Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] came [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To try and generate some more interest in aviation we looked into starting a project that was relevant to the area and after a lot of research we came up with a Flying Flea . |
| 2 | WHEN Alan Fennah opened his mail he came out with the classic One Foot In The Grave line : ‘ I do not believe it ! ’ |
| 3 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 4 | After a moment she came out on the landing and she was dressing . |
| 5 | She 'd like to be on hand the moment they came out of the dark room . |
| 6 | Well we got married in nineteen forty one and I lived first of all in Sussex where erm my mother was living because my husband went into the Air Force and he was erm away for five years , well we had a lot of bombing in the early part of the war in Sussex and my father eventually came here to Harlow thinking we were getting away from it and of course we came right into the V er what was it ? |
| 7 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 8 | On another occasion I came home with a pulled hamstring . |
| 9 | In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level . |
| 10 | At the top they came out into a kind of clearing . |
| 11 | While the uppers often irritatingly remain almost as new as they day they came out of the box , the outsole looks as though it 's been left behind on the concrete , which of course it has . |
| 12 | Each day he came twice to the banker 's house and sat in the sickroom , warm and better furnished now , and kept his lover company ; sometimes talking , sometimes in silence . |
| 13 | Molly remembered the day he came home from the war . |
| 14 | The ratings for the drama starring Sean Bean as Mucky Mellors and Joely Richardson as Lady C. have soared , electricity bosses report a surge in power when the nation tunes in and people who have viewed their video recorder with fear and suspicion since the day it came out of the polystyrene box have discovered the freeze frame feature overnight . |
| 15 | It kept promising it was going to explode , and then one morning I came out of the house it was just lying there like a dinosaur hulk . ’ |
| 16 | This is a game I came across in the United States and is for older children aged seven and upwards . |
| 17 | A passion born of the habit I came by as a girl at school . |
| 18 | The second critical comment I came across in the Scrapbook was George Steiner 's statement from the Sunday Times in 1967 . |
| 19 | She tracked Ana to her room , a room further along the balcony , and in her usual manner she came straight to the point . |
| 20 | This week she came in with the garment — very nicely knitted but with the sleeves ( in the stocking stitch ) too short . |
| 21 | Alan says his wife says of golfers there you are a big cup and lots of money … last week he came home with the cup but no money |
| 22 | When I crawled onto the shore I came out of the English stream onto sand . |
| 23 | In a temple courtyard they came unexpectedly upon a troupe of imperial singers and dancers rehearsing a performance ; garbed in dazzling costumes of gold , red , green and turquoise , the expressionless boys and girls were indistinguishable from one another in their close-fitting bonnets as they performed the mannered steps of a delicate oriental dance to the plaintive . |
| 24 | After months of experimentation he came up with a vanilla ice cream bar on a stick , bonded with cocoa butter to a coating of chocolate . |
| 25 | In turn he came quickly to the point : his venture needed capital and what monies he had were tied up in his house . |
| 26 | In part it came about as a reaction to the inordinate complexity of S-R theory but , I believe , it had much more to do with S-R theory 's failure to cope with real psychological problems like the performance of radar operators , and with the availability of machines , computers , with mind-like properties that made it respectable to think in mentalistic terms again . |
| 27 | I saw him take a look at the boat-house first , then , when I suppose he saw you were n't home , he went up towards the house , and after a bit he came back with a bag , you know , like Santa Claus , slung over his shoulder . |
| 28 | A letter I came across in the Houghton Library at Harvard bemoans to his father an incident in which , for some reason , he had offended a women clerk to whom he had consigned some typing . |
| 29 | After a long walk we came out between the dunes and were staring at the sea . |
| 30 | Last year they came back for a checkup and medics found their wheelchairs were ruined by the war torn terrain . |