Example sentences of "had come [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In common with some other contributors to Essays in Criticism he had come around to the view that the object of English should be to develop in students a " trained mind " rather than to produce " literary critics " or even " good readers " . |
| 2 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 3 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 4 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 5 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Zeyer had come on as a defender to protect the score when Kaiserslautern levelled at 1–1 , but his role changed dramatically when Wednesday immediately hit back to make it 2–1 . |
| 8 | Peter Foley , who had come on as a substitute struck the upright with a powerful drive , for the ball to rebound clear . |
| 9 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 10 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 11 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |
| 12 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 13 | Lights had come on beyond the doorway . |
| 14 | Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net . |
| 15 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 16 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
| 17 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 18 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 19 | ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . ) |
| 20 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 21 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 22 | But this time the executive had come up with a compromise of sterling dimness . |
| 23 | Other people and think-tanks had come up with a similar recipe before and never had much impact . |
| 24 | Some time before , Malcolm had come up with a list of half a dozen names . |
| 25 | By this meeting Nigel had come up with a further solution : rather than abolish SERPS , he suggested that we modify it to the point that it could be afforded . |
| 26 | He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea . |
| 27 | Merkel had come up with a sinister final solution to the population explosion . |
| 28 | Wallace had come up with a great zoological truth . |
| 29 | Such crassness was inevitable but for all that the Warner Bros team had come up with a powerful film . |
| 30 | The production team , which again included writers Robert Lord and Abem Finkel , had made a film which depoliticized the Legion by making its motive force sheer racketeering rather than political control and by making the violence and executions personal rather than political but nevertheless they had come up with a realistic depiction of how a weak man could be drawn into a recognizably Fascist organization . |