Example sentences of "had come in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 His loyalty had come in a rush , like a drug , he had no doubts about which side he was on .
2 The helmsboy then engaged full ahead , performed two pirouettes , and thundered back the way he had come in a cloud of blue exhaust smoke and coloured speech .
3 Perhaps his tactics were more skilful ; perhaps the gentry were reconciled to paying taxes by the prospect of gain from monastic lands ; perhaps the King was wise in these last years to avoid taxing the poor , from whom overt resistance had come in the past ; perhaps there was a genuine fear of invasion from France .
4 Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables .
5 They had come in the night and lit a fire under the stage .
6 The blood had come in the middle of the night and she had still been appalled .
7 When Beuno had come in the tension had eased .
8 Kretschmer 's end had come in the spring of 1941 at almost the same time as his great rivals Schepke and Prien , when his U.99 was sunk by a destroyer commanded by Captain Donald Macintyre , and he had spent the rest of the war as a prisoner .
9 The one good thing that had happened too him in his life had come in the form of Jane .
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