Example sentences of "she had [adv] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had just come from London and she told us all about the great spirit of British resistance to the Nazi air attacks . |
| 2 | Pleasingly , however , though to energise her heart into a few racing beats , Moira Russell came out almost immediately and , holding the door she had just come through open , smiled and said , ‘ Mr Massingham will see you now . ’ |
| 3 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 4 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 5 | She had also come through a baptism in front of Britain 's most demanding audience . |
| 6 | But Mary had been touched by it as a girl and , as her goat herds had taken her high in the woods , she had often come across Kitty in the course of things . |
| 7 | She had never come across a five-year-old before , or indeed a ten-year-old , who could multiply with such facility . |
| 8 | She had never come to terms with her old life , but , inch by inch , she was coming to terms with this one : her first reality . |
| 9 | Eddie had been dead ten long years , a life so abruptly terminated that she had never come to terms with it . |
| 10 | In the past , she had only come across the ‘ strong , silent men ’ who fitted her old script . |
| 11 | She had still come to no conclusion about what Naylor would do when , at ten minutes to eight , she left her room . |