Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] come [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd better come clean , ’ I said . |
| 2 | Oh yes , and I suppose I 'd better come clean . |
| 3 | I had n't come all this way to see my sons turn into doctors . |
| 4 | I decided that I had not come all this way only to indulge in polite conversation . |
| 5 | ‘ Besides which , my dear Shiona , I 've waited long enough for you , and I 've just come all the way from Loch Lomond to propose to you . |
| 6 | And I have n't come all this way to listen to the same complaint , Irina . |
| 7 | ‘ You have n't come all this way just to tell me you despise me , have you ? ’ |
| 8 | In a way , we 've almost come full circle back to what I was trained to do , which is teaching . |
| 9 | We have almost come full circle . |
| 10 | They had not come unprepared . |
| 11 | After being among the first of the former Soviet republics to fight to free itself from the embrace of Moscow , it has now come full circle with the recognition that it must look East as well as West for its own benefit . |
| 12 | He had n't come prepared , he was cold , wet and hungry and he just wanted to go home , go to sleep and forget about everything , hoping it will all have disappeared in the morning . |
| 13 | He felt he had only come alive when he started surfing . |
| 14 | That was n't too pleasant , since he had apparently come direct from a City-wide garlic and limburger cheese sandwich-consumption championship . |
| 15 | He 's not come all this way to twiddle his thumbs . ’ |