Example sentences of "[adv] came [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The redundancies apparently came as a complete surprise to USL staff who were assured before Christmas that no jobs would be lost through the Novell deal . |
| 2 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 3 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 4 | And the , the water to bathe in came from the local river and er it was very very sandy and it just looked like mud that you were having to get in and do your bath . |
| 5 | Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again . |
| 6 | The original defections of Burgess and Maclean in 1951 naturally came as a great shock to the British establishment and were embarrassing because of the inept way MI5 handled the matter . |
| 7 | They left the marketplace for a maze of streets and eventually came to a large stone two-storeyed house with a timbered roof , its exquisite carved eaves jutting out over a small courtyard beneath . |
| 8 | There was a continual potential for conflict between the two cultures , which eventually came to a dramatic crisis in the San Antonio area . |
| 9 | He followed the widest of the paths northwards and eventually came to a deserted airfield . |
| 10 | We drove for miles through dense jungle and eventually came to a big pool which was maybe 150 metres square and 30 metres deep . |
| 11 | The labour camps , temperatures of 50 degrees below zero , a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak , barren permafrost , where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing . |
| 12 | Puzzled by the incident , she went on , but less than a dozen paces further on came to a sharp stop . |
| 13 | Some of the original brigadistas , the young literacy teachers , who mostly came from the urban areas , also continued to work in adult education , and others became teachers in the formal school system . |
| 14 | The metopes presumably came from an earlier monument of the same city , not apparently a treasury but an open colonnade , perhaps a baldacchino to shelter but not conceal some large offering . |
| 15 | The sound of a typewriter rattling away came from the little office and Gerald said : ‘ Gina — catching up on the correspondence . |
| 16 | As Ian Brown , of Lee Moor Farm in Northumberland , noted : ‘ A fact that saddened me lately came from a recent survey which suggested that the average family business — not just farms but all family businesses — lasts only 25 years , which I guess is only a generation . |
| 17 | The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train began to slow down and soon came to a smooth stop . |
| 18 | We soon came to the same decision , which was that having promised the boys we would help them , we could n't now let them down . |
| 19 | All this soon came to an abrupt end . |
| 20 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 21 | But the inspiration finally came in an unlikely form . |
| 22 | The defendants argued that : ( a ) The proviso quoted above came within the first test enunciated by Lord Reid in the Esso case ( see p 7 above ) ie that it did not deprive the plaintiff of any freedom which he would otherwise have had ; accordingly that it did not operate as a restraint of trade and therefore that it was effective on the admitted facts to terminate the plaintiff 's entitlement to commission . |
| 23 | Allen cast around and within a few yards further came upon a man-made path , narrow and winding , but in frequent use . |
| 24 | Now an acting sergeant , he had a platoon of forty men to prepare for battle , all of whom still came under the overall command of Captain Trentham , who had n't been seen since the day Tommy had been released . |
| 25 | And they still came to the famous dinners at his house , where the food , and the music , and the conversation were the best in London . |
| 26 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 27 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 28 | They were hollowed-out places , but always came to a dead end . ’ |
| 29 | Yet never did we instigate a fracas ; provocation always came from the other fellows , for various reasons ; maybe they did n't like Jews , or as often happened , they simply threw a challenge in order to test our ability to rule the roost . |
| 30 | Australians were still the butt of English condescension but he clearly came from a different mould from his fellow Australian Barry Humphries ' Private Eye creation , Barry McKenzie . |