Example sentences of "[noun sg] had come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yussuf 's ex-wife had come to the police station and would not go away . |
| 5 | No courier had come from the south . |
| 6 | On the infrastructural side , most of the investment had come from Urban Programme and derelict-land grant sources . |
| 7 | Dolly put the practical question to Nahum when the back-slapping and handshaking had come to an end . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | George Burt was delighted that the Club had come to Swanage . |
| 10 | No new blood had come into the affairs of de Chavigny for years : everywhere Edouard found stagnation and apathy . |
| 11 | The blood had come in the middle of the night and she had still been appalled . |
| 12 | And they knew then where the blood had come from . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even the family car had come from some Church-loan scheme . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | An easy symbiosis had come into being between the cultivated pagan and the educated Christian . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And now that Wang Sau-leyan had come to his senses they would be strong again . |
| 19 | The Military Sports Group Trenck had come to the attention of the authorities after members had harassed a Viennese youth earlier in the month . |
| 20 | The evidence suggested that this reply had come to the attention of the deceased . |
| 21 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 22 | As the boat had come round the point they 'd gone up on deck . |
| 23 | Later , with the construction of the M25 as an orbital route around London , Abercrombie 's outer ring had come to fruition . |
| 24 | Dr Michael Longfield , director of Teesside Polytechnic for 11 years , said the institution had come of age . |
| 25 | Carol and Ron encouraged the duo — even if they were baffled as to where their talent had come from . |
| 26 | The year began with cold clammy fogs , and although some industry had come to a standstill because of workers called to the colours , and factories bombed by the enemy , we still did not have the Clean Air Act , and there was still quite a lot of smoke from domestic fires , and from the slack coal burnt by factories making munitions . |
| 27 | Light had come into the world again , even if it was to the accompaniment of tap-dancing elves . |
| 28 | The carriage had come to a standstill |
| 29 | The biscuit tin had come from England , part of a Christmas parcel sent by Madeleine . |
| 30 | The inner side of the track was almost sheer at this point , brown broken rock glistening with water , and I could see at a glance where the rock had come from , a gaping hole oozing mud as though a giant molar had been extracted . |