Example sentences of "and [noun pl] came [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Artists and craftsmen came to the city , not only from northern France and Flanders , but also from England .
2 The machinery and plates came to the Museum from Enfield , North London .
3 Wandering players performed in the yard and customers came onto the gallery to watch them .
4 The market for pilchards declined when foreign tinned sardines and pilchards came to the shops .
5 Important cases concerning metropolitans and bishops came before the pope and justice was administered by him in person .
6 In a KLM Airbus circling over Switzerland and Germany at 41,000 feet bidders enjoyed caviar and champagne with 40 modern Russian paintings and 40 designs by Dutch jewellers and silversmiths came under the hammer .
7 At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come .
8 When Charles James Fox lost £200,000 at the gaming tables as a young man , his father and others came to the rescue .
9 Undoubtedly however the days of wine and roses came in the season of 1990–91 when Pat was riding for Noel Furlong and Andy Geraghty .
10 The boys never went to the pond again but did hear reports from other anglers that screams and shouts came from the ditch the other side of the old trackbed , also the eerie , noisy sound of a motorcycle being ridden flat out towards the railway line .
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