Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have come to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet during their tenure of office both have had to deal with a Russia now run by an apparently liberally minded head of government who has come to the conference table willing to reduce arms at a rate that the West sometimes finds embarrassing . |
| 2 | The object of this sort of servants ' hall talk is invariably some butler who has come to the fore quite suddenly through having been appointed by a prominent house , and who has perhaps managed to pull off two or three large occasions with some success . |
| 3 | Usually such classes only run once a year , which may leave someone who has come to the point of decision too late for that year 's class in limbo for several months . |
| 4 | The term associate publisher was also , said RH chief executive Gail Rebuck , and appropriate one ‘ for someone who has come to the top of the tree ’ . |
| 5 | Few , however , will have been as well-prepared for this as Don Cruickshank , the ; new director-general of the telecommunications regulator , Oftel , who has come to the post after three years as the first-ever chief executive of the National Health Service in Scotland where public controversy , as he put it , ‘ is part of the job ’ . |
| 6 | In fact , John Serbrock , who has come to the Amstel from the Conrad at Chelsea Harbour , reckons that they would be 10–15 per cent higher if the hotel was in London . |
| 7 | In particular , it appears there was a specific leader at Colossae who had come to a position of authority . |
| 8 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |
| 9 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 10 | In those matches Fred had teamed up again with brother Albert , who had come to the Palace from Northampton in 1933 . |
| 11 | Among the rich and famous who had come to the salon to have their hair cut , tinted and set , Paula recognised Dusty Springfield , the pop singer , her eyes big and sooty , her lips pearly pink , and was unable to suppress the thrill of excitement which ran through her . |
| 12 | And the person who was going to lead them to this golden opportunity was the new driving force who had come to the fore and already earned himself the nickname of ‘ the Eddie Shah of News on Sunday ’ — Chris Walsh . |
| 13 | In May 1788 , immediately after Pitt had persuaded the Commons to agree the slave trade would be debated in the next session , the mainly Quaker members of the London committee , accompanied by Thomas Walker and Thomas Cooper from Manchester who had come to the capital to inspire urgency , formed a deputation to prepare MPs for the forthcoming discussion . |
| 14 | Solutions in terms of this everyday discourse could have and may have been thought of by the client , who had come to the solicitor for a legal rather than an everyday solution . |
| 15 | I recognized him as the man with only three fingers on his left hand — the one who had come to the Admiral Benbow ! |
| 16 | After Sullivan left , he talk to Iranians who had come to the palace to see him , He said to the in wonderment , " Do you know what Sullivan has just said to me ? |
| 17 | In music for court entertainments , masques and dramatic intermedii , a group of Florentine musicians influenced by a learned Humanist , Girolamo Mei , who had come to the correct conclusion that ancient Greek music had been monodic , mixed madrigals with a new kind of monody in ‘ another way of singing than the usual ’ ( un altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ) . |
| 18 | A tide of crimson flowed into Isabel 's face when she hurriedly disentangled herself from fitzAlan and saw that Ralf had been joined by Sybil and Master Thomas , who had come to the inn door to wave them off . |
| 19 | A little more of the same , ’ he said to the waitress who had come to the table with Harvey 's coffee and was watching Signor fragolli with close interest . |
| 20 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 21 | He wanted very much to walk out onto a pier — those constructions built so that people who have come to the sea to get away from their place of work can , for a moment , almost leave their working life behind , can go to the very edge of their week 's holiday and then dream of going further . |
| 22 | ‘ Apart from a fractured leg I 've been very lucky with injuries and have got on well with the managers who have come to the club . |
| 23 | And then you get lots of other unwelcome knocks on the door — one man who says he 's looking for number 11 , another who says he 's a taxi-driver who 's come to the wrong house — and he probably is but his timing is enough to make you rush about panicking and locking the place up like Fort Knox . |