Example sentences of "[vb past] come [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sampson , like many others , had come looking for a kill before the numbers fell . |
| 2 | Half by desipience , half by proclivity , he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming . |
| 3 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 4 | It was certainly not what undergraduates at Oxford had come to expect from a lecturer . |
| 5 | He had come equipped with a bottle of white wine , pâté , French bread and fruit . |