Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had only just come to be important before the ‘ unnatural ’ town of the industrial revolution conjured up some of the most dramatic and ‘ romanticized ’ of contrasts . |
| 2 | Chopra had glimpsed into the mind and understood ; an understanding which had only recently come to him , as his body aged and his life-force drained away . |
| 3 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 4 | She was suffering as he must have suffered ; and if he knew her pain might he not come to her , as she had so often come to him , gently reminding her that despair was an unavoidable but essential ordeal , of the quest ? |
| 5 | Mr Hill said attempts by Liverpool to start discussions between the two airport companies had so far come to nothing . |
| 6 | They had long ago come to terms with that sorrow . |
| 7 | Tony 's tragic death , that terrible ending of his young life , was something she had long ago come to terms with . |
| 8 | The party had not yet come to terms with the departure of Mrs Thatcher and was suffering an identity crisis . |
| 9 | The " literature " to which Playfair refers is , of course , classics rather than English literature ( which had not yet come to be seen as an adequate instrument of " culture " ) . |
| 10 | It was unlikely that anything he might discover had not already come to light . |
| 11 | I had not only come to faith . |
| 12 | In her heart of hearts Celia knew that she had n't really come to terms with her condition at all , but she could n't say so point-blank to Alison . |
| 13 | Many of the people on my courses on dying , for example , had never really come to terms with the inevitability of death in their own lives , and many a time we had to stop to allow distressed and upset people to leave the room . |
| 14 | There were letters from the boy here in his closet , no more than a week old , cold-blooded enough in their analysis of the military situation since Grey 's loss , and ruthless enough in their acceptance of the necessity to deal in extremes in the last resort , but still arguing the advantage of restraint , even daring to suggest that Lord Grey 's capture made no substantial alteration in the case for negotiation , since he was the original party to the complaint which had never actually come to a judgment under law . |