Example sentences of "have come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Bragad 's men hold it , and all in it ; his ‘ Wares must have come over the ramparts in the night . ’
2 ‘ I wondered if she might have come into the office on the Saturday ? ’
3 Dry and tinned stores were issued readily , but meat , vegetables and fruit were not so easy to procure , and often I went out into the surrounding villages to buy up food which normally would have come into the Maymyo bazaar .
4 During the late Preclassic/early Classic period the region may have come under the influence of the Chupcuaro , who occupied agricultural and craft centres with small pyramids .
5 This would have come under the jurisdiction of the provincial procurator one of whose assistants restored its headquarters building , and not that of the regionarius .
6 He calculated that by the age of 65 the deceased would have put £18,000 into his firm in working capital ; this would have been repayable and would ultimately have come to the widow and her daughter .
7 Many of the pressures were already latent and would have come to the surface irrespective of the organizational structure .
8 His mother was a Parr , which may have given him an independent entree into Gloucester 's service , but he could equally well have come to the duke 's attention through the Percy connection .
9 His mother was a Parr , which may have given him an independent entree into Gloucester 's service , but he could equally well have come to the duke 's attention through the Percy connection .
10 It 's possible that the man who stands on the winner 's podium on the Champs Elysées on the afternoon of Sunday 26 July will have come to the fore in the last two days .
11 Our spies tell us Hewlett-Packard and DEC would have come to the Unix International meeting if they were n't so afraid to being found out .
12 Although President Nixon may have come to the White House committed to ending the war in Vietnam , it just so happened that his way of ending it was to escalate it .
13 ‘ You should have come to the concert , ’ said Beuno , getting to his feet .
14 It is by now quite well known ( certainly it will have come to the attention of those who attended the Statute Law Society 's Annual Conference at Cambridge in 1988 ) that the European Court 's method of interpreting Community legal texts is primarily teleological , that is to say the interpretation of a provision on the basis of its object and purpose .
15 If neither of these provisions applies , the affidavit must be sworn by a person having direct personal knowledge of the means adopted for service , and must specify the steps which have been taken to serve the demand , the means whereby ( those steps having been ineffective ) it was sought to bring the demand to the debtor 's attention , and the date by which , to the best of the knowledge of the person making the affidavit , the demand would have come to the debtor 's attention .
16 I would n't have come to the office in the first place if you had n't asked me . ’
17 I think they must have come to the flat .
18 Our spies tell us HP and DEC would have come to the UI meeting if they were n't so afraid to being found out .
19 ‘ The report would not have come to the Bank as such a surprise either if PW … had more plainly and directly , more consistently , more comprehensively and , if they felt their messages were not being received , more vigorously , brought them to the notice of the Bank . ’
20 If he was n't there , he rather feared Paul Lexington might have come to the end of his understudies .
21 ‘ There 's sorry I am about your mam , would have come to the funeral if I had n't had to work , mind . ’
22 In my judgment , he would inevitably have come to the conclusion , as a matter of necessary inference , that the plaintiffs were paying and the defendants accepting the money subject to repayment if the action resulted in the plaintiffs ' favour .
23 From the flamboyant tone in which the speculators discussed the prospects for Denwood , a stranger within its precincts might have come to the conclusion that he was standing upon ground which was destined to become the Winnipeg of the Middle West .
24 ‘ I thought perhaps Stephen 's brother might have come to the party with you ? ’
25 Well it would n't made any difference cos we would have come on the Sunday anyway .
26 It would have been better if we could have come at the weekend & seen something of the family , but Richard had long-standing plans involving friends of his who could only come ( from Macclesfield ) on Saturday .
27 idea of the theory , which is something that probably should have come at the beginning but it does n't matter too much .
28 Some readers will have come across the idea of expressing a simple relationship between an explanatory variable X and a response variable Y as Y = a + bX .
29 ‘ Whoever brought the message must have come across the wall , ’ Corbett murmured to himself .
30 Anyone who has read a selection of cases concerned with jurisdiction will have come across the distinction drawn between want of jurisdiction and excess of jurisdiction .
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