Example sentences of "they have come [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They think you 're a field of rape , they 've come to suck the goodness out of you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They 've come to steal the secrets of Sakkrat , ’ he said . |
| 3 | They had come to visit the graves of their own dead children . |
| 4 | However , the task of a new nanny was made all the more difficult because the children , bewildered and unhappy , felt that they had come to take the place of their mother . |
| 5 | They had come to see the show and my guilt for neglecting them afterwards was eased by Pam and Kath , also at the show this evening , who entertained them in my absence . |
| 6 | Rumours of this purpose account for the early popularity of the French ; they had come to support the ‘ Desired One ’ . |
| 7 | The fact that the cold war lasted so much longer than the economic idyll meant that Americans never adjusted to the fact that , economically , their country had long ceased to be able to deliver the annual increase in prosperity they had come to consider a birthright . |
| 8 | The incident happened at about 3.30pm on Friday , when the pair called at a house in Main Road , Danbury , saying they had come to check the meter . |
| 9 | Clearly these are important categories in that they have come to define the narrative expectations on which genres play , but it is important to recognize their limitations . |
| 10 | They have come to reinforce the message they left last time . |
| 11 | 2 As they have pondered on the growth of state intervention ( which they largely regard as undesirable ) so they have come to bemoan the absence of legal limitations on parliamentary sovereignty and competence which could hold that intervention in check . |
| 12 | Few would dispute that travel broadens the mind , but with basic school fees at the top independent boarding schools at around £10,000 a year and some of these trips costing as much as £2,000 , many hard-pressed parents admit they have come to dread the arrival of the letter informing them that the cricket 1st XI is to visit Zimbabwe . |