Example sentences of "and came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad heard her and came down the stairs . |
| 2 | Recovering my composure , if not much dignity , I followed the bird through the trees and came on a female ( which lacks the long plumes and has a chestnut back and tail ) which appeared to be nest-building almost above our heads . |
| 3 | The words , both exclamation and prayer , were forced out of him as he reached the bend in the road and came on the village of Granard . |
| 4 | ‘ Your Grace , I and two others were some way behind , bringing up the spare horses , and came on the scene only in time to see Sir Edmund at grips , and the battle all but done . |
| 5 | And I took it out in the spring and put it in the garden and then it revived and came on nice . |
| 6 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 7 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 8 | The Indian woman was born in Kerala , Southern India , and came to this country when she was six . |
| 9 | Caradon was bought from publishers Reed International for £61m in 1985 and came to the stock market in June 1987 with an initial market value of £134m . |
| 10 | At length , Bunting recalled , ‘ the largest workman rose frowning and came to our table ; but what he said was : ‘ Is it no the great poet , Hugh MacDiarmid ? ’ |
| 11 | Neil Kinnock , who like Mr Foot is an MP for a south Wales constituency and came to the leadership from the left of the party , described his mentor yesterday as unique and irreplaceable : ‘ Michael is as fit and fiery as ever . |
| 12 | He thought and meditated ; filled them out by experience of pastoral care and by writing ; and came to such a unity that all his later life he had a coherence of outlook , in thought and devotion and ethic , which was an anchor to the Church of England in difficult days . |
| 13 | Eventually , it tired and came to the pan . |
| 14 | Wexford pushed aside the willows that hung like a pelmet and came to the rubbish pocket , where he knelt down . |
| 15 | Erika and Karl got out of the warmth of the car into a crystalline coldness , walked up an avenue lined with bare trees and came to an enclosed garden . |
| 16 | I looked at it afresh and came to the same conclusion . ’ |
| 17 | Another stipendiary magistrate , heard argument about abuse of the process and came to the opposite conclusion from Mr Bartle , namely that delay in Mr Cherry 's case did not constitute an abuse of the process . |
| 18 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 19 | Similarly , Mr Yeltsin , like Mr Gorbachev , was born into a peasant family during the calamitous 1930s and came to political maturity during the first days of Khrushchev , when hope began to dawn after Stalin 's long night . |
| 20 | Near the end of the book of Joshua a passing reference is made to a battle , which may or may not belong to the same account as chapter 2 : ‘ And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho , and the men of Jericho fought against you … ’ |
| 21 | A procession of blackclad dignitaries streamed down the road like a column of soldier ants and came to a halt on the bridge . |
| 22 | Cautiously , sweating , with fiery stabs in every inch , I wormed my right hand between my body and the earth , and came to what seemed like a rod between the two . |
| 23 | Slowly , trying to ration the pain into manageable portions , I slid my hand out again , and then after a while , hardly believing it , I bent my arm and felt round my back and came to the rod there also , and faced the grim certainty that someone had shot me not with a bullet but an arrow . |
| 24 | David Wright was born in South Africa in 1920 and came to England as a teenager . |
| 25 | Both entered politics early and came to the height of their power in their late 40s . |
| 26 | It was n't until the next day someone heard him shouting and came to his rescue . |
| 27 | ( Henry ) Wooden , his valet for seven years who on his marriage left his service and came to Henley where he worked at the Brewery for 30 years . |
| 28 | The harvest feast was usually a highpoint of village life , and came to be regarded as a ritual of social unity . |
| 29 | They yelled at each other until the car passed erratically between the electric gates of the elegant , much photographed Lewis home and came to a halt on the gravel before the porch . |
| 30 | He blinked , and came to himself with a start . |