ |
| 30 | You know , I mean , what you 've come to stay the night ? |