Example sentences of "had come [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , mm , cos of King 's Cross , had to come at all it 's awful and one time you just went straight on the escalator and now you 've got to go |
| 2 | It had to come to this , he wrote . |
| 3 | Barton was the only one of the three to make it as far as the quarters , but he still had to come through another two heats to overhaul Hardman 's tally of points . |
| 4 | I had to come round this way this morning to get to Whitehall It 's just so chock-a-block on that new ro roadway . |
| 5 | ‘ I had to come before two great nations died . |
| 6 | There was no fresh capital , the project did not have a specific budget so any money had to come from existing tight maintenance and operating budgets . |
| 7 | It had to come from some distance away since over the centuries the trees and bushes on both sides of the river had been lopped down . |
| 8 | Prior to that Meath had come off best when they accounted for Down in the 1990 league decider . |
| 9 | In a collision between the furtive sex of the old order and the impression of freer sex of the young , the Tories like the doomed professor in The Blue Angel three decades earlier had come off worse . |
| 10 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
| 11 | Jorge suddenly appeared at the door and Maggie did not wait to hear any answer ; she walked out of the room , scooping up her bag and swinging it over her shoulder , quite satisfied that this time Felipe de Santis had come off worst . |
| 12 | ‘ I wanted to come , ’ Maggie muttered , quite agreeing with him that she had come off worst in everything . |
| 13 | The call had come at 6.12 precisely . |
| 14 | Little knots of people stood about eyeing each other with an air of wondering why they had come at all . |
| 15 | The call for the entire squadron to scramble for a major transferral had come at 0.700 hours . |
| 16 | His 3970 — mainly breezy — first class runs had come at 23.77 . |
| 17 | Even the child in Molly 's arms smiled sleepily when her sisters told her that the water had come at last . |
| 18 | The time had come at last for Confucius to bow to the sages of the modern world ! |
| 19 | The birds gave voice so vigorously that relief that the sun had come at last might almost be detected in their song — the warm , exhilarating sun . |
| 20 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 21 | The changes on the labour market had come with greater rapidity than anticipated , too much reliance had been placed on the automatic adjustments , the mobility , of the market mechanism ’ ( quoted Flanagan et al. , 1983 , p. 605 ) . |
| 22 | Before she left , the Princess Royal became the first signatory to the new Napier University Visitors Book and on her departure , one of Napier 's youngest ‘ students ’ , four-year-old Kirsty Hutton who had come with other children from Napier 's crèche to wave goodbye to the Princess , presented her with a posy . |
| 23 | Johnson , as he did at Montrose , also employed much silence , and many who had come to one social occasion or another expecting to hear the grand disquisitioner , found him disappointingly reticent and withdrawn , even if making little antic noises to himself . |
| 24 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 25 | ‘ The thought that he had come to that state of despair would break my heart . ’ |
| 26 | It is necessary I had come to that view for me , at that time it was necessary for me to contact one of the duty Chief Officers and on this occasion it was the Assistant Chief Constable Mr , so I made contact with him . |
| 27 | Mr Nick Mitchell , the head of personnel for the signals and telecommunications section , said the board had come to certain conclusions about pay and conditions for its 7,000 S&T engineers after a review of manpower and reward systems . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 29 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 30 | It was no wonder the good Sisters had come to such a place to work . |