Example sentences of "had come [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some staple foods had come off ration with the promise of more to follow , all adding up to a gradual end to austerity . |
| 2 | Two men talked their way into the home of two elderly sisters , pretending that they had come on behalf of neighbours to cut down trees in the garden . |
| 3 | Soap opera had come to life within touching distance . |
| 4 | He saw , as though some wall painting had come to life before his eyes , the glitter of steel and the minute clusters of rainbow colours just moving over the crest of one rise , to descend into the next bowl ; and riding towards them , negligently like men out hawking , he saw a smaller group , no more than half a dozen mounted men , who had been until this moment hidden from them by the lie of the land . |
| 5 | Dr Nicholas Parkhouse had come to Kurdestan in 1985 under arrangements set up by International Medical Relief , a body linked to the French Medecins sans Frontières which was organizing a medical assistance operation spanning both sides of the frontier at the request of KDPI leader Qassemlou . |
| 6 | Both men had come to Whitely from other prisons , Robinson from Strangeways . |
| 7 | Gradually , over the years , I would piece together another family history ; of those who had come to Scotland in the terrible years of the 1840s , some of whom , indeed , had even been Irish Catholics . |
| 8 | His celebration after Ronnie Whelan had scored a simple equaliser was the perfect demonstration of how close his Liverpool team had come to elimination from the FA Cup . |
| 9 | The new target date was April 1692 and the main assembly area lay directly behind the Baie de La Hogue , where the Irish troops who had come to France under the Treaty of Limerick had disembarked . |
| 10 | He had come to Salzburg from his parental home in Augsburg in 1737 to study at the University with the intention of becoming a priest , but his love of music had led him instead to take up an appointment initially with the Canon of Salzburg before joining the Archbishop 's household . |
| 11 | The remaining land had come to Clarence by the forfeiture of Thomas lord Roos , although dower rights had prevented him enjoying Helmsley itself . |
| 12 | The remaining land had come to Clarence by the forfeiture of Thomas lord Roos , although dower rights had prevented him enjoying Helmsley itself . |
| 13 | But if it was , and if Kingdom had come to Rhodes with some sinister intent — to lure Heather away , to abduct her , to seduce her — what of the photographs ? |
| 14 | ‘ Pettigrew and I are going for a stroll , ’ said Mark , who had been finding the atmosphere of the tea room rather oppressive and not really what he had come to Rome for . |
| 15 | Situated only fifty metres up Plateros from the Plaza de Armas , it was central and quiet , yet unpopular with most gringo tourists : its staple was a thin trickle of Peruvians who had come to Cuzco for work . |
| 16 | On 28 May , he had a meeting with General Dulac , who had come to Colombey as an emissary from General Salan , to brief him about plans for Operation Resurrection . |
| 17 | History appeared irrevocably on the side of the ageing generation of Communists who had come to maturity in the era of the great depression and Hitler . |
| 18 | Franz Kupka , a Czech painter who had come to Paris in 1894 or 1895 , and who lived in an adjacent studio , was also drawn into contact with the Cubists . |
| 19 | He believed the Druids had come to England as part of an ‘ oriental colony ’ of Phoenicians of Abraham 's religion , whose leader was the Tyrian Hercules . |
| 20 | She was only half Indian , her mother being a Viennese woman who had come to England as an au pair and married a doctor from Darjeeling , a surgical registrar in a Bradford hospital . |
| 21 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 22 | Many Irish women , including myself , who had come to England for the first time were truly shocked by the levels of anti-Irish racism directed at us . |
| 23 | She had come to England from Berlin in the 1930s and had begun her studies at Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 24 | Whilst he remained at Allen Street he had a bedroom in the basement , Minton occupying the middle floors and the flat at the top of the house being let to Paul Danquah , the son of a Gold Coast politician who had come to England from Ghana to study law and had had an affair with a Lyons Corner House waitress , Paul 's mother . |
| 25 | Bred in Australia by his owner Sir Chester Manifold , Crisp had come to Britain in 1970 to be trained by Fred Winter . |
| 26 | Nickie , aged eighteen , lived with her parents , who had come to Britain from the West Indies in the 195Os , until she was sixteen . |
| 27 | Mr Usta said he had come to London under the impression that his kidney was to be donated to one of the ‘ broker ’ brothers , Ata Nur Kuntar . |
| 28 | The Census , which until ten years ago existed only on index cards and photographs in the Warburg 's Photographic Collection , seems to have had its origins in a project allocated by Fritz Saxl to Alfred Scharf who had come to London as a refugee from Vienna around 1935 . |
| 29 | Because there was no doubt that he had come to London in search of a scoop . |
| 30 | Why Duncan and Doreen had come to London in the mid-'seventies , and why they stayed , was a mystery . |