Example sentences of "had come a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So both groups had come a similar distance in the sense of having the indications that there was something interesting to pursue further . |
| 2 | Bazin , 60 , a former World Bank economist , had been the candidate of the right-wing Movement for the Establishment of Democracy in Haiti ( MIDH ) in the presidential elections of December 1990 [ see pp. 37911-12 ] , when he had come a distant second behind Aristide . |
| 3 | Foinavon had come a remote fourth in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park the previous December but few disputed that his starting price in the Grand National was a true reflection of his chance . |
| 4 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
| 5 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 6 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 7 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 8 | Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old . |
| 9 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 10 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 11 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 12 | Man had come a long , long way from his hominoid ancestry . |
| 13 | He had come a long way . |
| 14 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |
| 15 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 16 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 17 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 18 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 19 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
| 20 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 21 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |
| 22 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 23 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
| 24 | But with understanding had come a growing determination that she would never fall into the same trap — would never allow herself to be ruled by a foolish , hoping heart . |
| 25 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 26 | Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house . |