Example sentences of "had come to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to come to the nightly struggle with the big glass , like the struggle with Proteus , who must be held no matter what form he takes , bull , bear , fox , fire , water . |
| 2 | Women are gentler , softer , cleaner , altogether nicer things and I , who always considered myself one of the boys , had come to the surprising conclusion that the companion I Wanted most was a woman . |
| 3 | In music for court entertainments , masques and dramatic intermedii , a group of Florentine musicians influenced by a learned Humanist , Girolamo Mei , who had come to the correct conclusion that ancient Greek music had been monodic , mixed madrigals with a new kind of monody in ‘ another way of singing than the usual ’ ( un altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ) . |
| 4 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 5 | It was the closest we had come to the outside world in nearly four months yet they were responsible for the oil which glossed the harbour and had killed the coral . |
| 6 | He knew he had come to the right person . |
| 7 | They had come to the right guy ! |
| 8 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 9 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
| 10 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
| 11 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
| 12 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
| 13 | I had seen the island where time begins , and had come to the sorry realization that the Pacific , the vastest of all oceans , is a far more complicated entity — if indeed it could ever be regarded as such — than it was possible to imagine . |
| 14 | Merrill paused for a moment , wondering if she had come to the wrong address . |
| 15 | When Geoff came into the staff room on the alcohol problems unit I assumed he had come to the wrong ward . |
| 16 | It was as if she had come to the wrong place , as if the magic that shrivelled Cinderella 's full satins to limp rag had breathed over this place , enchantment vanished in the wood , only the old dank trees still and always there . |
| 17 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 18 | I went to see Eric to tell him about this conversation and found that he had come to the same conclusion . |
| 19 | ‘ And it looks as if Ivor had come to the same conclusion . |
| 20 | It seems that Kerr J at first instance had come to the same conclusion as Lord Denning via a public policy route . |
| 21 | He had come to the banqueting hall in order to have a look at the river from the roof ; the river had risen and widened so much that the entire countryside seemed to be sliding past and one felt as if one were standing on the deck of a ship . |
| 22 | Both parents had come to the open evening and she had been able to talk to them . |