Example sentences of "[noun] had come [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 2 | Lee and his stepdad had come out of the shed . |
| 3 | The words had come out with a distinct tang of broad Lancashire , but she immediately withdrew into her pseudo-Southern gentility . |
| 4 | The words had come out in a babble and by the time he had gathered his wits and been able to respond she had put the phone down . |
| 5 | Behind him , Ann had come out of the kitchen with Matthew clutching her skirt . |
| 6 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 7 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 8 | A wind had come through with the Josephites , and blown away the man 's whole world . |
| 9 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Community architecture had come about as a reaction to the tower blocks of the 1960s which were clearly not working : they had led to vandalism and mugging and terrifying isolation for the people who lived in them . |
| 12 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 13 | Merkel had come up with a sinister final solution to the population explosion . |
| 14 | The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote . |
| 15 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 16 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 17 | By this meeting Nigel had come up with a further solution : rather than abolish SERPS , he suggested that we modify it to the point that it could be afforded . |
| 18 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 19 | Such crassness was inevitable but for all that the Warner Bros team had come up with a powerful film . |
| 20 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 21 | A couple of airmen had come out of the trenches to see what the shooting was about . |
| 22 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 23 | This crisis had come about as a result of the Emperor 's determination to carry through a series of far-reaching reforms which had actually been begun in a tentative fashion some years previously . |
| 24 | Louis had come up from the saloon . |
| 25 | Lights had come on beyond the doorway . |
| 26 | The smile had come out for the landlord , and disappeared when he had left the room . |
| 27 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 28 | A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road … |
| 29 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 30 | 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 . |