Example sentences of "[conj] we came [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The selection committee is multi-racial and we came with the 30 best players we could pick . |
| 3 | Gradually the port wing tip fell on the ground and we came to the gentlest of stops some 70/80 yards from the engineering wing perimeter . |
| 4 | Cos , they sold out the , that 's all now and I think came from Yarmouth , they used , they used to have a big place at Yarmouth and we came through the other week and er I see their sheds are nearly all empty now , there . |
| 5 | We look like we came to the wrong party — like we brought our adopted son to his friend 's birthday , and called at the wrong address . |
| 6 | But when we came into the straight again he was always beside me , running , panting , straining to get ahead just as I was . |
| 7 | Someone whistled them out when we came to the narrowest place , bows strung and shafts fitted , shouting to us to halt . |
| 8 | But when we came to the Old Town , the Marshal and Sapt moved nearer to my horse , and I could see that they were afraid for me . |
| 9 | When we came to the German trenches there was nothing to see . |
| 10 | When we came to the third hole I thought we were going to need some of that cushion . |
| 11 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 12 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 13 | Everything seemed to be plain sailing now as we came to the 17th . |
| 14 | ‘ As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’ |
| 15 | As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’ |
| 16 | As we came into the front hall I heard Kevin yelling up the stairs , ‘ Stop the hammering ! |
| 17 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |