Example sentences of "had come [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Well we ha went round wo we had to come off the bloody dance floor !
2 It had to come to the nightly struggle with the big glass , like the struggle with Proteus , who must be held no matter what form he takes , bull , bear , fox , fire , water .
3 Suddenly , she knew that her aunt 's news had come at the perfect time .
4 Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him .
5 It was to this area that the Hasteds had come at the very beginning of the 19th century ; previously their home had been in the City , in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Olave , Hart Street , but like many of their contemporaries they made the pilgrimage east .
6 He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment .
7 She had come on no other Scarabae beyond Cheta , who had brought her breakfast .
8 This was a clear breach of the understanding on which he had come on a joint mission to the pope .
9 The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy .
10 At first , Emma 's notes , on brightly coloured paper , had come on every ninth or tenth day .
11 When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not .
12 The policeman and the girl had come on an ordinary routine visit .
13 That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks .
14 Lord Wakeham , who had come with the necessary cheque , had muttered something about boys being boys , and that Robertson would do well to go to his hotel and sleep it off .
15 No encore was needed , despite the clamour for one and the band left knowing they 'd converted all who had come with an open mind .
16 No encore was needed , despite the clamour for one and the band left knowing they 'd converted all who had come with an open mind .
17 And what more could Miss Waters do but affirm that if one could not perform one 's Christian duty without being treated as a busybody then the parish had come to a sorry pass ?
18 The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists .
19 Separation and divorce became inevitable ; it was a ‘ good divorce — non-violent and non-tumultuous … we had come to a real separating of the ways and it was obvious there was only one thing to do and we did it very simply . ’
20 If she had come to a pitiful and desperate end , this woman for one would not be sorry .
21 On the ground , in accordance with the order , 5 Corps had already entered negotiations with the Soviet authorities to take them over , and had come to a final decision ( reported to Eighth Army ) on which groups were to go .
22 For a communist militant who had devoted his life to the struggle against fascist barbarism and oppression , the revelation that the Soviet communist state had come to a private agreement with Hitler 's Nazi Germany was a mortal body blow .
23 By 1982 ( the EC 's 25th birthday ) the momentum for a Single European Market had come to a virtual standstill .
24 I know this caused an immense amount of debate at Personnel sub-committee , and I thought that Personnel sub-committee had come to a reasonable solution .
25 The regime was n't defeated although it had come to a dead end and the liberation movement did not conquer the situation although they made government impossible .
26 When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England .
27 But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ .
28 ‘ The whole thing had come to a horrible head and a lot of hurt has been suffered by both of them throughout the summer .
29 I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction .
30 It took nearly two hours to get the pony out on to solid ground , but when they had done so and he was examined , Farmer Yatton was able to tell the thankful Angela that her pet had come to no real harm .
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