Example sentences of "had come [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was now a deadline to discussions about full employment — the government had to come forward with a policy before Beveridge . |
| 2 | And for those reasons and for the fact that I , more or less enjoyed the journey and had to come anyway as a chauffeur ! |
| 3 | Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that . |
| 4 | They had to come up with a plan of action on how to set up a Tyrolean Traverse to safety cross the 80 foot wide gorge — and come back again . |
| 5 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 6 | ‘ Somehow , we had to come up with a method of telling the body that it was daytime when it thought it was nightime and vice versa , ’ he says . |
| 7 | I had to come back to a degree agreeing with them . |
| 8 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 9 | While he had been kicking his heels yesterday he had spent an hour in a tiny bookshop in Curzon Street and had come away with a paperback edition of the Parsons Rosenberg and the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes 's anthology . |
| 10 | Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear . |
| 11 | Zeyer had come on as a defender to protect the score when Kaiserslautern levelled at 1–1 , but his role changed dramatically when Wednesday immediately hit back to make it 2–1 . |
| 12 | He had come here on a misunderstanding ; believing that Wavebreaker had been at Murder Cay when in fact we had not even been within sight of that mysterious island . |
| 13 | But this time the executive had come up with a compromise of sterling dimness . |
| 14 | Some time before , Malcolm had come up with a list of half a dozen names . |
| 15 | Ten years before that , ICI had come up with a world first with its Steam Naphtha reforming Process for the production of ammonia , methanol , hydrogen and town gas . |
| 16 | Business had come almost to a standstill and the newspaper was adversely affected to an increasing degree . |
| 17 | Soon after , all the rabbits had come together in a kind of hollow . |
| 18 | Community architecture had come about as a reaction to the tower blocks of the 1960s which were clearly not working : they had led to vandalism and mugging and terrifying isolation for the people who lived in them . |
| 19 | This crisis had come about as a result of the Emperor 's determination to carry through a series of far-reaching reforms which had actually been begun in a tentative fashion some years previously . |
| 20 | He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission . |
| 21 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |
| 22 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 23 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 24 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 25 | When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're really down , are n't you ? – said Felix 's wife , who had come in with a jar of instant coffee and a jug of water no more than fairly hot , which increased Stephen 's worry that many things were falling behind . |
| 27 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 28 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 29 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 30 | If the body had come there as a result of a crime that took place on the river , then the River Police with their specialised knowledge of tides and shipping were the obvious people to investigate it . |