Example sentences of "came [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their work points the way to a revision of plate tectonic theory and ideas about mountain building The USGS geologists , Mark Blake , David Howell and David Jones , have identified six distinct ‘ episodes ’ gradually creating present-day California Chunks of land came crashing onto the western side of the continent and spread out before fixing themselves to the existing coastline . |
| 2 | Although all this was entertainingly unpleasant , in Bira the most genuine threat to our lives came disguised in the quietest way , when we broke the cardinal rule of touching an unidentified creature . |
| 3 | She said to Rourke , ‘ You wanted to know if I 'd lent out keys to anyone — the telephone engineer , you said , and the man who came to see to the new extension around the back . ’ |
| 4 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
| 5 | He came to stoop over the trussed man , tested his bonds with a fierce and agonising tug . |
| 6 | And I did n't tell him that he came banging on the bloody door and all that . |
| 7 | Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road . |
| 8 | The Biblical Commission responded with a letter which came to serve as the first part of an encyclical , Divino Afflante Spiritu , published by Pius XII on 30 September 1943 . |
| 9 | Before any more could be said , Stephen came hurrying into the cobbled yard , hand outstretched , his face beaming with pleasure . |
| 10 | the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York |
| 11 | One evening Leopold Zborowski , a Polish poet , came to look at the modern paintings exhibited and was immediately taken by Modigliani 's remarkable talent . |
| 12 | He noted given unto a Newlands man who came to look at the supposed Wad Mine at Conistone 5s . " |
| 13 | As the light failed , it came to look like the mysterious seas on the moon . |
| 14 | Bradman and the umpire disagreed and Cec came to play in the Central Lancashire League where he became a legend for his fiery bowling , lusty hitting and astonishing turns of phrase . |
| 15 | The apparent ineffectiveness of naval forces , particularly when contrasted with the vital role which they came to play in the sixteenth century , may have turned students against the subject . |
| 16 | Air lifts were now out of the question , but trains were still a practical proposition — as Chadwick discovered when he came to deal with the Nazi official in charge of emigration . |
| 17 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 18 | They came marching up the rough track . |
| 19 | She came crawling across the pitch-black floor , the scuff of her knees completely muffled by the clatter of raindrops . |
| 20 | The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open . |
| 21 | His eyes came to rest on the tear-stained face of Mrs Bennett , whose baby had so recently died , and he suffered a pang of pity for her . |
| 22 | Their voices faded into the background as Isabel 's eyes came to rest on the third horse . |
| 23 | And as the last shots were being fired , the Syrian tank came to rest outside the very door of the building which housed Lebanon 's ‘ democratic ’ parliament . |
| 24 | Then he kicked and came to rest against the far wall . |
| 25 | With some telepathy at work , his questing glance came to rest in the exact square of window in which her face appeared . |
| 26 | it came to rest in the soft ground 100 yards on . |
| 27 | when you came down at dinner time , when you came charging into the common room . |
| 28 | In the morning a little aeroplane came buzzing across the blue window-pane of sky and alighted on the sugary beach . |
| 29 | So Spurs getting the lead they so dearly wanted after all their upsets of recent weeks , but back came United in the eighteenth minute , Les Phillips sent Nogan free over the halfway line and Eric Torsville had to race from his line to hack the ball into the stand . |
| 30 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |