Example sentences of "[pers pn] had come to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Émile permitted himself the luxury of imagining I had come to Paris just to see him . |
| 2 | We talked about the school , about Oxford , my family , about teaching English to foreigners , about why I had come to Greece . |
| 3 | Moving and inspiring though all this was , in fact I had come to Eyam to attend the opening of Eyam Hall , in the village , by the present Duchess of Devonshire . |
| 4 | I had said that we should go to Egypt for this , not believing that the occasion would ever really arise ; that I should be married to Syl and taken to the country in which I had come to life and lost it . |
| 5 | I had come to Mecca and now I was seeing God . |
| 6 | I had come to Lofoten to photograph these beasts in real mountains for my forthcoming catalogue , so I pushed away . |
| 7 | I had come to Uganda to observe how the women use music to give advice , support each other and express their need for political identity . |
| 8 | I had come to Zurich from an ‘ off ’ period — it was my first race since the Commonwealth , a gap of about three weeks . |
| 9 | Ever since she had come to Norfolk the skies had been grey , and she suddenly longed for warmth . |
| 10 | She had come to England from Berlin in the 1930s and had begun her studies at Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 11 | In fact she lay in the warm , dark grey shadows of her room quite at peace for the first time since she had come to Italy . |
| 12 | She had come to London after the war as a music student , and felt by this time she was neither Canadian or English . |
| 13 | She had come to London to take control of her own life , and now she was meekly handing over the reins to this man who was almost a stranger . |
| 14 | She had come to painting classes at Westminster . |
| 15 | This was the first sensible suggestion she had heard from the headmaster since she had come to Burleigh School , one week after the beginning of Spring term ( her predecessor having expired , Kennedy 's Latin Primer in hand , in the middle of the pluperfect of Amo with Form 2B ) . |
| 16 | He had seen her only once , and that briefly , no more than a few days , when she had come to Richard 's court on a state visit with her ancient husband ; but he had never forgotten her , and after the duke 's death , which by some dispensation of providence had taken place shortly after Henry 's coronation , he had taken advantage of every courier to France to send her devout greetings . |
| 17 | She 'd needed all her courage then , to stand over him and introduce herself ; to refuse to be sent away , to admit that she had come to Geneva in vain . |
| 18 | She had come to Hochhauser in hope and desperation and Gesner had nearly destroyed her . |
| 19 | She felt faint when she thought how near she had come to disaster . |
| 20 | Gradually she had come to terms with it , accepted it as a fact of life , though the grief had been longer in going and the sadness was still sometimes there , an echo in the night . |
| 21 | Displacing Sylvie before she had come to terms with her . |
| 22 | Secretly , Beth admired Cissie 's strong character , and the way she had come to terms with the tragedies in her life . |
| 23 | She had come to terms with Newley 's affair with Arabella ; she believed that she had her husband precisely where she wanted him . |
| 24 | ‘ If you had come to England as I thought you would have done , ’ she interrupted frostily . |
| 25 | If you could go to her , genuinely sorry for the hurt you had caused her and knowing that you had come to terms with your conflict about the difference in your ages , then maybe she might be willing to consider starting again . |
| 26 | We had come to Minya by train , but hoped to leave by boat . |
| 27 | Here , at the very beginning of the voyage we had come to Indonesia to make , we were completely broke . |
| 28 | We had come to Phang Nga to visit the limestone islands that rear in their hundreds from the bay . |
| 29 | We had come to Rangkul to film bar-headed geese for the forthcoming BBC2 series Realms of the Russian Bear . |
| 30 | When at last he succeeded the man was sullen and uncooperative , repeatedly demanding why we had come to Bahdu . |