Example sentences of "[noun] had come [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he had grown older , his anger had turned to cold bitterness , and creeping into his mind had come the idea of revenge , something subtle enough to humble his mother , make her realize that he lived , without killing her . |
| 2 | Sylvie had come the closest she had ever been to begging . |
| 3 | With the words had come the fleeting impression of dark , sinuous creatures who could slither out of the shadows and wind their cold , serpentine fingers about you , so that you were trapped , who could twine about your entire body , so that you were smothered and suffocating from the cold embrace … |
| 4 | With the adoption of Christianity by kings and their subjects had come the conception of the " Christian ruler " , for Christ had been the " King of the Jews " and the society of the Old Testament was a kingly and patriarchal one . |
| 5 | After the film noir of punk had come the escapist musical spectacular of ‘ the new pop ’ , demonstrated in a wild flamboyance which banished the austerity of punk rock to the shadows . |
| 6 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With peace had come the School 's first Sixth Form as that term is understood today , with nine members . |
| 9 | And he admitted this was n't the first time his feet had come a cropper . |
| 10 | The Sputnik demonstration of Soviet technological capabilities had made Foster Dulles ’ philosophy of massive nuclear retaliation untenable , and in its place had come the theory of imposing a pause with conventional forces to allow time for last-minute negotiations to reduce the chances of mutual nuclear suicide . |
| 11 | From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Man had come a long , long way from his hominoid ancestry . |
| 16 | With the Scottish interests had come a stake in Border TV , which Lonrho kept . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 19 | But with understanding had come a growing determination that she would never fall into the same trap — would never allow herself to be ruled by a foolish , hoping heart . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Just after Manning had come the agnostic Tyndall , talking about the identity of radiant heat and light ; and just before Stanley , the militant anti-christian W. K. Clifford had held forth on the education of the people , and especially on the importance of technical drawing . |
| 22 | So both groups had come a similar distance in the sense of having the indications that there was something interesting to pursue further . |
| 23 | After the initial decision to continue my trip had come the fight to quell bitterness . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |
| 26 | Since the railways had come the post travelled more quickly , and it was possible that her grandfather already knew everything . |
| 27 | From behind the tee had come a cheer which changed into a gasp . |
| 28 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |