Example sentences of "came [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happened next was a classic example of foolhardy daring which very nearly came badly unstuck . |
| 2 | ‘ It was when the friend of the family , Donald Templeton , the trusted and valued doctor who attended both Farr and his wife , came to call that the plans of the man who came to be known as the Wimbledon poisoner came badly unstuck . |
| 3 | Er it spoilt it a bit when that guy in the glasses came on half way through . |
| 4 | Outside the night came thankfully cold , a smell of external houses and open street . |
| 5 | Only two or three a day and they came dead slow round the bend in case there were sheep on the track . |
| 6 | It seems it 's one of those things that came right first time and improvement is either impossible or unnecessary . |
| 7 | She watched it for a while until the ball came rather close . |
| 8 | On the Wednesday matinee , when the house was minimal and so was the cast 's concentration , Charles came rather unstuck with his deaf-aid . |
| 9 | This came somewhat late to the RUC because of the added security risks its members run by admitting outsiders , and because police authorities in divided societies like Northern Ireland have to be more sensitive about public perceptions of the police and therefore more conscious of the risks they run through research . |
| 10 | ‘ We came somewhat late to Aberdeen , ’ wrote Johnson , ‘ and found the inn so full , that we had some difficulty in obtaining admission , till Mr Boswell made himself known . |
| 11 | But after the first year , everyone who came below twentieth in the class was put down to the B stream . |
| 12 | Donald came down two hours ago , and would you believe it , Bisset will not come to marry them . ’ |
| 13 | The sledges came down first and were loaded with tents , dog food and our kit . |
| 14 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |
| 15 | The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed . |
| 16 | But when I got back to work the people that was in the observation post on the factory , they saw this aircraft , it came down low over the King George 's playing fields and they could see the markings on it and they 'd sounded the alarm but but course the aircraft went straight over . |
| 17 | Now this other girl came down one Saturday morning and we had a letter to say that I 'd passed and I said well , so have I . |
| 18 | Now er her husband came down one day and I said to him , what 's your name , and he said Mr |
| 19 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 20 | The switch worked : on the faces of both of them came down that twilight of solemnity , a most vulnerable condition , he had found , if rightly played upon . |
| 21 | The Thai airbus came down last Friday 14 miles north of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu . |
| 22 | Mm yes , erm since the home office secretary 's initiative it 's progressing quite well , with interest from certainly Bassett , Newark Stanton on the Wolds Tollerton and some other of the rural Coldfield areas were interested in going forward , Bassett looked very very interested , we went to a meeting last night , eighteen parish councils were represented , er Beckingham is going to be the first one , they 've got a special that lives there who 's gon na take up the work , Superintendent came down last night to do a circular of em a questionnaire around the village and parish to get find out what people want , and then go and see what the specials able to provide and meet the two together and get some sort of contractive agreement , he 'll work from the police house there , he 'll have access to the car , when it 's not being used by the rural officer , also his radio . |
| 23 | Well Terry came down last night . |
| 24 | The little book went up in the air and came down shut . |
| 25 | Which floor would the elevator ( or lift ) stop at , if it started from street level , went up 4 floors , came down 3 floors , then went up 2 floors again ? |
| 26 | Which floor would the elevator ( or lift ) stop at , if it started from street level , went up 4 floors , came down 3 floors , then went up 2 floors again ? |
| 27 | He particularly liked this stretch ; nothing but the odd tractor and the horses ever came down this embankment , and the birds were unworried by his presence . |
| 28 | And this this we see , it 's er quite interesting , this you notice this bit here is not plastered , and this has not got these dimples , so we think that what actually happened is when they first did this the the the the this bit of the window was blocked up with wood or wattle and daub or something like that , and so it was a a a and then when then when the vestry came down this these stones were put in here to block it up again . |
| 29 | Tired , too : she lay awake at night , thinking , and came down several mornings so pale that Auntie Lou wanted to go to the chemist and buy her a tonic . |
| 30 | It was he who came along accidental like , and saved the child from drowning that morning . ’ |