Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 policeman and the girl had come on an ordinary routine visit . |
| 4 | I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird . |
| 5 | The occasional remark passing seemed to come from an infinite distance , and be answered after a prolonged interval . |
| 6 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The tip had come from a reliable source . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His success had come as a complete surprise to him . |
| 16 | ‘ The whole thing had come to a horrible head and a lot of hurt has been suffered by both of them throughout the summer . |
| 17 | The information had come from a reliable source and they had no reason to doubt it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This was where his grandfather had come as a young man , to worship and to be at peace with himself . |
| 20 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 21 | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source . |
| 22 | She broke down and wept bitterly when Wexford told her that that her husband 's supplementary income had come from a criminal source . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Nigerian adventure had come to an abrupt end with the arrival of a new military government and a ban on all imports . |
| 25 | The idea had come from a short documentary I saw years ago called Werner Herzog Eats His Show . |
| 26 | Her death had come as a great shock to him . |
| 27 | But many Americans thought the time had come for a political change to the safer conservatism of the Republican Party . |
| 28 | The time had come for a deaf person to occupy it and Hudson 's chairmanship therefore lasted only three years . |
| 29 | These architects fervently felt that the time had come for a new type of public building . |
| 30 | The most awkward joints were where the glazing bars met the curved members , any-way , after cutting about fifty joints in all , rebates for glass , slots for fielded panels , mouldings on corners and moulded glazing fillets the time had come for a complete dry assembly of the members . |