Example sentences of "[noun prp] have come [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The life-is-a-party world of Xuxa has come to portray the official version of Brazilian reality , with its glossy blondes and creamy morenas — and very few blacks . |
| 2 | David had come to associate the noise of the Hoover with post-coital sadness . |
| 3 | Sometimes she would be invited to her sister 's house , but not too often now , because it must be admitted that with the passing of the years Aunt Nessy had come to look a little eccentric . |
| 4 | Given the party 's increasingly isolated situation , given its general lack of prestigious cultural figures , it is not surprising that by 1928 Barbusse had come to enjoy a particularly favoured position within the ranks of the PCF itself . |
| 5 | Since he walked out of the cabinet in 1986 , Michael Heseltine has come to occupy a role in British politics that has few precedents . |
| 6 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 7 | Greenpeace has come to epitomise the struggle for a safer future , not just for humankind , but for the planet as a whole . |
| 8 | That Castro had come to regard the Centre-Left as an obstacle to the course he wanted the revolution to pursue was made clear on 19 October , when he warned , ‘ It would be better if those who prefer to remain on the borderline in these hours … become enemies ; that is , they would do more damage as companions than enemies ’ ( Hoy ( newspaper of the PSP ) , 21 October 1959 , p. 3 , in González : 1968 , p. 51 ) . |
| 9 | He and his group Dinosaur Jr have come to epitomise the check flannel shirts and guitar-amps-to-11 movement , even although they are far superior to their increasingly unimaginative clones . |
| 10 | Coppell said : ‘ If an impartial observer from the planet Mars had come to watch the game , they would have thought we deserved to win . |
| 11 | 1964 ) he maintained that Barth and Bultmann had come to represent the extremes of objectivism and subjectivism , and offered his own attempt to chart a middle way in which both the given truth of God and the need for it to be apprehended in the personal encounter of faith would be given their proper place . |
| 12 | He talked of his father 's psychic abilities and also of the way in which Alfred Watkins had come to see the ley mark points in terms of the old elements : fire , earth , air and water . |
| 13 | In 1924 , though , Eliot has come to perceive The Golden Bough as a ‘ stupendous compendium of human superstition and folly ’ , seeing in it increasingly less ‘ interpretation ’ , so that it has become ‘ a statement of fact ’ which is not involved in the maintenance or fall of any theory of Frazer 's . |
| 14 | Haunted by the voices of the past , Eliot had come to inhabit the landscape of his earlier reading . |