Example sentences of "had come [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another burst of applause announced the arrival of the Prince of Orange , who had come with a handful of staff officers . |
| 2 | There was no sign of Haines , no one had come with a list of grievances , and Harold was able to give some of the assurances that I had urged upon him before the first dinner . |
| 3 | Then , while shopping in Fore Street one morning , he was approached by Timothy Gedge , who smiled at him as though nothing untoward had occurred between them and asked if he had come to a decision about donating the curtains . |
| 4 | The principal catalyst behind this act was the fact that in September the wavering Châtelherault had come to a decision as a result of Cecil 's help in arranging the escape of his son Arran from France , and finally agreed to join the Lords of the Congregation , thus ending the uneasy situation in which the Hamiltons had dithered between two opposing forces . |
| 5 | This issue had come to a head in July , with the tabling of a no-confidence motion in parliament , and the live broadcasting of the July 18-20 debate on national television . |
| 6 | The Spratly Islands were claimed by three ASEAN members — Brunei , Malaysia and the Philippines — and by China , Taiwan and Vietnam ; the dispute had come to a head in early 1992 after China and Vietnam awarded contracts separately to Western companies to drill for oil in the disputed archipelago [ see p. 38768 ] . |
| 7 | Things had come to a head in 1990 when a release extenxded a shut-down by several days at a cost of £250,000. a CAT , involving a wide cross-section of disciplines , was set up and reviewed incidents from 1987 onwards . |
| 8 | My dreams of training an owl had come to a standstill with Barny , and then another standstill when I could n't find a bird to buy . |
| 9 | In particular , it appears there was a specific leader at Colossae who had come to a position of authority . |
| 10 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 11 | When nothing happened , and he realised that he had come to a place without facilities , he retired for another consultation . |
| 12 | She ‘ knew ’ that ‘ she had come to a place at the end of the world ’ , a backwater where there was no action at all . |
| 13 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 14 | Regarding Massawa as an essential channel for aid to northern Ethiopia , Western government representatives at the UN on April 24 called for a ceasefire around the port , which had come under a series of government bombing attacks [ ibid . ] . |
| 15 | During these years before the war , each summer , the village would be invaded by Londoners , who had come for a holiday in the country . |
| 16 | They did n't often have a chance to leave the pub together , but this afternoon she was determined to have a family outing , so as soon as the dinner-things were washed up , they had come for a walk to the Island Gardens . |
| 17 | It was plain for all to see that his father 's ultimatum had come as a shock to Jonna . |
| 18 | He had come as a student of farming to this dairy , thinking he would be here only a short time . |
| 19 | He put on exquisite robes that had come as a gift from distant India , and took of vial of scented water , then mounted upon his noble steed . |
| 20 | If the invitation had come as a result of anxious discussion with Jenny about Cassie 's state of mind , and she rather thought that it had , Ben showed no sign of it . |
| 21 | The Department of Trade and Industry , which is responsible for firework safety , said yesterday that the decision to examine how casualty figures were collated had come as a result of a meeting with local authorities . |
| 22 | They had come into a gallery at the centre of which was a large glass case , round which the boys — apart from Khan and the Husayns — were crowded . |
| 23 | She sat down on the floor and took great heaving breaths as though she had come up a hill with a burden beyond her strength . |
| 24 | On arriving at Luxeuil amid the wild beauty of the Vosges mountains , the volunteers who had come from a year in the trenches with the Legion or from the spartan discomfort of the Ambulance Service , thought that life was almost too good to be true . |
| 25 | His instructions had come from a book by Seve Ballesteros called Natural Golf . |
| 26 | It had come from a chateau outside Paris , as had some of the other beauties . |
| 27 | But if the two of them had come by a windfall of some sort , she was n't going to ask questions about it . |
| 28 | The helmsboy then engaged full ahead , performed two pirouettes , and thundered back the way he had come in a cloud of blue exhaust smoke and coloured speech . |
| 29 | This time he had come within a stone of beating the Han . |
| 30 | Nutty realised afterwards that they had come within a hairs-breadth of total disaster . |