Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] come [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop . |
| 2 | The marriage had come as a complete shock even to Eliot 's closest friends , such as Emily Hale and Mary Trevelyan . |
| 3 | The glass firm said all the suspect bottles had come from a new lightweight bottle-making process which had now been halted . |
| 4 | But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 5 | The policeman and the girl had come on an ordinary routine visit . |
| 6 | I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird . |
| 7 | The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell . |
| 8 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 9 | The occasional remark passing seemed to come from an infinite distance , and be answered after a prolonged interval . |
| 10 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 11 | And what more could Miss Waters do but affirm that if one could not perform one 's Christian duty without being treated as a busybody then the parish had come to a sorry pass ? |
| 12 | For a communist militant who had devoted his life to the struggle against fascist barbarism and oppression , the revelation that the Soviet communist state had come to a private agreement with Hitler 's Nazi Germany was a mortal body blow . |
| 13 | Fifteen yards down the street , the man had come to an uncertain halt , his eyes searching both sides of the street for a glimpse of his prey . |
| 14 | Darwin at the end of one of his books wrote that according to the unchanging world of his critics , there had been the fall of man into sinfulness and mankind were forever doomed to hopelessness , whereas in his ( Darwin 's ) theory of evolution , man had come from an inferior form , and because of this continuous progress , he commands a limitless potential . |
| 15 | I know this caused an immense amount of debate at Personnel sub-committee , and I thought that Personnel sub-committee had come to a reasonable solution . |
| 16 | The tip had come from a reliable source . |
| 17 | My father was a missionary had come from a dusty little town in South Africa , I 've got many wonderful experiences in my life , I 've had experience of heart transplant . |
| 18 | The final showdown between the Viet-Minh and the cream of the French colonial Army had come in a deserted valley in the north of Vietnam , around a small village called Dien Bien Phu . |
| 19 | His success had come as a complete surprise to him . |
| 20 | ‘ The whole thing had come to a horrible head and a lot of hurt has been suffered by both of them throughout the summer . |
| 21 | The information had come from a reliable source and they had no reason to doubt it . |
| 22 | The news she had just received from Dorothy 's doctor had come as a dreadful shock , and for the moment she could not trust herself to speak . |
| 23 | This was where his grandfather had come as a young man , to worship and to be at peace with himself . |
| 24 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 25 | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source . |
| 26 | She broke down and wept bitterly when Wexford told her that that her husband 's supplementary income had come from a criminal source . |
| 27 | The only serious threat appeared to come from a small group of exiles in Paris , chief amongst whom was Henry Beaumont , who had gathered together exiles from Lancaster s movement and some of the nobles who had lost lands in Scotland . |
| 28 | Her voice trailed away as she saw that Laura had come to an abrupt halt beside her . |
| 29 | The Nigerian adventure had come to an abrupt end with the arrival of a new military government and a ban on all imports . |
| 30 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |