Example sentences of "[noun prp] came [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Therese came on the entire evening lifted into top gear . |
| 2 | It 's funny er when Richard came in the other day and said he 'd been he 'd been to the dentist and you said oh well they have n't been in touch with us yet . |
| 3 | The cities in Ancona came under the imperial governor . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's a chap called Summers came in the other day . |
| 5 | Make-up could work wonders , though , and she was just putting the finishing touches to her lipstick when Travis came through the connecting door . |
| 6 | Sarah came through the first week of marriage with few hopes of real happiness , though she was pleased enough with her elevated circumstances . |
| 7 | Leonora Buckmaster came to the front doorway as the Daimler pulled up . |
| 8 | Jane Melvin came to the New Inn at Pembridge in Herefordshire in 1984 , and turned it into one of the most popular country pubs in the county . |
| 9 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
| 10 | His most active period in the Commons came during the three Exclusion Parliaments : he served on no fewer than fifty-two committees , involving a wide range of issues . |
| 11 | Willis came to the front door dressed only in a pair of trousers . |
| 12 | Carrie came into the back room to take Rachel up for her afternoon nap and smiled at Annie as the young woman was buttoning up her coat . |
| 13 | ‘ The Rosenblooms came from the opposite end of Eastern Europe . |
| 14 | ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’ |
| 15 | The Lada came past the Historical Museum in the centre of Red Square and turned right , just before the Lenin Mausoleum , into the Nikolskaya Vorota entrance . |
| 16 | At that precise moment , Delaney came to the same conclusion as Nell . |
| 17 | Much of the evidence , indeed , suggests that a substantial section of support for the WCTU came from the working class , and that it was not homogeneously white , Anglo-Saxon , Protestant , old middle class as Gusfield claims . |
| 18 | One afternoon , when Hindley had gone into town , Heathcliff came into the main room after lunch . |
| 19 | Ghandi came at the right time , you know . |
| 20 | As he tapped a cigarette on its box preparatory to departing , the front door — always on the latch — was opened and Judith Cohen came into the small kitchen . |
| 21 | That common-sense approach to Brent came from the hon. Member for Brent , East ( Mr. Livingstone ) who , for those who may not remember , was the former leader of the Greater London council . |
| 22 | The Spirit of God came upon the Christian community in order to unite them in a fellowship which could not be paralleled in any other group . |
| 23 | It was in 1929 , aged about 30 , that Winterbotham came to the momentous realisation , worthy of Bertie Wooster , that ‘ I should have to get a job ’ . |
| 24 | The turning point for Hunt came in the last race of the first half of the season when Lauda retired from the French Grand Prix with a rear mechanical fault and Hunt took full advantage by winning . |
| 25 | I do n't think it 's that big and Dick came over the other day and erm he wait |
| 26 | Albert Spanswick came from the old school of trade union leaders and I found him a more persuasive advocate for health service workers than Rodney Bickerstaffe . |
| 27 | One actress Lizzie Bancroft came to the final rehearsal with a two week old baby . |
| 28 | Darwin and Wallace came to the same conclusion about archipelago birds . |
| 29 | Linda Townley , formerly Linda Joyce a lady 's maid to Princess Anne came to the Labour party conference in Blackpool to make a desperate plea on behalf of those unfairly attacked in the press , |
| 30 | Beales had not taken any notice of other customers until a man he recognized as MacQuillan came to the next table . |