Example sentences of "and [pers pn] came " in BNC.

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1 Well that was where the the Where Argyll and them came and they burnt it down .
2 They were being pulled steadily , Felipe digging his feet into the side of the cliff , and as they came to the top he eased Maggie over the edge and them came up himself .
3 then you , you and me came back on , but it 's finished and it has n't been replaced , it 's are you out of breath
4 ‘ When Conroy and I came in you were not at your post . ’
5 ‘ The Faskally boatman brought me across the foot of the loch and I came straight over the hill to the Brig of Grandtully . ’
6 I left Aisha 's prison in the following way : one day a woman from the same village as Aisha and I came to pick up her sewing machine .
7 The slope eased , and I came over what had seemed from below like a ridge , but in fact was merely the folding of ice from a long saddle that ran like a narrow valley between west and east summits .
8 When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men .
9 One day I was in the library and I came across this book .
10 One is secret and compartmented , and another is sort of boyish and boastful , and it would be in character for him to say , I wo n't be here tomorrow , I will be down south , and then for him to say , Yes , it was a quick trip and I flew all night and I came back and I have n't slept for 48 hours , always complaining about how busy he was and how terribly overworked .
11 And if I visited my grandfather I went upstairs to see him in his rooms and I came downstairs to visit my grandmother . ’
12 After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment .
13 She 'd bought some fancy underwear and was showing it to Franca and I came in and made some remarks .
14 It was my first 6-day race and I came here to enjoy it with no plan or target , so I 'm very happy to have had such a successful run . ’
15 That night , at dinner , David and I came clean , and told our friends about singing to fish .
16 And I came right off the wave . ’
17 The day was the easiest since Reggane and I came to camp after twenty miles feeling strong , with Aulef only two hours away .
18 My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees .
19 Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights .
20 As the crisis deepened and I came into the depression and withdrawal stages , I knew intellectually that God was still my friend , even though I did not feel it emotionally . ’
21 We lined up in the final and I came off the bend well in the lead .
22 We all had to warm up again later and I did n't have the necessary background for that ; when we finally ran , Buster was the winner , Drew second and I came in third .
23 As it turned out , Donovan Reid won and I came second , missing the third individual place but feeling that I was in with a chance of making the relay team .
24 When I reviewed my performance I thought , well , it was my first major World Championship and I came fourth .
25 Then , in a blink , the pictures of Mum and Mrs Dinwiddie and the sea of mud vanished , and I came out of that station floating six inches above the ground .
26 ‘ And then it died and I came home . ’
27 I realized I was lost when the sky suddenly lightened and I came out into a broad clearing .
28 So that accelerated my own ideas and I came over to England with that in mind .
29 John 's manner was off-putting to the faint-hearted , but as I slowly got to know him , realised his lack of physical and social grace covered an ultra-soft centre , and I came to love the man .
30 ‘ Through my early years , I always did a lot of running and I came to the conclusion that that was the reason for my injuries .
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