Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [adv] come [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of . |
| 2 | Lessing consulted Dinah , who had come back tired from an evening full of accidents ; the scenery had fallen , the lesser lady had not come in on cue , the leading man had been a failure and she would have to find someone else . |
| 3 | The show was over , and Sweetheart had not come back for him . |
| 4 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 5 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 6 | It was as if the news had never come through at all . |
| 7 | Her father had n't come back by one o'clock . |
| 8 | Not a single other EC government had yesterday come out in support of the American President 's decision . |
| 9 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 10 | It was lucky that Fiver had not come out with this foolish notion in front of any of the others , especially as there was trouble enough already . |