Example sentences of "had come [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Father told me you 'd opened the new girls ’ school , so I simply had to come to meet the new schoolteacher . |
| 2 | The forces creating a waged proletariat were not only stronger there in mining and in manufacturing , but after the mid eighteenth century a distinctive agrarian proletariat had come to characterise the southern and Midland counties . |
| 3 | The code of military behaviour had come to permeate the whole world of knightly behaviour , not just the field of battle . |
| 4 | We had come to see the Manx shear waters . |
| 5 | The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail . |
| 6 | The sentence comes from an essay called Eztetyke du Rêve , an eccentric spelling of Esthétique du Rêve ( ‘ Aesthetic of the Dream' ) in which , building on the idea that ‘ the dream is the only right which can not be forbidden ’ , Glauber Rocha described how he had come to realise the revolutionary importance of the mystical in Latin American popular culture . |
| 7 | Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " . |
| 8 | The disagreement about where they were to live had come to seem the only obstacle . |
| 9 | The Gendarme on duty at Boulogne Police Station looked surprised when I said that I had come to join the French Foreign Legion . |
| 10 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 11 | It is hardly surprising given the enhanced status , power and influence which the nineteenth century had brought , that Nonconformists had come to identify the Christian religion with the values and secular goals of their times , the most important of which was an acceptance of the inevitability of progress through change . |
| 12 | By the 18th Century , ‘ monkey ’ had come to mean the full five-gallon rum ration that was issued to the mess on a man-of-war . |
| 13 | She had touched on the deadness in himself and this spasm of melancholy had come to torment the impacted sin of a lifetime . |
| 14 | By the 1920s , the zaibatsu had come to dominate the newer manufacturing sectors like steel , machinery or shipbuilding but they also dominated the financial sector , owning two-thirds of banking and insurance institutions . |
| 15 | No longer could she take any pleasure in the act ; almost she had come to hate the interminable travail . |
| 16 | Murti Lāl and Māilo , Sigarup 's cousin and uncle who were joining their flocks with Kalchu 's for the journey , had come to check the final preparations . |
| 17 | Benedicta , cooler and more composed , was listening attentively to some story the nobleman was telling her , though now and again moving slightly away from him as if she had come to resent the young gallant 's attentions . |
| 18 | The smell of antiseptic , and the helpless waiting , brought back powerful memories of the visitors ' room two years ago , where the doctor had come to break the mind-numbing news that during a routine operation to remove her appendix her mother had died of heart failure . |
| 19 | My Lords , I have long thought that the time had come to change the self-imposed judicial rule that forbade any reference to the legislative history of an enactment as an aid to its interpretation . |
| 20 | But it shocked the Left which had come to regard the Soviet Union as the only genuine opponent of Fascism . |
| 21 | The challenge with which we were faced on the day of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion was that we knew that a very full House , which had come to hear the prime minister 's Maastricht statement , would deplete rapidly after he was finished , as the business to follow — a debate on the Earth Summit — was not very controversial . |
| 22 | This last had the support of the man who had come to symbolise the Franco-American alliance , Marie Joseph de Motier , Marquis de Lafayette , who having gone to America to fight for the rebel colonists , in May 1779 returned to France a major-general in the US army . |
| 23 | For the past two years , Washington has been desperate to unseat a ruler who , across the world , had come to symbolise the crass stupidity and shortsightedness of American policy in Latin America . |