Example sentences of "had come [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to come round this way this morning to get to Whitehall It 's just so chock-a-block on that new ro roadway . |
| 2 | It had to come from some distance away since over the centuries the trees and bushes on both sides of the river had been lopped down . |
| 3 | ‘ The thought that he had come to that state of despair would break my heart . ’ |
| 4 | It is necessary I had come to that view for me , at that time it was necessary for me to contact one of the duty Chief Officers and on this occasion it was the Assistant Chief Constable Mr , so I made contact with him . |
| 5 | Harry had come to this place to meet someone . |
| 6 | The brush was all brown as though autumn had come to these islands where there is no autumn but only a more dangerous summer , but that was because the leaves had all been blown away . |
| 7 | Of course it would turn out that the dead girl was merely someone Jerome Fanshawe had come across that weekend and who had taken his fancy . |
| 8 | Really they need a horse-whipping , and my father would have administered it , I assure you , if he had come across such fiends ! |
| 9 | For clearly , if ever he trusted to this in the first place , he had come without any weapon . ’ |
| 10 | Yet Brandt , born illegitimate , exiled under the Nazis , who had even become a Norwegian citizen for a time after the war , had come through many trials . |
| 11 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |
| 12 | In God 's purposes Jesus had already gone to the cross , he was alre , hi his , his natural fate if you like , was already sealed , he had come for this purpose , he had come to die . |
| 13 | How many had come into this squat or that , asking , " Any of your soup left , Alice ? " and then sat breaking bread into it , handing back their plates for more . |
| 14 | Spurs had come into this match unbeaten in their previous eight matches , and although they have improved their League standing , the cup competitions remain their best hope of success . |
| 15 | However little ‘ charisma ’ had come into these considerations in 1933 , there seems no doubt that the ‘ Hitler myth ’ — or significant elements of it — played an important role in shaping the behaviour of the conservative élites in the following years in at least two ways . |
| 16 | A lot of the men , had come from this pit where dad worked . |
| 17 | Fund raising for the state-of-the-art machine began in 1987 and senior technician Peter Barton said help had come from several organisations including the WRVS , the Guides and the League of Friends . |
| 18 | ( Quite how he had come by this weapon , since it was cast into the lake at the conclusion of that great king 's reign , is not recorded ! ) |
| 19 | The bar had an entrance from another street and he had come in that way , threading between the tables , offering his goods , but with most of his attention on her . |
| 20 | March had come in more lamb than lion , there were windflowers in the woods , and the first primroses , unburned by frost , undashed and unmired by further rain , were just opening . |
| 21 | Like some great vessel swinging at anchor , Crossman 's argument had come round half circle , as he failed to resist the seduction of the alternative , opposite or incompatible theory . |