Example sentences of "we came [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 2 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 3 | Cos , they sold out the , that 's all now and I think came from Yarmouth , they used , they used to have a big place at Yarmouth and we came through the other week and er I see their sheds are nearly all empty now , there . |
| 4 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
| 5 | Eventually we came to the Old Mill area where there were no railings at the waterside , making the mill pond quite a frightening place for small children . |
| 6 | But when we came to the Old Town , the Marshal and Sapt moved nearer to my horse , and I could see that they were afraid for me . |
| 7 | When we came to the German trenches there was nothing to see . |
| 8 | We look like we came to the wrong party — like we brought our adopted son to his friend 's birthday , and called at the wrong address . |
| 9 | As we came into the front hall I heard Kevin yelling up the stairs , ‘ Stop the hammering ! |
| 10 | You know when we came in the other day , you came to see the sofa ? |
| 11 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |