Example sentences of "[pers pn] have come [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 2 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |
| 3 | Over the past year , I 've come across a dozen or more men of my age who are with women who simply are n't willing to give it all up for a baby . |
| 4 | I 've come of a new |
| 5 | I 've come to a tremendous decision today . |
| 6 | ‘ You see , ’ the chief inspector went on , ‘ I 've come to a dead end . ’ |
| 7 | I feel I 've come to a full stop and so does Toby . |
| 8 | ‘ I have come on a scientific investigation to rectify the freak effect which brought those poor unfortunates , ’ he waved at the screen , ‘ to this forsaken place . |
| 9 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 10 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 11 | ‘ And so you 've come on a friendly visit ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You 've come at a gay bad time . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's rather busy — you 've come at a bad time , I 'm afraid , Miss Holbrook . |
| 14 | And then we go back to the point which Mr Cunnane wanted to raise and they 've had their lunchtime discussions , see whether you 've come to a some form of agreement or resolution on that . |
| 15 | She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most . |
| 16 | If she had come to a pitiful and desperate end , this woman for one would not be sorry . |
| 17 | If you have come with a particular ache or pain , do not expect it to disappear straight away . |
| 18 | You have come into a classical company which makes sense of that training but what other ingredients do you think vital ? |
| 19 | Separation and divorce became inevitable ; it was a ‘ good divorce — non-violent and non-tumultuous … we had come to a real separating of the ways and it was obvious there was only one thing to do and we did it very simply . ’ |
| 20 | From this experience we have come to a new recognition of the marginalisation of North American cultural and ethnic groups . |
| 21 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 22 | They had come in a good strong box , which Boy had kept . |
| 23 | They have come to a full stop . |
| 24 | They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place . |
| 25 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 26 | The regime was n't defeated although it had come to a dead end and the liberation movement did not conquer the situation although they made government impossible . |
| 27 | This was a clear breach of the understanding on which he had come on a joint mission to the pope . |
| 28 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 29 | He had come from a miserable place . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sad that it folded , but it 's come at a good time , ’ she tells me . |