Example sentences of "had come [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 2 | And the next fortnight I would be on the afternoon shift , which meant getting the same distance , to half past two to work till They were eight hour shifts you see and the night shift likewise had to come a very er a tremendous number from working at the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham ev even in those days , travel from various places . |
| 3 | There had to come a point where I took control of my future . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
| 5 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
| 6 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 7 | Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house . |
| 8 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 9 | Foinavon had come a remote fourth in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park the previous December but few disputed that his starting price in the Grand National was a true reflection of his chance . |
| 10 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 11 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 12 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 13 | Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old . |
| 14 | For them Friday the 13th had come a day early . |
| 15 | So both groups had come a similar distance in the sense of having the indications that there was something interesting to pursue further . |
| 16 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 17 | And he admitted this was n't the first time his feet had come a cropper . |
| 18 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 19 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 20 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 21 | With the Scottish interests had come a stake in Border TV , which Lonrho kept . |
| 22 | Man had come a long , long way from his hominoid ancestry . |
| 23 | He had come a long way . |
| 24 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |
| 25 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 26 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 27 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 28 | We made ball and roller bearings for the car trade , the car trade had come a slump and the car trade to this day does n't want one bearing or one detail for a car until it 's ready to put it on a car . |
| 29 | WHEN THE SIGNALS to cease battle had been exchanged , and there had come a respite in the noise , and the smoke was curling lazily into the blue where clouds flocked and billowed , the islanders fell back and took stock of their situation . |
| 30 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |