Example sentences of "[conj] came [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He called them Amurricanes , in a heavy stage accent that came over as an envious sneer .
2 It was easier for the man that came round with the Cooperative lorry to just take tokens
3 Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases .
4 How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ?
5 Er , the figures in paragraph five are shown there , but we had a recognition of that additional duty , and a variety of other minor changes which I wo n't go into this morning , that came through at the same time .
6 The County Council took into account a wide range of considerations , in including the the information that came through from the local plan authorities , in the preparation of their local plans over the past ten years or more .
7 Jazz is a form of music that came out of a social evolution in black history , and so is rap .
8 They all rave about Muddy , Charlie Patton and Son House — singers that came out of the same patch in Coahoma County — but they turn all reticent and confused when it comes to the act that 's outlived and outsold them all .
9 Scientists have studied how the cloud of electrons , protons and neutrons that came out of the big bang would have coalesced to make nuclei and atoms ; their studies correctly predict the proportion of various chemical elements in the universe .
10 Up to now all we 've got are light gases the gases that came out of the Big Bang .
11 It 's now forgotten that when Hugh Dalton began to publish his memoirs with large chunks of his diary in in the late fifties and early sixties , particularly the the high tide volume that came out about the Labour government of forty five to fifty one which was very venomous .
12 The smells that came down from the higher ground might tell him something .
13 And you the wee envelopes that came in with the black edging on them .
14 Theodora circled the house in the direction of the arrow and came round to the back door .
15 The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot .
16 Matsushita began work on cobalt-free magnets in 1968 and came up with a manganese-aluminium-carbon material in 1979 .
17 I felt these elementary slips should be corrected , and came up with a possible solution .
18 Roxburgh , however , decided there was no point playing games , and came up with a predictable yet interesting side .
19 He scrabbled in the bottom of the box and came up with a small piece of carved and polished wood .
20 The team took up the gauntlet thrown down by the Health and Safety Executive and came up with a thorough checklist for the city 's 7 homes .
21 They took their various allocated strains of Staphylococcus aureus or whatever , applied standard methods , and came up with a particular teichoic acid or teichoic acid-like polymer .
22 Here — ’ He rummaged in the pearl-studded evening bag and came up with a twenty pound note .
23 The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate .
24 The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate .
25 The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate .
26 As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) .
27 We checked the pH by an electronic meter and came up with the same reading .
28 After we got over the shock we asked around for other quotes and came up with an initial estimate of £1,000 plus parts , subject to what is found when the engine is taken out , from John Cutler Marine Engineers who were recommended by Sigma Yachts .
29 He repeated his question , and came up against the same smiling ignorance .
30 Rachaela did as she was told , and came out to the examining table , very white with something on it like a large paper towel .
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