Example sentences of "had come [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened the lockers to pull out the kit but found that the top had come off a water container and half a gallon had spilt , soaking the tea bags and bursting the envelope which carried my documents . |
| 2 | She 'd have to take off her thick blue jersey soon , and she could n't remember how many buttons had come off the shirt underneath , and it was sleeveless , and she had n't shaved her armpits since Philippa asked her to supper last week . |
| 3 | They had come off the M3 and were cruising on the dual carriageway A303 . |
| 4 | He felt that , on the whole , we should aim for people who had come off the BBC training course , who were n't yet ready to tackle major dramas , but who needed to cut their teeth on something demanding . |
| 5 | Brandy was poured immediately , and ‘ On a side-board was placed for us , who had come off the sea , a substantial dinner , and a variety of wines . ’ |
| 6 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 7 | When he had come off the phone the night before and Erica had asked who it had been , he had replied , with a certain confidence and an audible distaste , ‘ Someone talking nonsense ’ . |
| 8 | THE post-match critic who wondered if Hibs had come off the team bus moving backwards might have been guilty of allowing his cynicism to get the better of him , but there can be no-one at Easter Road this morning able to derive any satisfaction from the side 's performance at Ibrox . |
| 9 | His aerial had come off the chimney |
| 10 | It was to this area that the Hasteds had come at the very beginning of the 19th century ; previously their home had been in the City , in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Olave , Hart Street , but like many of their contemporaries they made the pilgrimage east . |
| 11 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 12 | Suddenly , she knew that her aunt 's news had come at the perfect time . |
| 13 | Chairman Bob Bennett revealed that the new purge had come at the end of a three-hour committee meeting . |
| 14 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 15 | He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment . |
| 16 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 17 | She had come on no other Scarabae beyond Cheta , who had brought her breakfast . |
| 18 | This was a clear breach of the understanding on which he had come on a joint mission to the pope . |
| 19 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 20 | They had come on a sight-seeing visit and , of course , they had their cameras with them . |
| 21 | At first , Emma 's notes , on brightly coloured paper , had come on every ninth or tenth day . |
| 22 | Etty with her friend Dolly Murchie , had come on the scene . |
| 23 | Perhaps , he said , the hijackers had come on the train . |
| 24 | When he had come on the scene about fifteen years earlier he had been a spectacular hitter of a golf ball and a brilliant putter : a fearsome blend of talents in a golfer — if they combine regularly . |
| 25 | Two of the hotel functionaries had come on the scene . |
| 26 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |
| 27 | She was in no hurry , and had made no plans to meet Rosie , since Francisco had come on the scene . |
| 28 | The policeman and the girl had come on an ordinary routine visit . |
| 29 | She had come on an errand and was greeted by a mad woman , an amazon . |
| 30 | Political will ( backed by force — as it had to be in the view of the highly ambivalent public reaction to the programme hitherto ) had come with a vengeance ( Gwatkin 1979 : 29 ) . |