Example sentences of "he had come [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In common with some other contributors to Essays in Criticism he had come around to the view that the object of English should be to develop in students a " trained mind " rather than to produce " literary critics " or even " good readers " . |
| 2 | He had come here in the autumn of 1920 . |
| 3 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 4 | But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park . |
| 5 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 6 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 7 | He had come now in the mid-passage of his life to a forest dark and he had lost the straight path . |
| 8 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 9 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 10 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 11 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
| 12 | Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park . |
| 13 | Because then Jesus said to him , who was he talking to , let's , let's start off on the verse one after er after he had come down from the mountains , great crowds followed him that 's Jesus is n't it ? |
| 14 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 15 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 16 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 17 | He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops . |
| 18 | Far from it : he had come out of the darkness and was full of hope and plans . |
| 19 | Although she had rejected his dinner invitation , somehow he had come out of the scene the victor . |
| 20 | But after all , he had come far in the last few months . |
| 21 | He had come close to the mark in his various schemes for the inner cities , but he had always taken great care not to overstep the boundary . |
| 22 | A Lurgan solicitor who could speak menacing words in a slow quiet voice , he had come close to the leadership of the Unionist Party , had held cabinet office and retained good links with the paramilitaries and the workers ' leaders who had planned and organized the 1974 strike . |
| 23 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
| 24 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |