Example sentences of "[pron] had come [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
2 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
3 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
4 | She had come the other way to the school , and was parked by the road , now , increasingly fretful that the two boys were nowhere to be seen . |
5 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
6 | A man at the back of the crowd said , ‘ I was sitting in the dome car lounge when Xanthe came through , and I can tell you that no one had come the other way . |
7 | ‘ 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 . |
8 | They had come a long way very fast . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
11 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
12 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
13 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
14 | He had come a long way . |
15 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
16 | Bazin , 60 , a former World Bank economist , had been the candidate of the right-wing Movement for the Establishment of Democracy in Haiti ( MIDH ) in the presidential elections of December 1990 [ see pp. 37911-12 ] , when he had come a distant second behind Aristide . |
17 | Hoomey had not seen Nails there since , but had an instinct that he had come the following night too . |