Example sentences of "she had come [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't vain enough to think that the way she had come on to me that first night was solely down to my resistless charms . |
| 2 | She had come on to Benedict 's from an interview with her bank manager . |
| 3 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |
| 4 | She had come up to Jasper , who caught her wrist in his bony grip , and they ran together up towards the Underground . |
| 5 | And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one . |
| 6 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
| 7 | Of course , she had come up against death , or the prospect of it , many times in the course of her work , but somehow she had never acquired the sort of immunity against emotional involvement , that almost instinctive shutting off , as so many of her colleagues had seemed to do . |
| 8 | She had come in with fresh water to bathe his back and hands , and stole extra time to finish the job , because he was conscious and willing to lie still . |
| 9 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 10 | She had come in from work one evening to find her mother and father dead in each other 's arms . |
| 11 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 12 | Benny sprinted for the doors she had come in by , but already more guards were arriving from their stations , and the first few shots buzzed past her . |
| 13 | And she had asked him what would have happened to her if she had not had these good friends who had come to her aid and given her shelter , and when , in the form of an excuse , his answer had been , did n't she realize that he was distracted ? she had come back with , did n't he realize he had almost killed a man , that he was lucky he was n't in gaol now answering a charge of murder ? |
| 14 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |
| 15 | Had n't everything gone wrong from the moment she had come back to Eastlake ? |
| 16 | That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen . |
| 17 | He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed . |
| 18 | She remembered that fated evening when she had come back from Wimbledon after seeing Hindley Foster . |
| 19 | Ever since that ghastly winter 's night when she had come back from Wimbledon and said she was pregnant . |
| 20 | When at last they lay quietly , her head resting on Luke 's shoulder , her hand spread against the damp warmth of his skin , Fran felt as though she had come back from some great journey that had shifted her conception and understanding of everything . |
| 21 | Some months later , when she judged that things would have quietened down , she had come down to London and had set about re-establishing her business . |
| 22 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There were no doors in the walls , but she could tell from the noise that the building she thought she had come out of was a pub . |