Example sentences of "had come [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The call had come at 6.12 precisely . |
| 2 | The call for the entire squadron to scramble for a major transferral had come at 0.700 hours . |
| 3 | His 3970 — mainly breezy — first class runs had come at 23.77 . |
| 4 | Johnson , as he did at Montrose , also employed much silence , and many who had come to one social occasion or another expecting to hear the grand disquisitioner , found him disappointingly reticent and withdrawn , even if making little antic noises to himself . |
| 5 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 6 | Reynolds had come across two others like it in all respects , but not in the same folder , and not with the incriminating paragraph ; that too was odd , in retrospect . |
| 7 | While I was searching for some Arab property in the area , I had come across three young Palestinians standing beside a shabby food stall on the waterfront . |
| 8 | And then when they had come about two months old , something like that , er we used to carry them out now , into the woodlands and with the rest of the hens . |
| 9 | For the first time in her life , Louisa had come into one of the dwellings of the Coketown Hands ; for the first time in her life , she was face to face with anything like individuality in connection with them . |
| 10 | Such were the main groups of Cossacks and anti-Tito Yugoslavs who had come into 5 Corps hands by 12 May . |
| 11 | But by then , the show-down had come from one of support for the clergyman to one of outright resistance to the regime . |
| 12 | Local residents again pointed out that so far all the dust that had blown had come from one three-acre section of the lake : ‘ The worry is that if it 's not attended to and if the entire 150 acres rise up and start blowing at the same time it could be a national disaster . |
| 13 | I had the impression — fleeting , I grant you — that the photo had come from one of the pockets . |
| 14 | That would have set them a puzzle , would n't it , if the fibres had come from one of them ? ’ |
| 15 | That had come in 1948 , when the war scare had eased , the Third Force 's resolve had stiffened , and American economic aid had begun to make itself felt . |
| 16 | If either the elections or the crisis had come in 1947 , then the contradiction probably would not have mattered . |
| 17 | Reports on May 5 said that US troops had come within 2 km of the town of Dahuk , south of the " safe havens " zone . |