Example sentences of "had [adv] come to [art] [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 | The uncle had apparently come to the school gates at the end of school and when the girl was a little way on her way home had caught up with her and taken her to his house . |
| 4 | I had already come to the conclusion that regression therapy would probably be the best way to help Maxine , and I put the idea to her . |
| 5 | Cards and flowers had already come to the stage door , and Bernie was making mocking remarks at every opportunity . |
| 6 | War or no war , the Government 's other business had not come to a halt . |
| 7 | ‘ Bertha saw the wolf and she wished she had not come to the gardens . |
| 8 | The statement made by the timber firm to the dock company had not come to the attention of the innocent purchaser ; it therefore could not have misled him . |
| 9 | A number of Laura 's relations lived there , but he had not come to the Relais to discuss them . |
| 10 | Many gins later , his guests had just come to the end of the petits fours when Wullie Robertson turned up , forcing his way into La Noblesse , looking like the wrath of God , or the son of some Pictish chieftain , and demanding , ‘ Hyacinth ! |
| 11 | Aikin notes that the cotton industry had just come to the town . |
| 12 | Vice-Admiral Hawkins , together with his two scientist friends , had just come to the bridge in response to Talbot 's invitation that they join him . |
| 13 | It looked as if the serenity of the evening had just come to an end ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That er this group wanted to work with other groups which had n't come to an understanding . |
| 16 | ‘ If we had n't come to an agreement , you 'd be paying for my time as well . ’ |
| 17 | They seemed to know when the tragedy of the previous night had occurred , and had maybe come to the theatre in such numbers in the vague hope that they might get a repeat showing . |
| 18 | One person had evidently come to a decision . |
| 19 | By early 1690 such tensions had again come to a head . |
| 20 | There was evident a very strong determination on the part of Prof. Barker to remove all obstacles likely to prevent agreement being reached and , in the course of a subsequent conversation with Elvin , he said that he had recently come to the conclusion that it was of primary importance that the WEA should have the full assistance of the Extra-Mural Board in all its work throughout the whole of this District . |
| 21 | The era of the 1963 Robbins Report had truly come to an end . |