Example sentences of "and came [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 2 | He duelled briefly with the Triplane , lost it , and came round in a wide , searching turn . |
| 3 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 4 | There were some who drove straight on , but most wound down their windows or allowed the clowns on their coaches , had a friendly word and came up with a contribution . |
| 5 | Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away . |
| 6 | Oxford kept their cool though and came up with a winner 5 minutes from time . |
| 7 | ‘ I studied the problem and came up with a blueprint . |
| 8 | The level of the wine dropped rapidly , and after the meal Carson scrambled around at the bottom of a cupboard and came up with a bottle of port . |
| 9 | As he continued to watch her she delved in her brain and came up with a substitute . |
| 10 | There are dozens of euphemisms for masturbation , but in the course of her research into the subject Karen Shanor interviewed several hundred sexually active American men and came up with a list of the top ten most common masturbatory fantasies among men : |
| 11 | We got a good response and came up with a group of suspects . |
| 12 | I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government . |
| 13 | She delved into the bag and came up with a packet of pastilles which she began to suck , filling the car with a sickly sweet smell . |
| 14 | I was quite interested in erm a study done by a woman , Mary Bolton , erm the actual work that was done and the sexual division of labour within the home , and in fact she looked at some of the previous studies that had been done and came up with a result that actually erm when men did some it was regarded as a lot , of housework , erm and that when you actually went back to count the number of hours and the number of minutes , you discover that men were doing very , very little . |
| 15 | A local estate agent carried out his own survey of the property and came up with a figure only about a fifth of the official valuation . |
| 16 | The initial research provided nothing , but eventually I discovered the scientific name and came up with a photograph of Synbranchus marmoratus , also known as the Marbled Swamp Eel . |
| 17 | Forster searched in a pouch and came up with a glucose sweet . |
| 18 | [ The recommendations were not well received , and came up against a shortage of appropriately qualified teachers and the determination on the part of the grammar and public schools to defend the Crowther notion of sixth form study in depth . ] |
| 19 | As soon as we arrived , the bass player , Paul ‘ Bassman ’ Riley , took one look at us and came over with a proposition . |
| 20 | The sergeant noticed her movement , and came over with a canteen of water , which he offered wordlessly , but with a kind look . |
| 21 | At once regretting that she had let herself become riled , she delved into her bag and came out with a bar of soap . |
| 22 | ’ Franks opened a drawer of his desk and came out with a polythene bag . |
| 23 | Mucking about on the moor like kids will , one of 'em went into the shed and came out with a bundle , all nicely tied up . |
| 24 | The father dashed round his vehicle and came out with a camera . |
| 25 | Sidney reached in his pocket and came out with a tobacco pouch . |
| 26 | He fumbled in his jacket pocket and came out with a tobacco pouch and a pipe and offered the pouch to Wycliffe . |
| 27 | It is a new legal framework for child care and came about as a result of lessons learnt from Lord enquiry into child abuse in Cleveland in 1987 . |
| 28 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 29 | The prince scraped up the money they had set aside to repair the roof again and Anna went off to India with some English acquaintances and stayed with the viceroy and came back with a ruby . |
| 30 | He went into the small scullery and came back with a pomander , a ball of cloth stuffed with cloves and herbs . |