Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] have come [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I am afraid I have come to the conclusion , reluctantly , that the different people and races of the world were never intended to meet .
2 By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities .
3 ‘ Hello Joe , where are you going ? ’ would stop me every 50 yards ( unless you wear a turban they are convinced you have come from the US ) .
4 That what the inspector 's been telling us year after year , that we are in serious danger of not coming up to the protection safety standards , is something that we ca n't push into the background any longer and I 'm very glad it 's come to the full council so that the whole council can take it seriously the public protection committee has taken it seriously for a very long time .
5 He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant .
6 When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place .
7 By the turn of the century , the partnership of Jane Mason and G. Smith ran the mill , but by 1901 it had come into the hands of James Joiner , who had bought it from Crawshay and Co .
8 It was the closest we had come to the outside world in nearly four months yet they were responsible for the oil which glossed the harbour and had killed the coral .
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