Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christmas Eve assault has only just come to light because the 13-year-old victim was too terrified to report it earlier . |
| 2 | Peter Chapple-Hyam , his trainer , says that Rodrigo de Triano , winner of the Middle Park Stakes , has only really come to himself this week . |
| 3 | The road has only recently come to Uçagiz ; the whole area emanates a powerful feeling of being on the edge of the world . |
| 4 | He 's not seen me , they 've gone straight past , he has not yet come to terms with the fact that his mummy 's a queen . |
| 5 | A guilt compounded by the suicide five years ago of his sister Angela ( nine years his senior ) , with which he admits he has not yet come to terms . |
| 6 | He has not yet come to a conclusion on that . |
| 7 | This RTP ( reduce to products ) contract was expected to last two-and-a-half years , and has just about come to an end after less than two . |
| 8 | We may well find that what we are saying comes to others as God 's word with prophetic power , as it has already so come to us . |
| 9 | What happened next was to so profoundly influence the way the typesetting market operated that it still has n't fully come to terms with the consequences . |
| 10 | ‘ Colonel Fagg has never quite come to terms with the end of the Second World War , I 'm afraid , Elsa . |
| 11 | Third , we will set down the perspective of the Left within the Labour Party — the party that has very belatedly come to an awareness of the significance of constitutional politics and of the need for change . |
| 12 | They were likely to make trouble , having not yet come to terms with the hurried departure of Mrs Thatcher following upon the events of November 1990 . |
| 13 | It had only just come to be important before the ‘ unnatural ’ town of the industrial revolution conjured up some of the most dramatic and ‘ romanticized ’ of contrasts . |
| 14 | Chopra had glimpsed into the mind and understood ; an understanding which had only recently come to him , as his body aged and his life-force drained away . |
| 15 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 16 | She was suffering as he must have suffered ; and if he knew her pain might he not come to her , as she had so often come to him , gently reminding her that despair was an unavoidable but essential ordeal , of the quest ? |
| 17 | Mr Hill said attempts by Liverpool to start discussions between the two airport companies had so far come to nothing . |
| 18 | They had long ago come to terms with that sorrow . |
| 19 | Tony 's tragic death , that terrible ending of his young life , was something she had long ago come to terms with . |
| 20 | The party had not yet come to terms with the departure of Mrs Thatcher and was suffering an identity crisis . |
| 21 | The " literature " to which Playfair refers is , of course , classics rather than English literature ( which had not yet come to be seen as an adequate instrument of " culture " ) . |
| 22 | It was unlikely that anything he might discover had not already come to light . |
| 23 | I had not only come to faith . |
| 24 | In her heart of hearts Celia knew that she had n't really come to terms with her condition at all , but she could n't say so point-blank to Alison . |
| 25 | Many of the people on my courses on dying , for example , had never really come to terms with the inevitability of death in their own lives , and many a time we had to stop to allow distressed and upset people to leave the room . |
| 26 | There were letters from the boy here in his closet , no more than a week old , cold-blooded enough in their analysis of the military situation since Grey 's loss , and ruthless enough in their acceptance of the necessity to deal in extremes in the last resort , but still arguing the advantage of restraint , even daring to suggest that Lord Grey 's capture made no substantial alteration in the case for negotiation , since he was the original party to the complaint which had never actually come to a judgment under law . |
| 27 | All attempts to engineer a dialogue between the two have so far come to nothing , whether through UN Security Council resolutions in a sequel to the bilateral Camp David peace between Israel and Egypt in 1978 , or through attempts to associate the PLO leadership with either Jordan or Egypt in the direct talks between them and the Israelis from which the latter have always recoiled . |
| 28 | Both international links have so far come to nothing — the SFE link having been effectively abandoned for the time being , and the CBoT accord never having been implemented . |
| 29 | Historians recently decided to lower the estimated number of Auschwitz victims , from 4m — a figure chosen by Soviet soldiers who liberated the camp in 1945 — to between 1m and 2m , an estimate based on transport documents which have only recently come to light . |
| 30 | The first of these statements , which have only recently come to light , was by Lt-Col D M C Worrall MC and Maj J G Denny MC of the Durham Light Infantry : " On the evening of 15 May the handover of Croatian personnel to the YUGOSLAV ARMY was proceeding . |