Example sentences of "come [verb] that a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie and Fred Bradley had come to accept that a drop in their weekly takings was inevitable and there was never any pressure put on the men to leave once they had finished their morning tea or coffee . |
| 2 | Perhaps by the very end of his life , in 1880 , he had come to believe that a people , a nation , does not create itself according to its own best ideas , but is shaped by other forces , of which it has little knowledge . |
| 3 | He had come to believe that a period affected dreams , and not only Anna 's but his too . |
| 4 | For reasons which are much more pragmatic than ideological , I have come to think that a separation of Cultural Studies from English , though not easy , would be the least damaging way forward for both parties . |
| 5 | A telephone message may have come to say that a parent has died , a letter saying that a wife is seeking a divorce , but there is nowhere to hide and be alone with sorrow . |