Example sentences of "have come [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From early in its history , therefore , AEA has been active in technology transfer and has come increasingly to operate as a service organisation to the nuclear industry , working through customer-contractor arrangements covered by properly drawn up contracts . |
| 2 | Just as it collapses the hierarchy of narrative levels , so the novel un-builds the hierarchy of metatextual discourses that has come lately to encrust itself around ‘ metafictional ’ novels . |
| 3 | Popular , and indeed even professional psychology , has come freely to deploy the concept of aggression in accounts of interactions between human beings . |
| 4 | But it is surely not the will of God that a gentleman who has come here to practise medicine … |
| 5 | ‘ A witness has come forward to say he heard the police fire before Place . |
| 6 | Despite widespread appeals not one person has come forward to say they were in the town centre when Michael was beaten up on Friday evening . |
| 7 | Dastra in our last issue , has come forward to claim the £25 prize and a cheque is on its way to her . |
| 8 | This tiny Shetland pony was found two weeks ago wandering in a field of pitchum near Stroud but so far no one has come forward to claim him . |
| 9 | It 's a shame really that no-one has come forward to apply for it , because it 's such a lovely , wonderful bungalow . |
| 10 | Bingo No volunteer has come forward to assist with the bingo sessions so a new rota has been drawn up . |
| 11 | ANOTHER victim of evil Dr Tom Courtney has come forward to tell of the horrific ordeal he put her through . |
| 12 | So far , not a single witness has come forward to throw any light on Joanna 's confused account of her abduction on Tuesday night from outside the Harpenden Leisure Centre where she worked . |
| 13 | I ask Tor , who has come across to see how I am coping , if this is normal , a guarded , off-the-cuff way of informing him that I am shit-scared and would like the weather to change . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll take a quick break for some tea and then we should be ready to run it up in another hour , ’ he briefs Captain Tuck-Brown , who has come across to check on progress before going home for the day . |
| 15 | The symbol of the Virgin Mary has come almost to epitomize the problems for women who attempt to continue within the Christian tradition . |
| 16 | She 'd had to come here to clear up Elise 's affairs , taking a week 's holiday from her London job . |
| 17 | Some 150 northern businessmen were being questioned by the police , having come forward to volunteer information about bribes they had paid . |
| 18 | By the end of 1915 , the British Army in France , thus reinforced , had risen to 38 divisions , more than 3 million men having come forward to serve in ‘ Kitchener 's Army ’ . |
| 19 | It was wrong to leave her family in the first place , wrong , having come here to go on leading the life she did . ’ |
| 20 | The significance of these changes is that the partners , having come together to make children , are now having to move apart again and manage differences which parenthood has made unavoidable . |
| 21 | If he wants to explain things to me he 'll have to come there to find me . |
| 22 | Someone must have come indoors to turn that light on . |
| 23 | The fish must have come forward to give the line some slack . |
| 24 | Dr William Fore , former WACC President and now Visiting Lecturer in Communication at the School , said in a recent letter to delegates : ‘ The meeting promises to be a landmark , since it is the first time that teachers of communication in seminaries and schools of theology will have come together to consider their distinctive task in theological education . ’ |
| 25 | You may have come there to say something really basic like ‘ Sin is Bad ! ’ or ‘ God is Good ! ’ but it is crucial to start by talking about your Auntie Renee 's operation or why your dog was sick in the back of the car on the M4 . |
| 26 | Whereas in London and in England generally , it had been a matter of principle from the start that Monotypes should be worked by male union labour , " in Edinburgh , the men do not seem to have come forward to learn the Monotype , even in response to invitations from the employers . |
| 27 | ‘ I had to come especially to see you this morning , Leith , ’ he said earnestly as he fell into step with her . |
| 28 | On arrival together , it is appropriate to encourage one another saying , as it were , ‘ Come on friends , let's do what we 've come here to do . ’ |
| 29 | He says er er and he says me pal did n't come , he said , Well , I thought well I 've come here to do it , and I 'm going . |
| 30 | Getting no response , she went on a shade breathlessly , ‘ I 've come here to do a catalogue raisonné , and help make the arrangements for mounting an exhibition of his sculpture . ’ |