Example sentences of "they had come [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the proposals leaked they would be dynamite inside the health service , and yet they had come round with only the routine ‘ confidential ’ security classification . |
| 2 | Ever since Mum had married Ken Lomax and they had come up here , he had felt useless . |
| 3 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
| 4 | The production team , which again included writers Robert Lord and Abem Finkel , had made a film which depoliticized the Legion by making its motive force sheer racketeering rather than political control and by making the violence and executions personal rather than political but nevertheless they had come up with a realistic depiction of how a weak man could be drawn into a recognizably Fascist organization . |
| 5 | He stopped almost opposite the hole by which they had come up , and Hazel joined him . |
| 6 | Not till they had come up onto the green did he realise that the figure in waterproofs pulling the doctor 's trolley was Chris . |
| 7 | His and my granny 's stories and memories centred round the struggles they had come through , especially the terrible days following the collapse of the General Strike in 1926 when the miners stayed out for many months . |
| 8 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 9 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 10 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 11 | Dexter was glad they had come back to see Lancaster at the end of the day . |
| 12 | They had come back ! |
| 13 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 14 | Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace . |
| 15 | Forest , held to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground , were 3-1 ahead with 17 minutes of normal time left , and deservedly so ; they had come out for the second half bristling with determination to make quality tell . |
| 16 | The sun had shone so that , after their lemon meringue pie , they had come out here , where the long-haired cat danced about the lawn , and Gaily had noticed the back-gate swinging off its hinges . |
| 17 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 18 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 19 | They had come out of the Hearing without their children , and without knowing how long it might be before they were able to be together again . |
| 20 | You knew who was Black if they were a colleague , and who was gay if they had come out at work . |
| 21 | There was one early proposal about archaeology which became a series called The Blood of the British , where they had come in with the idea of the series . |
| 22 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 23 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 24 | But they were going for a walk , they had come in to make him go with them , and they wanted me to go too . |
| 25 | He had seemed pale and jittery ever since they had come in . |
| 26 | The youngsters , Peter and Nona , had been hurt by blast and Peter had been burnt in the back , but they had come off lightly . |
| 27 | They had come off lightly . |
| 28 | They had seen that the volcano was in eruption even before dropping anchor ; many of them had come up on deck to see the spectacle . |
| 29 | He too , was proud and as he looked round the crowded pews of St Christopher 's in Englefield , New Jersey , he thought of what a good turn-out it was considering that so many of them had come up from New York . |
| 30 | You , th cos the railway men used to make the path , cos the terrific amount of railway men used to work down at and most of our round consisted of railway people and most of them had come up from Wales and places like that . |