Example sentences of "came [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 2 | With a hiss , the double-sided door began to close , just as the figure of Mahon turned the corner and came after them at a terrifying speed . |
| 3 | They called to him twice before he heard , and then he started and came after them at a rapid walk , like a man driven by some urgent pain he could not slough off . |
| 4 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 5 | Four times a day the nurse came towards her across the wide spaces of lino with the shiny basin containing the rattling metal syringe . |
| 6 | After a word with his clerks , Henniker came with me into the other room . |
| 7 | It worked ; the old man came with him into the junk-filled yard . |
| 8 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 9 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 10 | Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak . |
| 11 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
| 12 | To develop his system , the idea for which probably came to him during a passing involvement with cable trams , Holroyd Smith built three experimental miniature lines in Halifax during 1883–4 . |
| 13 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 14 | The sun came to him in a warm gust or like a warm veil enveloping him . |
| 15 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 16 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 17 | Conversely , if the accused can show that the material came to him in the normal course of business from a reputable supplier , he may have a defence . |
| 18 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 19 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 20 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 21 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 22 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 23 | Mabel looked astonished ; any event in her life , no matter how mundane , always came to her as a great surprise . |
| 24 | She vaguely heard Matilda 's angry voice , but it came to her from a great distance . |
| 25 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 26 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 27 | My Pop came to me with an old Army pistol in his hand , knelt beside me and said , ‘ If you want me to kill him , I will . |
| 28 | George Kidner came to me in a great state of mind because he has been asked to appear before a committee consisting of C. Bathurst , Peto & C. Mills & sitting at Central Office . |
| 29 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 30 | They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound . |