Example sentences of "had come [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 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 ’ .
3 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 .
4 Because the coffin had to come out of the stayed in the house the b the
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 " .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ?
15 Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it .
16 That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down .
17 Lights had come on beyond the doorway .
18 Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net .
19 It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well .
20 They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities .
21 But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man .
22 Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray .
23 ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . )
24 Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) .
25 They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home .
26 But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park .
27 Newman 's detailed researches in hospital had come up with the fact that this company was a subsidiary of INCUBUS .
28 It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side .
29 According to his brother in law , Serrano Suñer , Franco appointed José Luis Arrese as Minister Secretary-General of the Party in 1940 because Arrese had come up with the idea of " relieving the hunger problem with dolphin sandwiches " .
30 And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one .
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