Example sentences of "have come [prep] [art] [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 To summarize , for a well flagged group of patients , with small solitary non-invasive transition cell carcinomas at d at diagnosis , and negative three month cystoscopy , we found eighty percent of our patients would certainly have come to no harm at all if their second cystoscopy had been one year from diagnosis .
7 I 'm sure she 'll have come to no harm . ’
8 It did n't seem possible that things could have come to a head so soon .
9 THE Soviet Union 's quarrelling politicians may have come to a truce , perhaps something more .
10 Although separated from her husband of 11 years , Diana 's loneliest chapter may have come to an end .
11 The Soviet Union is too dependent and too much part of the world economy to return to hibernation , but another period of infatuation may have come to an end .
12 The ‘ Far Eastern ’ memorandum was a superb and elegant paper even though , in its abstract idealizations of how colonialism should have come to an end , it sounded rather like a secular Sermon on the Mount .
13 Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed .
14 It was not affected by the surrender of part of the premises , however large , although it would be terminated by a surrender of the whole , as then the term would have come to an end .
15 In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall .
16 Technically , it may have come to an end , but recovery will be slow , sluggish and patchy .
17 If more would have gone back then the strike would have come to an end quicker cos , I thought more would have gone back then , but all the lads in they stayed out and nobody went in to work .
18 Norman Pereira has drawn attention to four points between 1856 and 1861 at which , but for the tsar , forward movement might have come to an end .
19 The answer is that the advice that should have been given in the circumstances that prevailed on that date was , that if the plaintiffs wished to ignore the contract then they were entitled to serve a completion notice which because the vendor was unable to obtain that would have meant that the vendor would be unable to comply with the completion notice and accordingly the contract would have come to an end .
20 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 .
21 Many of the pressures were already latent and would have come to the surface irrespective of the organizational structure .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 ‘ You should have come to the concert , ’ said Beuno , getting to his feet .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 I would n't have come to the office in the first place if you had n't asked me . ’
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