Example sentences of "[pers pn] had come to [art] [noun] " 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 | In my job , I had expected the sick and the dying to trust God , and I had come to the Sahara hoping to discover whether I myself would keep the faith in adverse circumstances . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had come to the conclusion that there was no way of putting them back . |
| 6 | ‘ I said I had come to the time I knew myself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She ‘ knew ’ that ‘ she had come to a place at the end of the world ’ , a backwater where there was no action at all . |
| 9 | She had come to no harm , but that was beside the point . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had come to the beginning of the shelters now , which meant that she was drawing near the pier . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But had it not been to rid herself of her aura of wealth and privilege which had created her feeling that she was the darling of the gods — although the same gods knew how brutally they had treated her — that she had come to the East End to work , and to live as though she really needed to , and to survive on the pittance which she had earned , without bolting back again to luxury and comfort ? |
| 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 | We had come to an arbour of bougainvillaea and morning glory at the end of the kitchen-garden terrace , set back and obliquely . |
| 21 | As one of the leaders commented , this day 's trek was exactly what we had come to the jungle for . |
| 22 | This was our first note of encouragement and we were thankful for it , as we had come to the Island on a delicate mission and we needed support . |
| 23 | For on that Saturday Mr Pozsgay organised a radio interview to tell the world that a party committee working under him had come to the conclusion that 1956 had been a popular uprising , thus ensuring that the terms of reference in Hungarian politics would never be the same again . |
| 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 | ‘ You can open your eyes now , ’ the Bookman told him when they had come to a stop . |
| 26 | They had come to a bridge . |
| 27 | They had come to the hotel to make love . |
| 28 | D'Alembord was an old friend who had dined frequently with Sharpe and Lucille since they had come to the Netherlands . |
| 29 | They had come to the Kingsbrook bridge and the beginning of the footpath to Sewingbury that followed the waters of the river . |
| 30 | But they had come to the door of her apartment and the moment was here and now , impossible to delay . |