Example sentences of "[adv] came [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , obviously I 'm not going to talk about profits from the T V division just now , because Thames only came in at the half year , and we 're not including any profits from B Sky B in the half year , but it 's likely that we 'll take some de-loan stock interest in at the year end . |
| 2 | The kitten lived to be nine , so came out of the whole business best , I suppose . |
| 3 | For a period of the late 16th century it appears to have come into the possession of the Earls of Leicester but eventually came back into the full possession of Trinity College , which remained lord of the manor until quite recent times . |
| 4 | This duly came about with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 ( EPA ) . |
| 5 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
| 6 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 7 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
| 8 | People and cars always came in through the big double gates . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
| 10 | But Tandri now came up with the bright idea of charging an exorbitant additional fee for every island we needed to call at en route . |
| 11 | DEC surprisingly came out with the stronger , if more bewildering statement that it ‘ will be working with USL and their technology partners to combine Digital 's Alpha technology with Unix SVR4 ’ — seemingly contradicting its position of the day before ( see page five ) . |
| 12 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
| 13 | Last time round they went to south east Asia , trekked in Nepal as far as the Everest base camp , saw Thailand and China then came back on the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 14 | At a press conference in Phoenix , Balestre initially hinted at a conciliatory line in the dispute between CART and FISA , but then came out with the stern suspension threat , which also encompassed Indycar engine makers Cosworth and Ilmor . |
| 15 | He paused , then came out with the inevitable suggestion that she found so irritating . |
| 16 | Within seconds he had been substituted and within minutes a goal almost came about at the other end . |
| 17 | Then , as some car in the street outside her hotel coughed and choked and backfired , Fabia abruptly came out of the long reverie she had fallen into , and back to the present , to realise that it was Monday morning — did she think she was going to sit there in bed all day ? |