Example sentences of "[pron] had come [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 2 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |
| 3 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 4 | Someone had come into a study meeting and said ‘ Would anyone volunteer to do the washing ? ’ |
| 5 | Regarding Massawa as an essential channel for aid to northern Ethiopia , Western government representatives at the UN on April 24 called for a ceasefire around the port , which had come under a series of government bombing attacks [ ibid . ] . |
| 6 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 7 | In the final , Cowan met up with Mark Schofield ( Lancs ) , the number two seed who himself had come through a tough semi-final meeting with fellow Bisham boy , Philip Fowler . |
| 8 | She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most . |
| 9 | She ‘ knew ’ that ‘ she had come to a place at the end of the world ’ , a backwater where there was no action at all . |
| 10 | But today she had come to a decision , she would tell Craig Grenfell to leave her house , his presence was beginning to disturb her , disrupt her life . |
| 11 | If she had come to a pitiful and desperate end , this woman for one would not be sorry . |
| 12 | She sat down on the floor and took great heaving breaths as though she had come up a hill with a burden beyond her strength . |
| 13 | Another burst of applause announced the arrival of the Prince of Orange , who had come with a handful of staff officers . |
| 14 | During these years before the war , each summer , the village would be invaded by Londoners , who had come for a holiday in the country . |
| 15 | In particular , it appears there was a specific leader at Colossae who had come to a position of authority . |
| 16 | On Aug. 13 three soldiers and four guerrillas were killed when 50 members of a Hutu opposition group , who had come from a refugee camp in Tanzania , attacked an army barracks at Madamba in the south of the country . |
| 17 | On arriving at Luxeuil amid the wild beauty of the Vosges mountains , the volunteers who had come from a year in the trenches with the Legion or from the spartan discomfort of the Ambulance Service , thought that life was almost too good to be true . |
| 18 | There was no sign of Haines , no one had come with a list of grievances , and Harold was able to give some of the assurances that I had urged upon him before the first dinner . |
| 19 | Separation and divorce became inevitable ; it was a ‘ good divorce — non-violent and non-tumultuous … we had come to a real separating of the ways and it was obvious there was only one thing to do and we did it very simply . ’ |
| 20 | They had come on a sight-seeing visit and , of course , they had their cameras with them . |
| 21 | They had come into a gallery at the centre of which was a large glass case , round which the boys — apart from Khan and the Husayns — were crowded . |
| 22 | ‘ You can open your eyes now , ’ the Bookman told him when they had come to a stop . |
| 23 | They had come to a bridge . |
| 24 | It was n't until they had come to a halt that she had felt able to raise her eyes from the floor and look at the two men standing by the alter rail . |
| 25 | They did n't often have a chance to leave the pub together , but this afternoon she was determined to have a family outing , so as soon as the dinner-things were washed up , they had come for a walk to the Island Gardens . |
| 26 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 27 | Nutty realised afterwards that they had come within a hairs-breadth of total disaster . |
| 28 | They had come in a good strong box , which Boy had kept . |
| 29 | Although it had come as a shock , for he had never made it his business to enquire into the ramifications of his family , he had found a morbid humour in the situation . |
| 30 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |