Example sentences of "had come [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tories more famous than he had come nasty croppers in the past at conference time , returning tight to their hotels . |
| 2 | The soldiers had come five months earlier . |
| 3 | If any stranger had come that way it was likely he would think he was following the black road to hell . |
| 4 | Few had come that way since the Deosil Gate had been one of the first to collapse in a shower of white-hot embers . |
| 5 | In her hand she held the letter from England that had come that morning and Wilson knew what it contained : news of Miss Henrietta , of Mrs Surtees Cook , who was mortally ill with cancer of the womb . |
| 6 | Then he felt , vibrating along the ground , the steady tread of a man going away beyond the crest over which they had come that morning . |
| 7 | With the new science and technology had come new weapons of destruction : armoured tanks , steel submarines and warships , aerial warfare , bombs , machine guns and the huge infantry field-cannons . |
| 8 | The wheel had come full circle since the heady days of expansion after the Robbins Report in 1963 . |
| 9 | From those early Tudor days the English house had come full circle , but these Edwardian houses were warm , practical and comfortable ; they epitomized countrified romanticism . |
| 10 | It had come full circle . |
| 11 | Spookily enough , I had come full circle : I was back working for Alan Lewis , the man who 'd given me my first music press job — as his secretary at Sounds , back in ( gulp ) 1977 . |
| 12 | Cadfael could not choose but feel some sympathy for one whose dubious but daring enterprise had come full circle , and now threatened him with disgrace and punishment ; all the more as Cadfael himself had just been spared a possibly similar exposure . |
| 13 | She had come full circle . |
| 14 | The conversation had come full circle . |
| 15 | Tonight she had come full circle — from merely suspecting Luke 's motives to hearing him finally admit them . |
| 16 | By the end of the nineteen fifties life in Orkney had come full circle and like everyone else we had acquired a taste for the material things in life . |
| 17 | We spent Chairman , two and a half hours discussing this matter at that point and we had come full circle back to point 1 . |
| 18 | She said homeopathy had come full circle now and it was quite the in-thing to be treated by herbal remedies . |
| 19 | Even when she passed the two-furlong pole , some five lengths off the leaders , she knew she had them ; but if the post had come ten yards earlier , she would never have got up . |
| 20 | It had come half way up the bunk , and nearly as far as Willis 's blankets . |
| 21 | The girl had come this way , she was sure . |
| 22 | But I met a man on the road to the other village — I 've pursued them over the mountain from Keswick and you know the road divides two ways — and he swore they had come this way . ’ |
| 23 | I had come this way a hundred times , always varying my route so as to avoid making more of a track than a rabbit might do . |
| 24 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 25 | In place of the Fabian imperatives of post-war planning and the corporate outlook of the 1944 White Paper , there had come sectional interest and a declining confidence in the public sector . |
| 26 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 27 | Whoever had come last night had been determined to find something but must have left without doing so . |