Example sentences of "had come in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had come in a good strong box , which Boy had kept . |
| 2 | Sam Yaeger , ever an exhibitionist , had come in a white dinner jacket , having lent Gareth his black . |
| 3 | The final showdown between the Viet-Minh and the cream of the French colonial Army had come in a deserted valley in the north of Vietnam , around a small village called Dien Bien Phu . |
| 4 | The greatest period of administrative reform in the history of the Habsburg territories had come in the two decades after 1749 ( see pp. 153–4 ) ; here Joseph achieved much less than his mother . |
| 5 | The only clue had come in the late morning . |
| 6 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 7 | But the most vicious discriminiation had come in the previous year , from Edmund Wilson , who applauded the structure of The Waste Land by contrasting it to ‘ the extremely ill-focused Eight Cantos of his imitator Mr Ezra Pound , who presents only a bewildering mosaic with no central emotion to provide a key ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself . |