Example sentences of "[vb mod] have come [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I saw him , but he must 've come on the bus it 'd stop at the turn an' 't was about the time . |
| 2 | Given the possibility for agreement , albeit confused and for different reasons , from both left and right , legislation to enforce a National Curriculum should have come as no surprise to the educational world . |
| 3 | Having come from a country afflicted by the worst drought in recent memory it should have come as no surprise that the Namibians were able to handle the Sicilian heat . |
| 4 | So it should have come as no surprise that IBM , which can no longer afford to squander money on things that only might come good , has decided to stop financing Supercomputing Systems . |
| 5 | She realised that she was much too aware of him , but this should have come as no surprise . |
| 6 | idea of the theory , which is something that probably should have come at the beginning but it does n't matter too much . |
| 7 | The ‘ Far Eastern ’ memorandum was a superb and elegant paper even though , in its abstract idealizations of how colonialism should have come to an end , it sounded rather like a secular Sermon on the Mount . |
| 8 | ‘ You should have come to the concert , ’ said Beuno , getting to his feet . |
| 9 | It read , ‘ LNWR-BOILERHOUSE-PRIVATE ’ , and must have come off the boilerhouse door . |
| 10 | Must have come off the shepherd 's wellies , sir . |
| 11 | ‘ Whoever brought the message must have come across the wall , ’ Corbett murmured to himself . |
| 12 | Clovis 's death must have come as a relief to Gundobad . |
| 13 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 14 | For several years , we were twins , which must have come as a surprise to my mother , then slowly she fell behind as I pulled ahead , year after year . |
| 15 | Whatever one may argue for the value of research findings which ensue from this technique ( and certainly the publication of Down and Out must have come as a revelation to many people in present-day Britain ) the question must be squarely faced as to whether the social researcher has a right to deceive and manipulate people for research purposes . |
| 16 | At the age of 63 , Friedman seems in better technical shape than ever , and to many of the younger members of his substantial audience , these performances must have come as a revelation . |
| 17 | The coypu-control man must have come on a weekday , though , and it was with that hangover that Adam associated his coming . |
| 18 | I think they must have come to the flat . |
| 19 | To Leeds the news must have come like a blow from a steam hammer . |
| 20 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 21 | He must have come from the country for the lava-lava was rarely seen in the towns , however small . |
| 22 | I felt a sharp stab in my head so I reached up and found a piece of hay stuck in my hair , it must have come from the farm . |
| 23 | Kerry Evans said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that he asked Edward Browning about the blood , and was told that it must have come from an animal he had hit while driving to Scotland . |
| 24 | I 'm sure she 'll have come to no harm . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ They 'll have come by the villa , ’ said the Brigadier enigmatically . |
| 26 | ‘ I wondered if she might have come into the office on the Saturday ? ’ |
| 27 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 28 | Norman Pereira has drawn attention to four points between 1856 and 1861 at which , but for the tsar , forward movement might have come to an end . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought perhaps Stephen 's brother might have come to the party with you ? ’ |
| 30 | From the flamboyant tone in which the speculators discussed the prospects for Denwood , a stranger within its precincts might have come to the conclusion that he was standing upon ground which was destined to become the Winnipeg of the Middle West . |