Example sentences of "have come into [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , once the magazine has come into his possession , the man as it were acquires the right to treat the images on its pages in whichever way he chooses . |
| 2 | A few lines earlier ‘ wonder ’ has come into his eyes at the mention of Lothlórien . |
| 3 | A Wolf drill attachment has come into my possession . |
| 4 | It has come into my mind that he needs a wife , one of his own kind , to keep him company . |
| 5 | I 'm sure the word divorce has come into my mind er several times at the crisis points but by God 's strength you keep going and you grow . |
| 6 | It is their way of stressing that the Beyond has come into our midst , and we can neither organise nor domesticate him . |
| 7 | All other property which may have come into her possession can be disposed of freely by her . |
| 8 | St Paul would have walked the streets of Exeter ; he would have come into our schools and offices and shops ; he would have visited the cinemas and sports clubs and night spots ; he would have looked at the news programmes and the daily press and would have used what he saw and heard as fuel for prayer . |
| 9 | And let me tell you , if you were to have come into our servants ' hall on any of those evenings , you would not have heard mere gossip ; more likely , you would have witnessed debates over the great affairs preoccupying our employers upstairs , or else over matters of import reported in the newspapers ; and of course , as fellow professionals from all walks of life are wont to do when gathered together , we could be found discussing every aspect of our vocation . |
| 10 | Surely Landor 's lines about Ianthe ought to have come into his head if he could have remembered them . |
| 11 | She kept wanting to cry , as she had with Stephen , as she had for so much of the time since Timothy Gedge had come into their lives . |
| 12 | This generous man with guinea-gold hair had come into her life so unexpectedly , but she just knew that like a guinea he would slip through her fingers before she had a chance to know him better . |
| 13 | She stared up at him , touched to tears by his thoughtfulness , he had come into her life such a short time ago and yet he had been so good to her , so strong and kind . |
| 14 | He 'd done it again , she thought morosely , yet for a while , back there in the field , she 'd felt almost like her old self , the person she had been before Ryan had come into her life . |
| 15 | She stared at Lucenzo in consternation , sitting erect in the chair , unnerved by a terrible idea that had come into her head . |
| 16 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 17 | A week ago a man on the run had come into her house , he had been unkempt , his hair curling thickly about his face , he had not been as well groomed as the man standing before her now , but the breadth of shoulder was the same and something about the dark eyes staring into hers touched a chord . |
| 18 | The two sharp points of red that had come into her cheeks the night before were there again . |
| 19 | Between the date of Meehan 's conviction and his appeal a month later , Nicky told me , he had an astonishing piece of luck in that there had come into his possession a tape-recording of an interview with Griffiths taken some time previously for a programme the BBC had made at Gartree prison . |
| 20 | On the other hand , in the Spycatcher case Lord Goff decided that Peter Wright had a lifelong duty not to disclose confidential information that had come into his possession as an officer of the Secret Service . |
| 21 | An undue pressure of interest had come into his tone ( almost as if he were interested in the position himself ) , but Mrs Seymour-Strachey did not notice . |
| 22 | He was n't just pontificating , he was n't just starting out things he thought about , he and and , ideas that had come into his head , he spoke as one who had authority and because of that they heard him . |
| 23 | The reason for the exultation , the explanation of how this sense of craving had been mollified and a sense of sexual peace bestowed on the lyrics was simple : Marianne had come into his arms ; that golden apparition of loveliness , that lithe , sensuous , intelligent being of intuition and sympathy ; a gift of the gods to rank — and outrank — anything so far told in the surrounding mythology of his adopted Greek homeland ! |
| 24 | Rufus , yes , and Shiva sometimes and Shiva with Vivien , but it was a year since Zosie had come into his sleep and materialized before him . |
| 25 | If she had come into his mind he had operated his cancelling switch as he did when any of the denizens of Ecalpemos strayed into his thoughts . |
| 26 | Furthermore , in an attempt to reward men for military service and to encourage others to serve in France , Henry had pursued a policy of granting lands and titles which had come into his hands , thereby creating an important interest , other than his own , in the extension and maintenance of the conquest . |
| 27 | He had come into his earldom only two years ago , very shortly after the scandal which had sent Dunbar storming over the border into England in dudgeon , and asking for a safe-conduct to King Henry 's court ; for the old earl had died very soon after the coup on which he had staked so much , leaving this new Archibald Douglas to step into his shoes . |
| 28 | You mentioned that your luggage had been searched and someone had come into your room during the night and looked in your bag ? ’ |
| 29 | This was the first time she had come into my thoughts since I left England . |
| 30 | ‘ These people , ’ he said , ‘ had come into our home and had the right to restrain us . |