Example sentences of "had come [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 2 | It felt as if my whole world had come crashing down on me . |
| 3 | ( b ) That later on the same night , after Zaidie had reached home , the defendant had driven there with another man and confronted him with a gun and had said that he had come to move out Paulette. ( c ) That after that incident , but still in June 1986 , when Zaidie was driving into a friend 's house , the defendant drove up and , saying that he had heard that Zaidie had hit Paulette , again threatened to kill him if he touched her . |
| 4 | The visiting pilots had come to ferry back a score of U.S. fighter aircraft flown up from the States as part of the American lend-lease programme . |
| 5 | It had come to harm enough , but he was not to know that . |
| 6 | The new Council of Ministers included some of Franco 's closest wartime collaborators , such as Generals Yagüe , Varela and Muñoz Grandes , and his brother-in-law , Ramón Serrano Suñer , on whom Franco had come to rely very heavily for his political knowledge and skill . |
| 7 | Only a few months ago , after this Lord Henry Percy had withdrawn to his other urgent command on the Scottish borders , Owen had run wild over most of North Wales , and made himself master of the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth ; and while the woollier heads in King Henry 's council had seethed and talked bloody war , Hotspur had come swooping back to hold the balance so sturdily that he had been allowed , on the king 's warrant , to approach the Welsh prince , and attempt to bring him back to his allegiance , on promise of honourable terms . |
| 8 | Sometimes I would hear conversations about the war when some of the older men in the dale came to chat and have a cup of tea in the kitchen with Uncle Tommy , who had come to take over Low Birk Hatt after Father died . |
| 9 | Women had come to take over men 's jobs as platform , goods , and parcel-porters , ticket-collectors , and engine cleaners . |
| 10 | Victoria had been playing gin rummy with her , and Shelley had come to take over . |
| 11 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 12 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 13 | At the end of it , just before Myeloski had given in to the rough flight conditions , Duncan had come to realize how sharp the policeman was , how through his individual approach he had put together clues that most others would have missed . |
| 14 | In the eighth century , as the Franks had imposed their domination over those they called " subject peoples " , Frankish kings had come to rule over many regna , not only far west as well as east of the Rhine , but beyond the Alps and beyond the Pyrenees . |
| 15 | She had come to pick up her mother 's possessions : the cracked Harrods dinner service , souvenirs of trips to Brighton and Bournemouth , the frayed and tired linen , the cooking pots , the scarlet tea cosy her mother had knitted , the family photograph albums she valued so much . |
| 16 | As her love for Stephen had grown , she had come to see clearly that she should have been more open with him at the beginning . |
| 17 | Welcomed in his loneliness into the congregation of a lively evangelical parish church in a northern suburb of London , he had come to see how he might be finally delivered from inconsequence . |
| 18 | I wondered why the two of them had come to live so far away from anyone else . |
| 19 | Similarly the wife of a Yorkshire brassworker could never forgive her parents for handing her over to be brought up by her retired grandparents , who had come to live nearby after their glassworks business had failed . |
| 20 | When the British evicted the Mughals from the Red Fort in 1857 , some of the court eunuchs had come to live nearby , a few minutes ' walk from the Turkman Gate . |
| 21 | But as the day had passed , and Dexter had started to picture her personality , he had come to realise how deceitful that image was . |
| 22 | Li Shai Tung stood , leaning heavily upon the silver-headed cane he had come to use so often these days ; the cane with the dragon 's head Han Ch'in had bought him on his fiftieth birthday . |
| 23 | His manner , over the years , had come to seem eerily medical . |
| 24 | By the nineteenth century the reign of law was an attractive idea to those inside the sciences and out ; but the laws of nature had come to seem not merely unchanging but also inevitable . |
| 25 | In view of all this , he might finally decide that the time had come to give up further arguing and accept what each of us has told him . |
| 26 | It is a devastating blow to the latest Arab League peace plan , which — with parliament 's adoption of political and constitutional reforms and the election of the new president — had come to embody perhaps the most serious attempt of its kind to end the 14 ½-year war . |
| 27 | It is a devastating blow to the latest Arab League peace plan , which — with parliament 's adoption of political and constitutional reforms and the election of the new president — had come to embody perhaps the most serious attempt of its kind to end the 14 ½-year war . |
| 28 | Suddenly the night had erupted into a confusion of fire , noise and light , as first the house had erupted in flames and then five heavy vehicles had come roaring up the twisting driveway , headlights blazing . |
| 29 | Tramway , Brook mused , had come to mean not just the bricks and mortar of a disused tram shed , but a place for human beings to create . |
| 30 | He reiterated , with immense care and deliberation , why it was that Sien had come to mean so much to him . |