Example sentences of "came [prep] the big " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spray-painting on the wall came with the big double M in. ‘ 87 — Meltdown in the Market , which started on Wall Street — but some of the bigger houses and the banks were already letting people go . ’ |
| 2 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 3 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 4 | Of the 17 trainees who won prizes or a place in the order of merit in November 's PE1s , all but three came from the Big Six , and the others came from BDO Binder Hamlyn and Stoy Hayward . |
| 5 | Apart from the lamps that gave a yellow glow to the leaves , the only light came from the big windows of the Communist club which was packed on both floors , its discotheque going full swing . |
| 6 | The only light came from the big fire . |
| 7 | They came from the big houses down the loch or over the pass towards Loch Lomond , or the castle at Inverary , from miles and miles , little girls in furred and caped coats and dresses gathered into heavy bows behind the cascades of ringlets . |
| 8 | Sure , there were specialist writers on individual sports who were of unimpeachable quality , but when it came to the Big Event , or the Big Interview , McIlvanney was the one whom we read with both pleasure and despair — emotions generated by the pride at being in the same trade as the main , and by the realization of his supremacy . |
| 9 | We felt sure she 'd be preyed on when she came to the big city . ’ |