Example sentences of "[noun pl] came [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 2 | One after another , the big , black waves came out of the darkness — waves ten , twenty metres high ! |
| 3 | ‘ Fans came out of the woodwork for those games . |
| 4 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |
| 5 | Half a million acres came newly under the plough between 1761 and 1792 , one million more during the Napoleonic Wars . |
| 6 | The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink . |
| 7 | Völkisch opinion on these subjects came increasingly to the fore with simplistic solutions that fitted in well with the Junker status quo . |
| 8 | Then one of the travelling craftsmen came out from the town and lined the cart , trap or wagon we happened to be making : that means he painted the finishing touches , the lines on the wheels and the panels . |
| 9 | The calls came not from the opposition RPR-UDF coalitions , but from separatist groups . |
| 10 | Phone calls came continually from the hareem in Europe and from the Sheikh , but the family majlis was like an empty cup waiting to be filled . |
| 11 | They pushed for the statement to be brought forward to clear the air before their sons came home for the Christmas holidays at the weekend , palace sources claimed . |
| 12 | After initial experiments with raised beds , ramps and customised tools some lateral thinkers from both groups came up with the idea of a wheelchair with a seat which could be lowered to the plants at ground level . |
| 13 | Fierce repression failed to eliminate the growing strength of the Social Democrats , and in 1887 , after decades of faction fighting , the groups came together at the Hainfeld Congress to form a single multinational party under the foremost Social Democrat , Victor Adler . |
| 14 | Many a rainy day would he bring dreariness to an end , as his musical talents came out to the surface . |
| 15 | Clapping their wings the gulls came back from the sea , |
| 16 | Water companies came out of the study well , with the ten privatised companies all on the top 24 profit-makers ' list . |
| 17 | Some Australians came out of the shower room and began arguing with the merry sub-human guard : |
| 18 | ‘ I love Harvey , ’ and little noises came out of the sphere of hair as if a canary was eating a hearty meal of seeds . |
| 19 | His appetite whetted by this auction , he was a natural target for Sotheby 's when Irises came on to the market . |
| 20 | The goal though , was against the run of play and sure enough , Rovers came back at the start of the second half with an equaliser from Kenny Irons . |
| 21 | When the Campaign for Real Ale embarked in the early 1970s on its crusade to preserve and promote our disappearing beer heritage , three watchwords came quickly to the fore ; choice , quality and tradition . |
| 22 | The keys came back through the post , without even a thank-you note . |
| 23 | The visitors came back into the game with two penalty goals by Graves and could have turned ends 9–9 had he been successful with his third penalty goal on half-time . |
| 24 | There was a whiffle from Hector , and next instant the gentleman 's footsteps came swiftly to the door and Theda moved quickly away . |
| 25 | Burun 's feet came down off the sill . |
| 26 | Whole farms and landed estates at the edge of urban areas came on to the market ; suburban land prices therefore were very low . |
| 27 | Most of the provisions of the Housing Act 1988 relating to private sector renting apply equally to housing associations , but the most important change relating to housing associations came not in the Act but by ministerial decision . |
| 28 | Shoes came off in the water . |
| 29 | A further 1,800 troops came ashore during the day , and an exchange of fire was reported between US Marines and gunmen at Mogadishu port . |
| 30 | Strangely , the tracks came directly from the lough ; there seemed to be no tracks going into the lough . |