Example sentences of "had come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , I did go on H R T because of the osteoporosis risk , but I was unlucky I was one of the I think twelve percent who had developed breast trouble and had to come off it . |
| 2 | And then there were the the dose was reduced and then I had to come off them altogether and after twenty nine years of dieting unsuccessfully I gave up dieting and I have n't put on any weight since I gave up dieting ! |
| 3 | Otherwise what they got some of the latest cranes out down there , you had to come off the barrel , go up the jib , come down again , then up again . |
| 4 | Well we ha went round wo we had to come off the bloody dance floor ! |
| 5 | Well as I actually had to going round the corner , to get myself round the corner , I had to come off the brake and onto the accelerator |
| 6 | The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys , and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library : they cooked their tea , ran errands for them , being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller 's teashop , and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted " Boy ! " , the last arrival being given the job . |
| 7 | Mm , mm , cos of King 's Cross , had to come at all it 's awful and one time you just went straight on the escalator and now you 've got to go |
| 8 | It had to come to this , he wrote . |
| 9 | It had to come to the nightly struggle with the big glass , like the struggle with Proteus , who must be held no matter what form he takes , bull , bear , fox , fire , water . |
| 10 | Jordan simply had to come to terms with political and economic imbalances . ’ |
| 11 | One of the girls had to come to the door to call him . |
| 12 | Even as a harmonica player he had to come to England to get work . |
| 13 | Underlying such accounts was an image of fraternal and cousinly solidarities and loyalties : if an outsider harmed your brother , you had to come to his support , even if you yourself were in dispute with him . |
| 14 | Then the pastry for the tarte , again all mixed by hand , would not lift off the board — which was the only time Eric had to come to the rescue . |
| 15 | She had to come to London from Aberdeen with her husband Alexander , a doctor turned printer . |
| 16 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 17 | I had to come to grips with a lot of things in a hurry . |
| 18 | I had to come to grips with how my understanding of the sovereignty of God applied in that situation . |
| 19 | Everything here seemed so unreal that I had to come to terms with it as soon as possible , so that I can begin work . |
| 20 | Three weeks later at a meeting I knew I had to come to the point where I said yes or no to Jesus . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I had to come to terms with the fact that I could lose my baby at any time to a foster mother . |
| 23 | Frenzied , speedy and a shocking jolt of personal film-making , which had to come to Britain before it was recognised as a classic . |
| 24 | I knew she had to come to me each time , it was just a case of sticking it out . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Government 's business managers had to come to the rescue when it looked as though the Bill might be lost at Committee Stage . |
| 27 | Prior to 1952 , section 14 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1848 provided that justices ‘ shall convict … or make an order … , ’ i.e. that they had to come to a decision . |
| 28 | She had to come to terms with his loyalties , whatever the pain it caused her . |
| 29 | Unlike Roman Catholics , who had to come to terms with the use of the vernacular , Anglicans had used English for four hundred years . |
| 30 | Except in winter , when heavy snow sometimes delayed us and another engine had to come to the rescue , we generally arrived on time at Parma. just occasionally a tram car went off the rails ; perhaps Camera was overcome by the thrill of speed . |