Example sentences of "came [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His takeover in January 1982 came with Oxford in the 3rd division and facing bankruptcy . |
| 2 | Although the 1978 policy paper was never published , its main features were incorporated in the manifesto , and the supplementary briefing that accompanied it , for the General Election which came in May of the following year . |
| 3 | We glimpse Raulinus , for example , who came from Devon in the mid-thirteenth century , wasted time as a student in Paris for two years and then came on to Bologna making a living copying manuscripts , drinking and writing love poems to Meldina . |
| 4 | The early Christian influence came from England from the tenth century onwards and its principal centre was at Uppsala . |
| 5 | This last , for example , came from Persia in the early years of the sixteenth century , was given a medrese by Bayezid II , then turned to the career of a kadi , serving , according to Mecdi , in Serez and Filibe , among other places . |
| 6 | The Goths , who came from Gotland in the late third century divided and merged with other peoples . |
| 7 | The classic remark came from Abrams at the public hearings : ‘ I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I had no idea about . ’ |
| 8 | When the Cistercians , ‘ White Monks ’ , came from Burgundy in the twelfth century they sought ‘ wildernesses ’ for their life of vigorous contemplation . |
| 9 | He came from Agyrium in the inferior , not far from Etna . |
| 10 | Advisers came from Argentina for the same purpose . |
| 11 | They came to Anoch in the early afternoon , having to break their journey early , because the opportunities for food and lodging were not evenly distributed between Fort Augustus and Glenelg : Johnson says , ‘ the only house , where we could be entertained , was not further off than a third of the way ’ . |
| 12 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 13 | What I have in common with the Kurd is green eyes , the fact that he came to England at the same time as I did — and that he too looks like a refugee from a Verdi opera . |
| 14 | When Robertson Nicoll came to England in the 1880s he went to Dawlish where he complained : ‘ Dissent here is nowhere … |
| 15 | He had been born in Jamaica but came to England in the 1940s to work in the steel industry . |
| 16 | He and his wife were Turkish-born Jews who came to Palestine before the Second World War . |
| 17 | It was in the spring of 1956 that Elizabeth came to Greece for the first time , on a cruise . |
| 18 | Bancroftian filariasis , the commonest cause of these spectacular scroti , came to Brazil with the African slaves . |
| 19 | Cottee came to Everton with the best of references a goal every two games in his West Ham days . |
| 20 | That year he came to Europe as the roving correspondent and covered the several large conferences . |
| 21 | Making up yardage charts started in America in the late 1950s , took off in the 1960s and came to Britain in the 1970s . |
| 22 | Why , one might ask in reply , did Anderson never develop stories that engaged with just these issues , even when Joseph Losey , an American who came to Britain in the early 1950s as a refugee from the communist witch-hunts , could deal with them in an assignment for Hammer . |
| 23 | Boyd first came to Britain in the early Sixties as the organiser of one of the first package tours of blues and gospel musicians , featuring artists such as Muddy Waters and the Reverend Gary Davis . |
| 24 | When Sikh men came to Britain in the fifties it was with the hope of making some money ( usually to buy more land for the family farm ) and returning . |
| 25 | He was the son of James Six ( 1695–1743 ) and his wife Ester , daughter of Louis Ducaufour , and descended from the Huguenot refugee families who came to Britain in the sixteenth century and settled in Canterbury , where they engaged in the silk-weaving trade . |
| 26 | This effort , as far as the administrative machinery was concerned , was initiated by the French advisers who came to Spain in the early years of the century with the first Bourbon king , Philip V ; later it was encouraged by Choiseul , who saw in the effective mobilization of the resources of his ally the means to defeat England and lay the foundations of a Franco-Spanish world power . |
| 27 | An inspector who came to Durham at the same time as myself to read Law and the Sociology of Law , found the latter course required a move to concepts outside normal police experience . |
| 28 | Christianity came to Kerala in the first century . |
| 29 | When the first European missionaries came to China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries no trace remained of the heavenly clockwork of five hundred years earlier . |
| 30 | Chapman had first appreciated the crowd-pulling potential of a station practically on Arsenal 's doorstep , giving the club a quick connection with most parts of the capital , when he came to Highbury as the visiting manager of Leeds City in 1913 , and it now fired his imagination . |