Example sentences of "had come [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brandy was poured immediately , and ‘ On a side-board was placed for us , who had come off the sea , a substantial dinner , and a variety of wines . ’ |
| 2 | She 'd have to take off her thick blue jersey soon , and she could n't remember how many buttons had come off the shirt underneath , and it was sleeveless , and she had n't shaved her armpits since Philippa asked her to supper last week . |
| 3 | When he had come off the phone the night before and Erica had asked who it had been , he had replied , with a certain confidence and an audible distaste , ‘ Someone talking nonsense ’ . |
| 4 | His aerial had come off the chimney |
| 5 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 6 | THE post-match critic who wondered if Hibs had come off the team bus moving backwards might have been guilty of allowing his cynicism to get the better of him , but there can be no-one at Easter Road this morning able to derive any satisfaction from the side 's performance at Ibrox . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Chairman Bob Bennett revealed that the new purge had come at the end of a three-hour committee meeting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Etty with her friend Dolly Murchie , had come on the scene . |
| 11 | When he had come on the scene about fifteen years earlier he had been a spectacular hitter of a golf ball and a brilliant putter : a fearsome blend of talents in a golfer — if they combine regularly . |
| 12 | Two of the hotel functionaries had come on the scene . |
| 13 | She was in no hurry , and had made no plans to meet Rosie , since Francisco had come on the scene . |
| 14 | Perhaps , he said , the hijackers had come on the train . |
| 15 | Advance indication of its impact in terms of austerity measures had come with the presentation of the railways budget on Feb. 25 , with reduced government support and a concomitant increase averaging 20 per cent in passenger fare prices . |
| 16 | It was the girl who had come with the policeman . |
| 17 | Most of the principals had come with the intention of delivering their manifestos , irrespective of the line of questioning . |
| 18 | Owen laboured over the living , mending them as best he could , and over the dead , making them ready for burial , until he fell and lay like dead beside the last of them , but still conscious and aware , and Adam and some of those who had come with the priest to their aid carried him away and bedded him in quietness in one of the cottages . |
| 19 | The last of the boxes were being transferred from the back of the truck now , carried by men who sweated under the effort despite the chill wind that had come with the onset of the night . |
| 20 | A chill wind had come with the onset of darkness and Magee pulled up the collar of his coat as protection against the breeze . |
| 21 | I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt . |
| 22 | That silent communication had come with the mention of her brother 's name , after all . |
| 23 | The National Trust and the Trustees of Waddesdon Manor had come to the decision that it would be in the best interest of the house for as much work as possible to be carried out at one time , and the range of the repairs is such that the house can not be reopened until April 1993 . |
| 24 | He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go . |
| 25 | Obviously he had come to the heart of what he wanted to say . |
| 26 | When she arrived at the theatre that night she saw a note pinned up at the stage door stating that it had come to the management 's notice that a Girl had been flying , which was forbidden ! |
| 27 | I had come to the top of a long hill , so steep that the wheelbarrow was almost wrenched from my hands as the descent began . |
| 28 | They had come to the hotel to make love . |
| 29 | She had come to the beginning of the shelters now , which meant that she was drawing near the pier . |
| 30 | Rose had come to the dance to claim their place as a couple among the people in this loose , Christmas carnival . |