Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have come [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blanket had come unrolled and twice he brought himself down with it . |
| 2 | And then he thought , this is queer so he picked the bonnet took the bonnet up like that and all the bloody front of the car had come loose and all all the welding |
| 3 | The wheel had come full circle since the heady days of expansion after the Robbins Report in 1963 . |
| 4 | The wheel has come full circle . |
| 5 | Thus the wheel has come full circle : the main feature in the design of the primitive sickle is included — much to its advantage — in the latest models of the combine harvester . |
| 6 | And the column has come three times , each time in the late afternoon . |
| 7 | The dream had come true . |
| 8 | The girl had come this way , she was sure . |
| 9 | Several of the nails had come free . |
| 10 | The lad had come prepared . |
| 11 | The ideas have come thick and fast — a basic tax at 12p in the pound with the abolition of all income tax allowances , a flexible school-leaving age between 14 and 18 so 14-year-olds would have the option of leaving for a job in which training is guaranteed , and the reintroduction of child tax allowances . |
| 12 | Even when she passed the two-furlong pole , some five lengths off the leaders , she knew she had them ; but if the post had come ten yards earlier , she would never have got up . |
| 13 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
| 14 | The Eberhardts have come all the way from Rio ! ’ |
| 15 | the District has come second , out of 90 in the country , in the ‘ Most Improved ’ category of the British Gas Gold Flame awards . |
| 16 | B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ? |
| 17 | Making a name for himself as a boxer in the army had come easy to him , and had it been peace time he could probably have gone a long way in the sport . |
| 18 | As Theda followed , she began automatically to braid her long hair in a loose plait , searching among the tangle at her scalp for any pins that might have been left after the tresses had come loose from their moorings . |
| 19 | On trying the TL for the first time , more than one recently deafened person has said with astonishment , ‘ The world has come alive again . ’ |
| 20 | The conversation had come full circle . |
| 21 | But the benefits have come full circle , for the long master chronologies subsequently established for archaeological dating and calibration of radiocarbon results are now of just as much value to climatologists studying cycles in weather patterns associated with factors like sunspot activity and variations in the earth 's orbital parameters . |
| 22 | The soldiers had come five months earlier . |
| 23 | The doors had come open and there was a voice on a public address system shouting something . |
| 24 | The NSF had come first in 28 counties , the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania ( HDUR ) in six , the Democratic Convention in five and the Romanian National Unity Party in one . |
| 25 | Only a few of the Christian residents appeared to notice that the Syrians had come prepared for more than just a few days ' stay . |
| 26 | Ideas become a bit confused by the fact they feel a dream has come true . |
| 27 | ‘ When I saw you at the side of the road , it was as if a nightmare had come true . |