Example sentences of "had come [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to come to London from Aberdeen with her husband Alexander , a doctor turned printer . |
| 2 | I had to come to grips with a lot of things in a hurry . |
| 3 | I had to come to grips with how my understanding of the sovereignty of God applied in that situation . |
| 4 | President François Mitterrand had warned in December following the most recent city riots [ see p. 37869 ] that modern socialism had to come to grips with the management of urban society , and the worst affected local authorities had complained that they lacked resources and bore a heavy burden compared with more affluent areas . |
| 5 | Jordan simply had to come to terms with political and economic imbalances . ’ |
| 6 | Everything here seemed so unreal that I had to come to terms with it as soon as possible , so that I can begin work . |
| 7 | Victorians loved to wallow in the sentimentality of death because it was so prevalent and self-evident in their society that they had to come to terms with it as best they could . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to come to terms with the fact that I could lose my baby at any time to a foster mother . |
| 9 | In all cases English kings had to come to terms with the conditions which they found in these three different countries ; and in all cases they had to show an ability to adapt themselves and their armies to new conditions , military , social and economic , as well as to new thinking in the ways that armies were formed and war was fought . |
| 10 | She had to come to terms with his loyalties , whatever the pain it caused her . |
| 11 | Unlike Roman Catholics , who had to come to terms with the use of the vernacular , Anglicans had used English for four hundred years . |
| 12 | The popes had to come to terms with the nobles and those who came from the noble families of the city naturally built up their own families and factions in order to survive . |
| 13 | And it came home to me that you know we all had to come to terms in some way with erm with what it was all about and the kids and you know and it became something of a I mean i it was the experience that we went through you know it was i it was you know something that we 'll always remember I think because it 'll always make Christmas different I think for us in a way you know but it And when they came up from South Wales with car loads and van loads and I mean we all just sobbed you know I mean there was nothing to do really you know it was just and I think anyway that was Christmas , but I mean er . |
| 14 | The new site , because of its dependence on steam , needed regular coal supplies and , as the railway had not by this date reached Bourton , coal supplies had to come by cart from either Adlestrop Station , some six miles away , or Cheltenham , sixteen miles away . |
| 15 | ‘ The locomotive for our London to Glasgow train was based in Leicester , ’ Mr Gisby says , ‘ so it had to come from Leicester to London before it did any work . |
| 16 | Some staple foods had come off ration with the promise of more to follow , all adding up to a gradual end to austerity . |
| 17 | Two men talked their way into the home of two elderly sisters , pretending that they had come on behalf of neighbours to cut down trees in the garden . |
| 18 | Soap opera had come to life within touching distance . |
| 19 | He saw , as though some wall painting had come to life before his eyes , the glitter of steel and the minute clusters of rainbow colours just moving over the crest of one rise , to descend into the next bowl ; and riding towards them , negligently like men out hawking , he saw a smaller group , no more than half a dozen mounted men , who had been until this moment hidden from them by the lie of the land . |
| 20 | Dr Nicholas Parkhouse had come to Kurdestan in 1985 under arrangements set up by International Medical Relief , a body linked to the French Medecins sans Frontières which was organizing a medical assistance operation spanning both sides of the frontier at the request of KDPI leader Qassemlou . |
| 21 | Both men had come to Whitely from other prisons , Robinson from Strangeways . |
| 22 | Gradually , over the years , I would piece together another family history ; of those who had come to Scotland in the terrible years of the 1840s , some of whom , indeed , had even been Irish Catholics . |
| 23 | His celebration after Ronnie Whelan had scored a simple equaliser was the perfect demonstration of how close his Liverpool team had come to elimination from the FA Cup . |
| 24 | The new target date was April 1692 and the main assembly area lay directly behind the Baie de La Hogue , where the Irish troops who had come to France under the Treaty of Limerick had disembarked . |
| 25 | He had come to Salzburg from his parental home in Augsburg in 1737 to study at the University with the intention of becoming a priest , but his love of music had led him instead to take up an appointment initially with the Canon of Salzburg before joining the Archbishop 's household . |
| 26 | The remaining land had come to Clarence by the forfeiture of Thomas lord Roos , although dower rights had prevented him enjoying Helmsley itself . |
| 27 | The remaining land had come to Clarence by the forfeiture of Thomas lord Roos , although dower rights had prevented him enjoying Helmsley itself . |
| 28 | But if it was , and if Kingdom had come to Rhodes with some sinister intent — to lure Heather away , to abduct her , to seduce her — what of the photographs ? |
| 29 | ‘ Pettigrew and I are going for a stroll , ’ said Mark , who had been finding the atmosphere of the tea room rather oppressive and not really what he had come to Rome for . |
| 30 | Situated only fifty metres up Plateros from the Plaza de Armas , it was central and quiet , yet unpopular with most gringo tourists : its staple was a thin trickle of Peruvians who had come to Cuzco for work . |