Example sentences of "had come [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | By early March , oil had come ashore at various points along a strip of Saudi coastline stretching some 130 miles south of the Kuwaiti border . |
2 | By the end of the year the UDC , which in the summer had fully backed Leeds and urged its local branches to support the establishment of Workers ' and Soldiers Councils , had come round to full support for the Labour Party . |
3 | These proposals had come forward without any consultation with any health minister , and indeed without any of us knowing that such a study was taking place . |
4 | So it was n't Liu Chang who had come here in that instance . |
5 | Mr Bryan Atherton , director of finance at Teesdale district council , said their budget had come well within last year 's allowance . |
6 | She and her companion had come up under full sail to my table . |
7 | He had come up with one idea , though , which had turned out to be a blinder at Christmastime . |
8 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
9 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |
10 | The pony rescue in August 1990 was the trickiest situation she had come across in five years as a vet . |
11 | I now noted that the latter had on each hand only three fingers and a thumb , and only four toes on each foot , in the manner of the monkeys we had come across in another existence . |
12 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
13 | She had come in with fresh water to bathe his back and hands , and stole extra time to finish the job , because he was conscious and willing to lie still . |
14 | By that date Moscow had provided a mere three and a half million roubles , and one million had come in from other gubernii . |
15 | The waiting-room was moderately full and there were several clients who had come in from neighbouring villages . |
16 | Yet someone had come in by that door , very softly , and was now motionless just within it , hesitating to advance into the choir and interrupt the second office of the day . |
17 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
18 | Right off the bat Dan agreed , detailing this as the one criticism that had come back from American TriAxis users . |
19 | Having a parasite is a very special , very intimate experience , as Bill Cater learned when he interviewed scientists and wildlife cameramen who had come back from exotic parts to discover that they 'd acquired various new things to share their lives with . |
20 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
21 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
22 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
23 | He had come home on 30 March and , referring to Sutherland , had told her : ‘ That bastard had the cheek to lose the head with me because it did not work . |
24 | If this advice had come only from junior officials , he might have been able to over-rule it . |
25 | One SAE applauded an AE who had come out with this line about futures : " This stuff is granny bonds , it 's so simple . " |
26 | In voting overwhelmingly on Nov. 14 for the debate , the Supreme Soviet had come out in open revolt against its legislation being either ignored or countermanded because of administrative chaos and the so-called " war of laws " with the republics . |