Example sentences of "[pron] had come to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 2 | I had come to the top of a long hill , so steep that the wheelbarrow was almost wrenched from my hands as the descent began . |
| 3 | For the first time since I had come to the college I had access to student political material because my boyfriend was reading the posters , leaflets and student newspapers to me . |
| 4 | I had come to the conclusion that there was no way of putting them back . |
| 5 | ‘ I said I had come to the time I knew myself . |
| 6 | All the cards and calendars which had come to the house were arranged on the mantelpiece , and amongst them were little boxes of sweets and candied fruit and brightly hued crackers . |
| 7 | Jean-Luc Roussel himself had come to the hospital and fretted and fluttered about like a true Cockney sparrow . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | She had come to no harm , but that was beside the point . |
| 11 | It was a summer afternoon — she could barely have been more than eight years old — and she had come to the Lodge with her brother and their cousin , Laetitia , who was visiting the Hall with her parents . |
| 12 | She had come to the beginning of the shelters now , which meant that she was drawing near the pier . |
| 13 | He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go . |
| 14 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she burst out hoarsely and started to fight in deadly earnest , slapping and scratching at him , little cries of panic coming from the back of her throat as her mind flashed back into full operation and she realised with sick fear just how close she had come to the edge . |
| 15 | She had come to the Centre in the depths of despair , weeping , gnashing her teeth and venting her hatred upon the doctors who had told her , at the eleventh hour that she had cancer and nothing could be done . |
| 16 | Long before she had come to the end of her story Charlie was saying , ‘ You 're a wonder , Becky Salmon , a positive wonder . ’ |
| 17 | Over the past few weeks she had come to the conclusion that the person she would most like to share her home was quiet , devoted Jenny . |
| 18 | She had come to the conclusion that if giving up Brentwoods and moving to the country was what Brian wanted , then perhaps she ought to go along with it , stop being selfish . |
| 19 | She had come to the refreshment hut , a crowded , sticky bee-hive . |
| 20 | In particular , it appears there was a specific leader at Colossae who had come to a position of authority . |
| 21 | A tide of crimson flowed into Isabel 's face when she hurriedly disentangled herself from fitzAlan and saw that Ralf had been joined by Sybil and Master Thomas , who had come to the inn door to wave them off . |
| 22 | In May 1788 , immediately after Pitt had persuaded the Commons to agree the slave trade would be debated in the next session , the mainly Quaker members of the London committee , accompanied by Thomas Walker and Thomas Cooper from Manchester who had come to the capital to inspire urgency , formed a deputation to prepare MPs for the forthcoming discussion . |
| 23 | And the person who was going to lead them to this golden opportunity was the new driving force who had come to the fore and already earned himself the nickname of ‘ the Eddie Shah of News on Sunday ’ — Chris Walsh . |
| 24 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 25 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 26 | A little more of the same , ’ he said to the waitress who had come to the table with Harvey 's coffee and was watching Signor fragolli with close interest . |
| 27 | Among the rich and famous who had come to the salon to have their hair cut , tinted and set , Paula recognised Dusty Springfield , the pop singer , her eyes big and sooty , her lips pearly pink , and was unable to suppress the thrill of excitement which ran through her . |
| 28 | Solutions in terms of this everyday discourse could have and may have been thought of by the client , who had come to the solicitor for a legal rather than an everyday solution . |
| 29 | In those matches Fred had teamed up again with brother Albert , who had come to the Palace from Northampton in 1933 . |
| 30 | After Sullivan left , he talk to Iranians who had come to the palace to see him , He said to the in wonderment , " Do you know what Sullivan has just said to me ? |