Example sentences of "who have come [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable ( crime ) , Ken Oxford ( later to be the chief constable of Merseyside ) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order , when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives , ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know ’ . |
| 2 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 3 | Julia , who had come to understand a little of Allegra Wallington 's character in the short time they had spent together , was as anxious as David to prevent that happening . |
| 4 | While this is good news for millions of borrowers and mortgage holders , it is not such a rosy picture for those people who have come to expect a healthy return from their savings accounts . |
| 5 | An open question , such as — " How should we deal with this man who 's come to do a survey for the railway company ? " — can be very intimidating . |