Example sentences of "had come [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little knots of people stood about eyeing each other with an air of wondering why they had come at all . |
| 2 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 3 | ‘ The thought that he had come to that state of despair would break my heart . ’ |
| 4 | It is necessary I had come to that view for me , at that time it was necessary for me to contact one of the duty Chief Officers and on this occasion it was the Assistant Chief Constable Mr , so I made contact with him . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 6 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 7 | It was no wonder the good Sisters had come to such a place to work . |
| 8 | Harry had come to this place to meet someone . |
| 9 | He had come to this . |
| 10 | He had come to this , with a wife and three kids to support . |
| 11 | Now it had come to this , the repomen at the door for the second time . |
| 12 | But Pascoe had come to this broken-down hotel in these bleak streets already guessing that Charlie probably was n't Zeno . |
| 13 | She had come to this , to a limp white heap who had forgotten the names of her nearest and dearest . |
| 14 | What had she got to lose , she seemed to be saying , now that it had come to this ? |
| 15 | Ah this was really just Yona and and me you know I mean Yona obviously felt very strongly about her father standing in the rain on the picket line worked hard all his life an it had come to this really being sacked er they were just newly sacked then . |
| 16 | So , they had come to this . |
| 17 | The brush was all brown as though autumn had come to these islands where there is no autumn but only a more dangerous summer , but that was because the leaves had all been blown away . |
| 18 | No-one had come to these dead caverns in centuries . |
| 19 | We would then spend a few moments sharing any relevant and deep intuition that had come to any of us , and it was remarkable to see what a full and varied message the daily passage gave us . |
| 20 | Of course it would turn out that the dead girl was merely someone Jerome Fanshawe had come across that weekend and who had taken his fancy . |
| 21 | Really they need a horse-whipping , and my father would have administered it , I assure you , if he had come across such fiends ! |
| 22 | A British submarine on patrol off Crete had come across several Greek caiques or schooners of around 100 tons and known to be carrying German troops , petrol and ammunition . |
| 23 | This was the first time a Social Work Department in Scotland had come under such public fire for the same reasons . |
| 24 | For clearly , if ever he trusted to this in the first place , he had come without any weapon . ’ |
| 25 | Yet Brandt , born illegitimate , exiled under the Nazis , who had even become a Norwegian citizen for a time after the war , had come through many trials . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , we did find a general mood in Whitehall and amongst the senior civil servants that their system was not perfect and that the time had come for some fairly radical changes . |
| 27 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |
| 28 | In God 's purposes Jesus had already gone to the cross , he was alre , hi his , his natural fate if you like , was already sealed , he had come for this purpose , he had come to die . |
| 29 | Spurs had come into this match unbeaten in their previous eight matches , and although they have improved their League standing , the cup competitions remain their best hope of success . |
| 30 | How many had come into this squat or that , asking , " Any of your soup left , Alice ? " and then sat breaking bread into it , handing back their plates for more . |