Example sentences of "had come [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 2 | The combined force of the rhythm section and the group 's percussive sound meant that Tyson had to come up with a different approach to his playing . |
| 3 | ‘ Somehow , we had to come up with a method of telling the body that it was daytime when it thought it was nightime and vice versa , ’ he says . |
| 4 | On the shores of uncharted CCT requirements the Computer Co-ordination Section has realised that it had to come up with a leaner , meaner , faster name for the Section . |
| 5 | They had to come up with a plan of action on how to set up a Tyrolean Traverse to safety cross the 80 foot wide gorge — and come back again . |
| 6 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 7 | Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that . |
| 8 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |
| 9 | Lucy was already regretting her impulsive words , but , knowing she had to come up with an answer , she said in a matter-of-fact tone , ‘ Silas has already assured me that women will no longer play a part in his life . |
| 10 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 11 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 12 | Because the coffin had to come out of the stayed in the house the b the |
| 13 | As Major Pond discovered , seat-holders were let in through side doors while hoi polloi had to come in through the front in the hope of getting what they could . |
| 14 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 15 | I had to come back to a degree agreeing with them . |
| 16 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 17 | Washington , he said , stood by its commitment to overcome the division of Europe , Germany and Berlin , but this had to come about in a gradual process which satisfied German aspirations and met the ‘ legitimate interests ’ of all concerned . |
| 18 | In common with some other contributors to Essays in Criticism he had come around to the view that the object of English should be to develop in students a " trained mind " rather than to produce " literary critics " or even " good readers " . |
| 19 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 20 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 21 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 22 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 23 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |
| 24 | Zeyer had come on as a defender to protect the score when Kaiserslautern levelled at 1–1 , but his role changed dramatically when Wednesday immediately hit back to make it 2–1 . |
| 25 | Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 28 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |
| 29 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 30 | Lights had come on beyond the doorway . |