Example sentences of "[pron] came [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But 180 years ago in America someone came up with the idea of a Temperance Society . |
2 | It 's much like a DYPP , and should really have been called DXPP , but someone came up with the name Tech-Tech first ( on the other hand , just try to pronounce DXPP ! ) . |
3 | ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said . |
4 | The door opened , and someone came in from the night . |
5 | Whilst I was there , someone came out of the gatehouse and started walking towards me . |
6 | He turned on her now , but was almost pushed aside as someone came out of the shop . |
7 | Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them . |
8 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
9 | When I came round from the chloroform I was in bed . |
10 | ‘ When I came round after the operation I asked the doctors if they would let me have the screws . |
11 | I came up into the air gasping deeply , panting , aching lungs swelling , feeling a rush of suppressed terror , clinging onto the curtain in a shaky state . |
12 | ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’ |
13 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
14 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
15 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
16 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
17 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
18 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
19 | Eventually , after canvassing ideas from virtually everyone in the department , I came up with a design , using egg boxes and colanders which Blue Peter decided to use . |
20 | I came up with the idea of having a sale . |
21 | You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one . |
22 | I came up on the pools ! |
23 | Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap . |
24 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
25 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
26 | ‘ Childbirth ’ our local priest called it , but I did n't really understand what he was on about until several years later when I came up against the problem again . |
27 | Er you sent me on I 'm gon na go , and I came up before the receptionist . |
28 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
29 | I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class . |
30 | I came along with the Maxteds . |