Example sentences of "a [noun] came [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inspector from the education department who could be such a trial came to the opening ceremony . |
| 2 | It was quite a different situation when a grandchild came into the grandparent 's home through the death or desertion of one or both parents . |
| 3 | The shape of a vardo loomed in the twilight and the whinny of a horse came from the trees . |
| 4 | The sound of a carriage came beyond the window . |
| 5 | I waited until a break came in the pain , and then pinned a healthy smile on my face and told her I felt perfectly well . |
| 6 | Eventually a reply came from the Islands ' Director of Administration and Legal Services , Rowan McCallum . |
| 7 | She 's only just gone down , after givin' me her life story and what 'appened at her granddad 's funeral when a wheel came off the 'earse . |
| 8 | A tractor and trailer was being driven across the bridge , when a wheel came off the tractor and it veered through the stone parapet . |
| 9 | Suppose a car came over the hill , and I ran out , and whoever was in it got out — suppose he was crazy ? |
| 10 | She felt her heart quicken as a car came up the drive and stopped in front of her . |
| 11 | Just then , a car came round the corner and flattened the poor moggy . |
| 12 | And one day a lady came from the clinic . |
| 13 | ‘ Just before you arrived a bloke came on the phone and said he had read my article this morning . |
| 14 | But as he jumped , a girl came to the door and shot him . |
| 15 | But one day they were betrayed ; a mob came in the night and burned the house down . |
| 16 | At nearly twelve o'clock , a guard came into the office . |
| 17 | It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family , but , ’ the corpse sighed , or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it , ‘ it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two . |
| 18 | Such a moment came for the Small-holder , one of our regular openers . |
| 19 | But not a sound came from the cottage , and Virginia grew bold enough to glance across at it . |
| 20 | A turning-point came in the case of Ridge v. Baldwin in which it was held that the distinction between administrative and judicial functions was of no relevance to deciding whether a decision-maker ought to comply with the rules of natural justice or to the availability of judicial review remedies . |
| 21 | Sometimes , but not too often , there was the sound of a window being broken , whereupon a general speedy exodus took place , with the consequent panic whenever a knock came at the street door during the next few days . |
| 22 | She began to unpack , trying to puzzle things out , and when a knock came on the door she opened it without thinking , her mind still elsewhere . |
| 23 | She was sitting in a daze on the edge of the bed when a head came round the partition , saying , ‘ You had better put a move on else you 'll get scalped . ’ |
| 24 | When the railway and the two roads were blocked with drifts , and not a train or a letter or a newspaper came to the town for a week . |
| 25 | She waited a long time in a small office , but after an hour a policeman came into the room . |
| 26 | In a survey carried out earlier this year for DTP Desktop Publishing magazine , a sister title to MacUser , something over half of the bureau had their roots in traditional typesetting while around a quarter came from the printing side of the business . |
| 27 | A woman came into the room . |
| 28 | A woman came to the door who I , whom I recognized as , 's mother . |
| 29 | Do you know what if we come up tonight cos erm a woman came to the door , a woman came to the door this afternoon and she 's given us a Walkman with a microphone on it and we 've to tape all the conversations with it |
| 30 | Do you know what if we come up tonight cos erm a woman came to the door , a woman came to the door this afternoon and she 's given us a Walkman with a microphone on it and we 've to tape all the conversations with it |