Example sentences of "had come at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 3 | Suddenly , she knew that her aunt 's news had come at the perfect time . |
| 4 | Chairman Bob Bennett revealed that the new purge had come at the end of a three-hour committee meeting . |
| 5 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 6 | He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment . |
| 7 | 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 . |