Example sentences of "they had come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as they had come through the hedge they saw Fiver . |
| 2 | ‘ I was in the sitting room and I could have been killed if they had come through my side , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Those anti the showing declined to give their names and said they had come as individuals . |
| 4 | He had killed one girl and now , because another was missing , they had come as if he had called them , as if they were his slaves . |
| 5 | They had come off the M3 and were cruising on the dual carriageway A303 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They had come on a sight-seeing visit and , of course , they had their cameras with them . |
| 8 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 9 | And then when they had come about two months old , something like that , er we used to carry them out now , into the woodlands and with the rest of the hens . |
| 10 | Furthermore , they had come into it straight from slavery . |
| 11 | Paradoxically , it was in this administrative vacuum that many members of the Colonial Service felt they had come into their own . |
| 12 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 13 | If , moreover , at this early date , sizeable Nazarean enclaves existed as far distant as Syria , one can not ignore the possibility that they had come into being prior to Jesus 's death and were already established at the time of the Crucifixion . |
| 14 | Provided , therefore , that the basis of the distinction between and was originally geographical-and it must be emphasized that this is only one possible explanation , albeit perhaps the most tenable on-it seems likely that they had come into currency before the middle of the sixteenth century , before the distinction between the geographical locations of the medreses had begun to become blurred . |
| 15 | Since then they had come into contact over one or two smaller matters , and it was to him that Greg naturally went in the aftermath of Hilda Machin 's death . |
| 16 | They had come into a gallery at the centre of which was a large glass case , round which the boys — apart from Khan and the Husayns — were crowded . |
| 17 | Less than a year later Rust and Sabrina were on a routine stakeout at the Marseilles docks when they had come under heavy fire from a gang of drug smugglers and Rust was hit in the spine , leaving him paralysed from the waist down . |
| 18 | They had come to the hotel to make love . |
| 19 | They said they had come to Britain because they did not need a visa and because they thought it was a free country . |
| 20 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 21 | They had come to the Kingsbrook bridge and the beginning of the footpath to Sewingbury that followed the waters of the river . |
| 22 | ‘ Matters of concern would have included the extent to which United Kingdom residents were investors in the Jersey funds , how they had come to be investors in those funds , how those funds were managed , whether they were kept separate from the United Kingdom funds or whether there was intermingling [ the switching of money between UK and offshore funds ] … and , ultimately , whether the Jersey funds as well as the United Kingdom funds could be properly accounted for . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You can open your eyes now , ’ the Bookman told him when they had come to a stop . |
| 24 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 25 | They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter . |
| 26 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 27 | Brian felt that they had come to the end of that day 's talk . |
| 28 | D'Alembord was an old friend who had dined frequently with Sharpe and Lucille since they had come to the Netherlands . |
| 29 | In collecting biographical material fans were asked to give accounts of the ways in which they had come to their present position in the terraces and to indicate on a sketch plan of the London Road End , past , and projected future locations . |
| 30 | Individuals in this group typically stated that they had become ‘ sick of the life ’ or they had come to ‘ hate smack ’ . |