Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] came [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
2 | Three miles below the village they came upon the first of the hallowed plantations of Father Noah . |
3 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
4 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
5 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
6 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
7 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
8 | By the time they came to the 16th Chris was flagging , after pulling the heavy trolley for fifteen holes through the wind and rain . |