Example sentences of "i come [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came here under a lot of pressure , knowing I had to succeed , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I came here for the history . |
| 3 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 4 | I came here at the instigation of your letter , believing myself to have secured a position . |
| 5 | I came here with a companion in 1954 , determined to conquer this graceful peak and thus set the seal on my mountaineering achievements but , to our shame , we shirked the last thirty yards to the summit cairn in growing apprehension of an instant demise . |
| 6 | I mean , I came here with a plan . |
| 7 | I came here as a company stage manager from Oxford playhouse company . |
| 8 | But no one 's touched that room to my knowledge , since I came here as a bride in 1929 . |
| 9 | ‘ I came here as a bride , ’ said my mother , and Lili giggled . |
| 10 | She said that if I came here to the island and said I was sorry you 'd welcome me with open arms . ’ |
| 11 | I came away with the impression that , long-term , the Koi hobby has nothing to fear as long as people like Ray stay in business . |
| 12 | I came away with the feeling that work such as Hodgson 's , which begins to transform the rough material of personal experience and emotion into a universal , achieves an enduring self-sufficiency which work that is essentially referential can not . |
| 13 | I came away from the Oxford seminar with a clear idea in my mind about what I should do to stimulate discussion on this subject in Wales . |
| 14 | ‘ I was pretty saddened when I came away from the doctors . |
| 15 | In the end I went along and scraped a pass , largely to avoid the horrendous scenes with my parents that would ensue if I came away from the temple of learning empty-handed . |
| 16 | " What 's the matter , James ? " he asked as I came away from the phone . |
| 17 | I came away from the workshop with ideas for introducing total quality into education , plus curiosity about the practicality of BS 5750 procedures in a school . |
| 18 | Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them . |
| 19 | And I came right off the wave . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When I came round from the chloroform I was in bed . |
| 22 | ‘ When I came round after the operation I asked the doctors if they would let me have the screws . |
| 23 | It was with this in mind that I came joyously across the story of Stephen Eastham this week . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’ |
| 26 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 30 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |