Example sentences of "[that] had come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lotus had another go at four-wheel drive the following year , this time with gas turbine power The dramatically wedged-shaped 56B was a development of the car that had come within a whisker of tinning the 1968 Indy 500 . |
| 2 | He drew off some fluid and relieved the pressure , then went back to the office , where he shook his head gloomily as he pored over the report that had come back with her from Seapark . |
| 3 | Lee was close to him and was standing on Philip 's shoelace that had come undone as he ran . |
| 4 | Instead , he concentrated on a bit of good news that had come out of the Munich mess . |
| 5 | In her hand she held the letter from England that had come that morning and Wilson knew what it contained : news of Miss Henrietta , of Mrs Surtees Cook , who was mortally ill with cancer of the womb . |
| 6 | The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood . |
| 7 | How little we realised that the front line was a focus , that it was important to the Lebanese , the only way to define the undefinable , the only method by which those who had suffered — which meant every Lebanese — could uniquely understand the nature of the calamity that had come upon them . |
| 8 | Visiting local bookshops at random , I came across more and more books that had come from libraries . |
| 9 | He put on exquisite robes that had come as a gift from distant India , and took of vial of scented water , then mounted upon his noble steed . |
| 10 | At Tain the ancient stones in the graveyard above the railway line looked in as I ate an apple bought in Ness in Lewis that had come from Spain . |
| 11 | This claim was thrown at a biological community that had come down heavily only recently in favour of Gregor Mendel 's theory of inheritance . |
| 12 | Yes , much more than that even : the only love of his young life that had come as love must come — uncalled and overpowering , without the sequel of second thoughts , without the burden of regret . |
| 13 | The barman was by now mellow and helpful and said we were rapidly running out of the ice that had come aboard in bags in Sudbury . |
| 14 | The warmth that had come with his laughter faded , and she felt he had tricked her into saying more than she intended . |
| 15 | How to make life peaceful was a new question that had come to tease her mind . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'll show him the sights , ’ McGowan said , and he leaned back and laughed , and the city lights on his mirror shades looked like gold zips that had come undone . |
| 17 | Right off the bat Dan agreed , detailing this as the one criticism that had come back from American TriAxis users . |
| 18 | The empiricism that had come out of the 19th century as the dominant intellectual mode had been twisted to the right , so to speak , by the ‘ white emigration ’ from Europe . |
| 19 | They were on exactly the same wavelength as Massim d'Azeglio who said , after Italy had been politically unified : ‘ We have made Italy , now we have to make Italians ’ , that is out of the inhabitants of the peninsula who had all sorts of identities , but not one based on a language they did not speak , and a state that had come into existence over their heads . |
| 20 | It was on the market and it was a grand gesture by the owner — one that was much appreciated by the parents of the nine children , and by the Action Committee that had come together so promptly to support them . |
| 21 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 22 | This led to the collapse in many universities of not only traditional moral theories but also many of the great idealistic philosophies ( such as Kant 's , for example ) that had come out of the Enlightenment itself . |
| 23 | We would then spend a few moments sharing any relevant and deep intuition that had come to any of us , and it was remarkable to see what a full and varied message the daily passage gave us . |
| 24 | He 'd seen the change that had come over Chantal since the news that Philippe was still alive . |
| 25 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 26 | Trying to keep her voice calm , and almost choking on the tears of guilt that had come to her eyes the moment she heard her aunt speak , Constance said , ‘ Oh , Aunt Louise , I 've met a boy … no , not really a boy … a young man ’ — and she began to sob . |
| 27 | She could n't bear the rift that had come between her and the aunt who had always understood and helped her ; who had so many times stood between her and her mother as faithful friend wanting the best for them both and who was now so alienated from her . |
| 28 | We were given mugs of coffee and slices of black bun , a dark Christmas-time cake that had come from Scotland too . |
| 29 | Chaplin never used film for some extraneous purpose ; rather he fulfilled himself as a cinema artist by using film 's own logic and by fulfilling the expectation of that vast audience that had come to accept film as something that worked and as something that offered ‘ sure-fire ’ entertainment . |
| 30 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |