Example sentences of "had [adv] come [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , that was when it had all come to a head . |
| 2 | Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision . |
| 3 | Temple 's decision to increase its offer had not come as a surprise , he said , and the SeaCo board would meet next week to consider its response . |
| 4 | War or no war , the Government 's other business had not come to a halt . |
| 5 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes and no , ’ mumbled Hyacinth , to whom the news of the arrest and incarceration of the chairman of the YCs had just come as a surprise . |
| 7 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 8 | A spokesman for the DTI acknowledged that the department had been broadly aware of the situation at Leyland-DAF in September but insisted that news of the receivership had still come as a surprise . |
| 9 | Although not unexpected , his death had still come as a shock . |
| 10 | Looking up at the sky , at the myriad pinpricks of light , it seemed to him that he could feel the turning earth beneath his feet and that time had mysteriously come to a stop , fusing into one moment the past , the present and the future ; the ruined abbey , the obstinately enduring artefacts of the last war , the crumbling cliff defences , the windmill and the power station . |
| 11 | And I think it would now be most unlikely for a speculative proposal that had n't come through a planning system to succeed . |
| 12 | One person had evidently come to a decision . |
| 13 | By early 1690 such tensions had again come to a head . |