Example sentences of "had come [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 2 | Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |
| 7 | Lucy was already regretting her impulsive words , but , knowing she had to come up with an answer , she said in a matter-of-fact tone , ‘ Silas has already assured me that women will no longer play a part in his life . |
| 8 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 9 | As Major Pond discovered , seat-holders were let in through side doors while hoi polloi had to come in through the front in the hope of getting what they could . |
| 10 | I had to come back to a degree agreeing with them . |
| 11 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 12 | In common with some other contributors to Essays in Criticism he had come around to the view that the object of English should be to develop in students a " trained mind " rather than to produce " literary critics " or even " good readers " . |
| 13 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 14 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 15 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 16 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |
| 17 | Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 20 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 21 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 22 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |
| 23 | Lights had come on beyond the doorway . |
| 24 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 25 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 26 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
| 27 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 28 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 29 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 30 | But this time the executive had come up with a compromise of sterling dimness . |