Example sentences of "had come [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had had to come out on strike , then er all the workers be on strike fund , er did you and your father receive strike money ? |
| 2 | He had to come out with diabetes and all , he 's a pension . |
| 3 | Kelso were guilty of missing far too many tackles , but they did lose all their back row through injury during the game , and Eric Paxton had to come out of retirement as a replacement . |
| 4 | To get experience in obstetrics and gynaecology for vocational training I had to come back to London . |
| 5 | Before we had we bought a house and so I really had to come back to work because we needed my wages and erm the creche was just being brought out so I knew there was a chance of coming back . |
| 6 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
| 7 | He remembered that Sunday morning in '39 , when Wilf Bullingham , the local amateur photographer , had come around at Bert 's request . |
| 8 | The Vicar had come round to tea and was talking to Tommy and his mother about his daughter . |
| 9 | Under the high side there was a grey Buick that I had seen Harvey driving and a long black Lincoln Continental that looked like the President of the United States had come over for pizza and beer . |
| 10 | Even when Liz had come over for Mr Harding 's funeral , which had taken place just over a year ago , Laura had n't felt able to explain all of the difficulties she had faced . |
| 11 | The prince had come over to London to be married — from the house of Anna 's sister who was settled there — he hated every minute of it . |
| 12 | one of Mrs Tibbs 's boarders , ‘ an Irishman recently imported ’ who was ‘ in a perfectly wild state ; and had come over to England to be an apothecary , a clerk in a government office , an actor , a reporter , or anything else that turned up — he was not particular ’ . |
| 13 | Janina 's father was a Polish Jew who had come over to Britain to fight in the war . |
| 14 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 15 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 16 | The Scots had come over from Ireland and colonised most of Galloway , Kintyre and Arran . |
| 17 | The task of of carving through the English countryside was carried out by unskilled navvies , many of whom had come over from Ireland to earn a living . |
| 18 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 19 | Falling under the spell of an older , flamboyantly dressed and well-educated kinsman , Esme Stuart , who had come over from France , he was suspected of dangerously Papist leanings and of some unnatural sexual habits . |
| 20 | The Kleibers had come over from Germany some years before the war , and settled in Poplar . |
| 21 | Our older son had come over from San Francisco with his wife and the three children , so they were all here . |
| 22 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 23 | I had already employed an attendant , Toril , who had come over from Norway at the end of July to help me during and after my move . |
| 24 | Everyone was wandering around the house getting everything ready for my uncle who had come over from Nigeria . |
| 25 | She had come on to Benedict 's from an interview with her bank manager . |
| 26 | Besides , it had come on to rain , and the prospect of arriving home soaking wet to find my housemates Trisha and Brian curled up in a post-coital stupor in front of the TV was more than I could bear , so I swallowed my pride and went back inside . |
| 27 | She had come up to Jasper , who caught her wrist in his bony grip , and they ran together up towards the Underground . |
| 28 | They were two guys who had come up through Play School and Trumpton as well , I mean the commercials were fairly far out , Windy Miller 's head falls off when he eats the wrong bread or something like that . |
| 29 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 30 | They had seen that the volcano was in eruption even before dropping anchor ; many of them had come up on deck to see the spectacle . |