Example sentences of "we had come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one of the leaders commented , this day 's trek was exactly what we had come to the jungle for . |
| 2 | Separation and divorce became inevitable ; it was a ‘ good divorce — non-violent and non-tumultuous … we had come to a real separating of the ways and it was obvious there was only one thing to do and we did it very simply . ’ |
| 3 | We had come to Phang Nga to visit the limestone islands that rear in their hundreds from the bay . |
| 4 | We had come to Rangkul to film bar-headed geese for the forthcoming BBC2 series Realms of the Russian Bear . |
| 5 | We had come to Minya by train , but hoped to leave by boat . |
| 6 | Here , at the very beginning of the voyage we had come to Indonesia to make , we were completely broke . |
| 7 | It was the closest we had come to the outside world in nearly four months yet they were responsible for the oil which glossed the harbour and had killed the coral . |
| 8 | This was our first note of encouragement and we were thankful for it , as we had come to the Island on a delicate mission and we needed support . |
| 9 | We had come to an arbour of bougainvillaea and morning glory at the end of the kitchen-garden terrace , set back and obliquely . |
| 10 | When at last he succeeded the man was sullen and uncooperative , repeatedly demanding why we had come to Bahdu . |
| 11 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 12 | We had come across the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway about to enjoy a ‘ Tank Engine ’ weekend of some kind . |
| 13 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |
| 14 | We had come in search of raptors and we saw our first after only five minutes of walking . |
| 15 | But the main reason was that I wanted to explain how far I felt we had come in our understanding of the universe : how we might be near finding a complete theory that would describe the universe and everything in it . |
| 16 | To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by . |
| 17 | It did not really matter who we were or where we had come from ; the fountain united us all in a common purpose and that was enough . |
| 18 | People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English . |
| 19 | On April 10th in the year nineteen hundred and eighty five — the legions again marched on Royal Bath — well , fifty of us by coach , car and rail — we had come from all over the country to join a contingent of local enthusiasts like lambs to the slaughter at Bath University for the Medau Easter Course . |