Example sentences of "had come [adv] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These proposals had come forward without any consultation with any health minister , and indeed without any of us knowing that such a study was taking place . |
| 2 | So it was n't Liu Chang who had come here in that instance . |
| 3 | I now noted that the latter had on each hand only three fingers and a thumb , and only four toes on each foot , in the manner of the monkeys we had come across in another existence . |
| 4 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 5 | Yet someone had come in by that door , very softly , and was now motionless just within it , hesitating to advance into the choir and interrupt the second office of the day . |
| 6 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
| 7 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 8 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 9 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 10 | One SAE applauded an AE who had come out with this line about futures : " This stuff is granny bonds , it 's so simple . " |