Example sentences of "[noun] had come [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If any stranger had come that way it was likely he would think he was following the black road to hell . |
| 2 | The wheel had come full circle since the heady days of expansion after the Robbins Report in 1963 . |
| 3 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 4 | By the end of the nineteen fifties life in Orkney had come full circle and like everyone else we had acquired a taste for the material things in life . |
| 5 | The girl had come this way , she was sure . |
| 6 | Even when she passed the two-furlong pole , some five lengths off the leaders , she knew she had them ; but if the post had come ten yards earlier , she would never have got up . |
| 7 | Cadfael could not choose but feel some sympathy for one whose dubious but daring enterprise had come full circle , and now threatened him with disgrace and punishment ; all the more as Cadfael himself had just been spared a possibly similar exposure . |
| 8 | She said homeopathy had come full circle now and it was quite the in-thing to be treated by herbal remedies . |
| 9 | The conversation had come full circle . |
| 10 | The soldiers had come five months earlier . |
| 11 | With the new science and technology had come new weapons of destruction : armoured tanks , steel submarines and warships , aerial warfare , bombs , machine guns and the huge infantry field-cannons . |
| 12 | From those early Tudor days the English house had come full circle , but these Edwardian houses were warm , practical and comfortable ; they epitomized countrified romanticism . |