Example sentences of "which had come [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had inherited four major outlets : in New York , Paris , London and Rome , all of which had come through the war intact , all of which were in prime locations , and all of which had suffered from neglect . |
| 2 | We were downstairs , laid out like sardines under the Morrison shelter , but when this happened my Dad was up like a shot and racing up the stairs with a bucket of sand , ready to throw it over what we assumed was an incendiary bomb which had come through the roof . |
| 3 | Later the same year he was appointed to the custody of various Welsh castles and honours which had come into the king 's hands on the death of George de Cantilupe [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | In 1281 he was commissioned by the king to search the chirograph chests for all deeds relating to Jewish debts , which had come into the king 's hands through the forfeiture of the creditors concerned , and then to levy those debts for the king . |
| 5 | Sixty-eight of the ninety family names recorded in the 1720s , that is three out of every four , were those of families which had come into the parish since the Elizabethan period . |
| 6 | Sir Hugo Mallinger , in life as in architecture , does not want to reproduce the old , but his house is specifically contrasted with Grandcourt 's Diplow , ‘ a comparatively landless place which had come into the family from a rich lawyer on the female side who wore the perruque of the Restoration ’ . |
| 7 | All the cards and calendars which had come to the house were arranged on the mantelpiece , and amongst them were little boxes of sweets and candied fruit and brightly hued crackers . |