Example sentences of "had come [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chance mention in a letter written in the 820s shows that one card in a Carolingian king 's hand was the existence of a " solemn custom " whereby any recipient of a benefice had to come to the palace in person and ritually " commend " himself to the king . |
| 2 | She had come to the Centre in the depths of despair , weeping , gnashing her teeth and venting her hatred upon the doctors who had told her , at the eleventh hour that she had cancer and nothing could be done . |
| 3 | All such links between the English church and the Protestant churches in Europe had quickly disappeared , of course , once Mary had come to the throne in 1553 and had set about reuniting England to Rome . |
| 4 | The Minister said earlier today that he hoped it would be accepted that the Government had come to the House in good faith . |
| 5 | It had come to the stage in 2020 when anyone who regarded Time as other than something that could be measured precisely by chronometer was shunned as an eccentric . |
| 6 | If the DEA had used it to provide a cover identity for somebody in Egypt , it could hardly admit that in open court or explain how it had come by the certificate in the first place . |