Example sentences of "[noun pl] came [adv] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One after another , the big , black waves came out of the darkness — waves ten , twenty metres high ! |
| 2 | ‘ Fans came out of the woodwork for those games . |
| 3 | Water companies came out of the study well , with the ten privatised companies all on the top 24 profit-makers ' list . |
| 4 | Some Australians came out of the shower room and began arguing with the merry sub-human guard : |
| 5 | ‘ I love Harvey , ’ and little noises came out of the sphere of hair as if a canary was eating a hearty meal of seeds . |
| 6 | Police and doctors came out of the building to help the passengers . |
| 7 | Dolores came out of the cottage with mugs of coffee for them . |
| 8 | All these creatures came out of the mud and |
| 9 | White flakes came out of the sky and Dad smiled , pointed and said , ‘ That 's snow ! ’ |
| 10 | When the Moderator and the other dignatories came out of the Assembly to cross the road , they found themselves flanked by a crowd of Free Presbyterians shouting anti-ecumenical slogans and waving placards . |
| 11 | Then two more men came out of the building . |
| 12 | Three men came out of the rear of the house . |
| 13 | Then the removal men came out of the house for the last time , wiping their brows on their once-white aprons , and then they helped down from the van a little old lady . |
| 14 | Two men came out of the house . |
| 15 | ‘ Ignore the barrage balloon , ’ he joked , flattening himself exaggeratedly against the wall as the actors came out of the pass door and went up to their rooms . |
| 16 | As his unit of 25 men tried to reinforce a company under assault by a tank , a dozen soldiers came out of the tree line near the suburbs on the western edge of Sarajevo . |
| 17 | When reports came in of the spread of an eye disease in Cuba that was caused by malnutrition , they rushed to send packets of vitamins . |
| 18 | Reports came in of the landing of Iraqi military personnel on the uninhabited Kuwaiti island of Bubiyan . |
| 19 | At different times during the war , reports came in of the need for jet fuel . |
| 20 | Frau Trauffer and her daughters came out of the kitchen wiping their hands on their aprons . |