Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] came " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I intend writing the story I came here to find . ’ |
| 2 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 3 | In case I came back . ’ |
| 4 | A COUPLE of weeks ago in the busy London evening rush hour I came across Britain 's hardest-working Royal travelling to another demanding job . |
| 5 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 6 | ‘ As a writer I came to realise the obvious : the subject of the dream is the dreamer , ’ Morrison remarks , as she points out how unwaveringly the subject of whiteness — what it is and what it is n't — preoccupies the American literary imagination ( and , I suspect the European as well ) . |
| 7 | Of course I came down to earth on my next round . |
| 8 | It seemed like every time I went out to walk the course I came back with wet feet . " |
| 9 | One hot afternoon I came down from my bedroom , after a brief but taxing siesta , to see the Agent pull up in his outlandish Packard . |
| 10 | At the university I came out from my shell . |
| 11 | With lots of luck I came face to face with a round face man in uniform . |
| 12 | The best jumper I came across was the Argentinian , Llanes , who outfoxed me time and again . |
| 13 | No I missed it , there was no beasts in the field I came down . |
| 14 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 15 | Highton Highton I came a nice part . |
| 16 | In my first two terms at St. Albans , I came twenty-fourth and twenty-third , but in my third term I came eighteenth . |
| 17 | After the wedding I came to live in Baldersdale , at the next farm to Hannah . |
| 18 | I was allowed to go there on condition I came straight home again every afternoon to do the washing and ironing and to clean the house and cook the supper . ’ |
| 19 | All her joy drained away like water spilled on sand as instead of Penry Vaughan 's tall , broad-shouldered figure she came face to face with the woman who 'd once been his wife . |
| 20 | I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly . |
| 21 | The pure juice of Noah 's vine we came in search of has been rendered impure . |
| 22 | To try and generate some more interest in aviation we looked into starting a project that was relevant to the area and after a lot of research we came up with a Flying Flea . |
| 23 | The chapel was small , an altar stood at the further end from the entrance we came in by . |
| 24 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 25 | Towards nightfall they came upon a pair of small caves , which Miss Fergusson compared to the pressing of God 's thumb into the mountainside . |
| 26 | The script they came up with was trendy and repetitive , rather naive but tuned directly to the youth of the moment . |
| 27 | from which impasse he came . |
| 28 | For all his thinking he came to a sole conclusion . |
| 29 | small wheel , you know , with a white horse he came , you know on er granite cobbles horses hooves , er he went to the bottom along this circle to turn round as he came back every door were open and we and er heads out , they thought it was a fu , you know , horse |
| 30 | If this was the intention it came to nothing , for the title was abolished in 1554 . |