Example sentences of "[noun] had come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it seemed polite to visit the Freitas family , especially after Lina had come to Monte Samana on a fruitless errand . |
| 2 | The lofty idea that India could endure as a secular democracy of diverse peoples had come under open attack from the Hindu chauvinists of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) . |
| 3 | And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop . |
| 4 | The fans had come for goals and it was Pompey who nearly supplied the first . |
| 5 | Romance blossomed once again as she realised how close Neil had come to being killed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Other teams in the 1993 contest had come from breweries including Whitbread , Fuller 's , Young 's and Courage and the event was held at Park Royal . |
| 8 | Yussuf 's ex-wife had come to the police station and would not go away . |
| 9 | No courier had come from the south . |
| 10 | On the infrastructural side , most of the investment had come from Urban Programme and derelict-land grant sources . |
| 11 | Dolly put the practical question to Nahum when the back-slapping and handshaking had come to an end . |
| 12 | Overall , more than nine out of ten ( 93% ) of the very recent ( post-1976 ) publications issued to readers had come to the Library under copyright deposit legislation , the remainder having been acquired by purchase ( 6% ) or donation ( 2% ) . |
| 13 | The spider 's future had come under threat with the lowering of water levels in its fenland habitat , as a result of a prolonged drought and water extraction from a nearby borehole . |
| 14 | George Burt was delighted that the Club had come to Swanage . |
| 15 | No new blood had come into the affairs of de Chavigny for years : everywhere Edouard found stagnation and apathy . |
| 16 | The blood had come in the middle of the night and she had still been appalled . |
| 17 | And they knew then where the blood had come from . |
| 18 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 19 | At five to seven she decided that her long gold hair needed another combing — and jumped up from the dressing-table as if shot when a minute later the phone in her room rang and the receptionist told her that a car had come for her . |
| 20 | Even the family car had come from some Church-loan scheme . |
| 21 | The suggestion about the car had come from the rifleman — he 'd asked if I had a car , and I 'd said yes , because I did n't want them to know that I 'd come by boat . |
| 22 | David had come to the United States as a headliner . |
| 23 | An easy symbiosis had come into being between the cultivated pagan and the educated Christian . |
| 24 | But this was dear old Mr Rabinowitz himself , spruced up , a new suit , who told in a quavering voice how this perfect stranger had come to his aid after the Blackshirts had smashed open his tailor 's shop . |
| 25 | Although the funds had come from Hurley 's budget , the yacht was bought in the name of Andreous Kasikopu , a retired Cypriot marine police captain who looked remarkably like Claude Rains . |
| 26 | And now that Wang Sau-leyan had come to his senses they would be strong again . |
| 27 | The Military Sports Group Trenck had come to the attention of the authorities after members had harassed a Viennese youth earlier in the month . |
| 28 | Some 200 Russian Jews had come to the Netherlands from Israel via Hungary in mid-1991 and sought asylum on the grounds that they had been discriminated against when they arrived in Israel from the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | When I traced my own family tree I found that the Heys had come into the parish of Penistone ( and more particularly to that part known as the township of Thurlstone where I lived ) about the year 1800 and that during the previous three centuries they had resided in Kirkburton parish immediately to the north . |
| 30 | Even Sir John Stokes , the bristle-brushed old gent for whom ‘ the twentieth century has been a mistake ’ , sat in the Commons representing the Birmingham dormitories of Halesowen and Stourbridge , where the closest most of his supporters had come to a foxhunt was a roadside cocktail lounge called the Whip and Saddle . |