Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have come [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously he had come to the heart of what he wanted to say . |
| 2 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she burst out hoarsely and started to fight in deadly earnest , slapping and scratching at him , little cries of panic coming from the back of her throat as her mind flashed back into full operation and she realised with sick fear just how close she had come to the edge . |
| 3 | Clearly we have come through the worst of the recession . |
| 4 | When she looked up he had come through the barrier towards her . |
| 5 | On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out . |
| 6 | I ca n't believe how far I have come in the past couple of years . |
| 7 | Kausmann shows how far we have come from the 19th century , when a girl 's linen box , full of beautifully embroidered monogrammed sheets , was part of her dowry . |
| 8 | I have to confess , I 'm afraid — and now we have come to the point of this long and circumstantial detour , of a sort which I assure you will not recur in these reports — that under the pressure of the circumstances I did a very foolish thing . |
| 9 | Originally they had come from the Dartmoor Pony Sale as weanlings the previous autumn and had spent the winter in a large stable . |
| 10 | ‘ We all feared this might happen and now it has come to the worst , ’ said one church-goer arriving for the service . |
| 11 | How far he had come from the silks and blissful hedonic acid and joyspike of the upper habs of Trazior . |
| 12 | How far he has come since the days in Harry Fischer 's office above the tobacconist 's , with the cosy office jokes and the lunch time beers in the pub ! |
| 13 | Well we 've come along the island of Stronsay now and at er the post office called Samson 's Lane and name which has always fascinated me really and er the sub-postmaster in charge here is Dennis . |
| 14 | Well we have come to the end of Mr 's list . |
| 15 | Regrettably we have come to the conclusion that whoever made the decision to refuse Mr Warner access at 4.45 pm was very probably motivated by a desire to have one last chance of interviewing the appellant in the absence of a solicitor . |
| 16 | He remembered every single one of the stolen meetings ; how he had gone to her bedchamber by night , how she had come into the warm drowsy afternoons to find him , when everyone was busy about something and no one knew where anyone was and she would not be missed . |
| 17 | If the DEA had used it to provide a cover identity for somebody in Egypt , it could hardly admit that in open court or explain how it had come by the certificate in the first place . |
| 18 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 19 | Privately I have come to the opinion that we never will , but I 'd never say anything as dispiriting as that in print … |
| 20 | Then Joseph realized why they had come upon the city so completely by surprise ; it was the uncanny silence . |
| 21 | We understand why he had come to the House today to denounce freeloading for the rich . |
| 22 | Recently I have come to the conclusion that treasure hunters should have their own exclusive museum . |