Example sentences of "i came [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 2 | When I came round from the chloroform I was in bed . |
| 3 | ‘ When I came round after the operation I asked the doctors if they would let me have the screws . |
| 4 | I came up into the air gasping deeply , panting , aching lungs swelling , feeling a rush of suppressed terror , clinging onto the curtain in a shaky state . |
| 5 | ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’ |
| 6 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
| 7 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 8 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
| 9 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 10 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 11 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 12 | Eventually , after canvassing ideas from virtually everyone in the department , I came up with a design , using egg boxes and colanders which Blue Peter decided to use . |
| 13 | I came up with the idea of having a sale . |
| 14 | You also had to maintain things , so I came up with the figure of thirty-one . |
| 15 | Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap . |
| 16 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 17 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
| 18 | ‘ Childbirth ’ our local priest called it , but I did n't really understand what he was on about until several years later when I came up against the problem again . |
| 19 | Er you sent me on I 'm gon na go , and I came up before the receptionist . |
| 20 | I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class . |
| 21 | A passion born of the habit I came by as a girl at school . |
| 22 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 24 | ‘ I came in through the door . ’ |
| 25 | On Saturday 4 June , I came in from a morning 's canvassing in Sutton Coldfield to find an urgent message to call Conservative Central Office . |
| 26 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |
| 27 | I came in by the south door as usual and locked both it and the door in the grille after me . |
| 28 | After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat . |
| 29 | I came down for the fire , for it was cold in my room . |
| 30 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |