Example sentences of "had come [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a clear breach of the understanding on which he had come on a joint mission to the pope . |
| 2 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 3 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 4 | And what more could Miss Waters do but affirm that if one could not perform one 's Christian duty without being treated as a busybody then the parish had come to a sorry pass ? |
| 5 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 6 | Separation and divorce became inevitable ; it was a ‘ good divorce — non-violent and non-tumultuous … we had come to a real separating of the ways and it was obvious there was only one thing to do and we did it very simply . ’ |
| 7 | If she had come to a pitiful and desperate end , this woman for one would not be sorry . |
| 8 | On the ground , in accordance with the order , 5 Corps had already entered negotiations with the Soviet authorities to take them over , and had come to a final decision ( reported to Eighth Army ) on which groups were to go . |
| 9 | For a communist militant who had devoted his life to the struggle against fascist barbarism and oppression , the revelation that the Soviet communist state had come to a private agreement with Hitler 's Nazi Germany was a mortal body blow . |
| 10 | By 1982 ( the EC 's 25th birthday ) the momentum for a Single European Market had come to a virtual standstill . |
| 11 | I know this caused an immense amount of debate at Personnel sub-committee , and I thought that Personnel sub-committee had come to a reasonable solution . |
| 12 | The regime was n't defeated although it had come to a dead end and the liberation movement did not conquer the situation although they made government impossible . |
| 13 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 14 | But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ The whole thing had come to a horrible head and a lot of hurt has been suffered by both of them throughout the summer . |
| 16 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |
| 17 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 18 | The latter I had been intending to read for years and , by happenstance , had come across a cheap edition in a book sale just days before setting out . |
| 19 | In the final , Cowan met up with Mark Schofield ( Lancs ) , the number two seed who himself had come through a tough semi-final meeting with fellow Bisham boy , Philip Fowler . |
| 20 | But many Americans thought the time had come for a political change to the safer conservatism of the Republican Party . |
| 21 | The time had come for a deaf person to occupy it and Hudson 's chairmanship therefore lasted only three years . |
| 22 | The most awkward joints were where the glazing bars met the curved members , any-way , after cutting about fifty joints in all , rebates for glass , slots for fielded panels , mouldings on corners and moulded glazing fillets the time had come for a complete dry assembly of the members . |
| 23 | She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most . |
| 24 | Everyone had come for a good time , and they did not want it spoiling by some wildmen . |
| 25 | These architects fervently felt that the time had come for a new type of public building . |
| 26 | Her death had come as a great shock to him . |
| 27 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 28 | This was where his grandfather had come as a young man , to worship and to be at peace with himself . |
| 29 | His success had come as a complete surprise to him . |
| 30 | The marriage had come as a complete shock even to Eliot 's closest friends , such as Emily Hale and Mary Trevelyan . |