Example sentences of "had come [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to come home in the ambulance , and had a bed downstairs for the daytime , but managed to go upstairs to bed at night . |
| 2 | The first prisoners had come here in the days when the state of war between England and Germany was still largely theoretical . |
| 3 | He had come here in the autumn of 1920 . |
| 4 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 5 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 6 | The previous year , BASF , Bayer , Hoechst , Agfa and a number of smaller German companies had come together in the Interes-sengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie ( IG Farben ) . |
| 7 | Lucy was involved in a study of cetaceans and had come along in the hope of seeing at least some porpoises . |
| 8 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 9 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 10 | He had come now in the mid-passage of his life to a forest dark and he had lost the straight path . |
| 11 | And still that mystery in the front room continued , reflected Shirley on New Year 's Eve 1979 , as she examined the handsome features of the dangerous Queen of Spades , and wondered if the King had come out in the deal . |