Example sentences of "[verb] come [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see you 've come to know me well , ’ responded Antony . |
| 2 | In May I 've come to stay . |
| 3 | The period around the time of the full Moon on the 10th will necessitate a certain amount of soul-searching on your part , but the time has come to regain your self- confidence and live how and where you wish . |
| 4 | Strangely , in writing off pop programmes as a lost cause , British TV seems to have ignored the example of MTV , which has come to define that genre across much of the world . |
| 5 | A profound historical amnesia has come to settle around the Teds whereby rock-and-roll outrages of the past , together with the magnified excitements that accompanied them , have been smuggled out of sight . |
| 6 | In this uninterrupted narrative of rowdyism and mischief running through the writings of these Christian youth workers in the 1920s and 1930s , it is not only the behaviour itself that is difficult to reconcile with the nostalgia which has come to settle around postwar perceptions of pre-war social realities . |
| 7 | Perhaps the time has come to test it . |
| 8 | The voyage of HMS Beagle has come to eclipse those of the series of scientific voyages to which it belonged , because of the eminence of its naturalist-passenger . |
| 9 | Now , having spent a hard eight years making clear what we are against , the time has come to describe what we are for . |
| 10 | While Munro baggers have been marking the centenary of Sir Hugh 's tables , a ghost has come to trouble the celebrations — the hovering spectre of Foinavon . |
| 11 | This ruling caste has come to rely on Italy 's huge public sector as a patronage machine for rewarding friends and supporters , a system that not only leads to corruption but also acts as a break on much needed free market reforms . |
| 12 | In spite of being an experimental novelist himself , Charles Newman has recently levelled a fierce attack on postmodernism which he argues ‘ has come to rely upon its own linguistic awareness of itself rather than plot or character development , to provide its own momentum ’ ( Newman 1985 : 98 ) . |
| 13 | I have a message of hope : the time has come to join hands . |
| 14 | It is particularly interesting that he notes that science has come to hold , for some , the status of a religion : students of the arts , for example , might regard science as ‘ mystical ’ . |
| 15 | It is that industry itself has come to hold a position of exclusive predominance among human interests , which no single interest , and least of all the provision of the material means of existence , is fit to occupy . |
| 16 | This modern view has come about not as a result of any further substantial constitutional developments — perhaps strangely , or perhaps significantly , the issue has never been seriously tested — rather , it has come to enjoy widespread , although not universal acquiescence largely because Dicey ( following Stephen and an equivocating Blackstone ) posited it as a central feature of the English constitution and because it has a deceptively simple logical appeal . |
| 17 | It is , however , suggested that where a new basis for constitutionality has come to enjoy universal acknowledgment or sufficiently widespread acquiescence , the judge 's obligation to uphold the law points in the direction of endorsing charge rather than blindly ignoring it . |
| 18 | A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years . |
| 19 | Now , with all Europe freed to unite ( or to fall apart ) , the time has come to devise a shorter , clearer replacement of all that has gone before — a constitution designed for a larger and more disparate union . |
| 20 | The author of Mining the Earth , John Young , argues that " mining has come to rival water erosion as a force for changing the landscape " . |
| 21 | ‘ Dry your eyes like a good girl and grasp your longest spoon , for the Devil has come to sup ! ’ |
| 22 | As our awareness of ‘ the environment ’ has gown , so has the meaning given to the term expanded until it has come to signify the whole of the non-cultural world . |
| 23 | And , yes , Edward could point out that we live in a time when the very meaning of the word myth has been debased , that it has come to signify only what is untrue , false , misleading ; and , yes , I could largely agree that it is nevertheless by myths we live , and what matters is how large the contrary truths a myth reconciles in its embrace . |
| 24 | This is not the same as being someone to whom other people often bring their problems ; that does not guarantee the instinctive knowledge of whether something is real or merely a " try-on " , or whether something that is being glosssed over is really something that should be dug out and gone into in depth , or whether the time has come to say and do nothing other than give encouragement to the sufferer to work something out for himself or herself with the assistance of other sufferers in the group . |
| 25 | ‘ I think we have done in the past , but the time has come to say enough is enough . ’ |
| 26 | Little mouse has come to say hello and welcome us to the animal show . |
| 27 | Little mouse has come to say hello you got ta read this side . |
| 28 | Little mouse has come to say hello |
| 29 | In a preface he drafted shortly before his death for a prospective collection of his verse , the man who has come to epitomize the soldier-poet wrote : ‘ Above all I am not concerned with Poetry . |
| 30 | ‘ And now I think the time has come to explore a little further . ’ |