Example sentences of "[to-vb] come [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The experience is like entering the catacombs and I would n't have been the least surprised to have come across the odd skull or two in this formidable kind of Davey Jones ' locker . |
2 | Wdowczyk , after only four competitive matches , looks one of the best players to have come to the Premier Division in years . |
3 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
4 | ‘ We seem to have come to the wrong place . ’ |
5 | ‘ The weekly papers in the province seem to have come through the worst recession in living memory relatively unscathed . |
6 | We do not know in detail whence the monks were recruited ; but on the whole they seem mainly to have come from the upper classes , and perhaps from the families of substantial town-dwellers . |
7 | Adjoining Tommy Sparks was yet another pub , the street seemed to be full of them , this one was called The Catherine Wheel , an unusual name believed to have come from the eleventh century Knights of Saint Catherine of Mount Sinai . |
8 | During A.D. 57–8 , another Messiah appeared , said to have come from the Jewish community in Egypt . |
9 | " They do n't seem to have come from the British Army . " |
10 | I fear that they will eventually prove to have come from the Welsh Office , via the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
11 | A fall in urban rent values can also be seen in Oxford , although the evidence cited is less comprehensive than that for York , and the most drastic fall seems to have come in the second half of the fifteenth century after a period of relative stability . |