Example sentences of "came [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rope and spars came mostly from the Baltic states and the convoys got through with difficulty . |
| 2 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 3 | A bird came down in the topmost branches of the tree in which the cat lay in wait . |
| 4 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 5 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 6 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 7 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 8 | Seve Ballesteros , who had shared the overnight lead on 67 , was making no further progress and was still five under par as he came in on the closing holes . |
| 9 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 10 | Silence came only in the deep watches of the night . |
| 11 | In the 18 years 1798–1815 inclusive , for each million tons sold there were 0.62 explosions and approximately 11 deaths ; in 1817–1834 inclusive the cost was 0.68 explosions , a 10 per cent increase , but with the loss of only 8.7 lives : for 1839–1844 , this had fallen further to 6.5 lives , But the three periods are not easily comparable ; the new production came not from the old collieries described but from new and ever deeper ones to the south and east made accessible after 1815 by steam-and-gravity operated railways . |
| 12 | Like many other things in the Community , however , the impetus came more from the internal tensions within the Community , and from the self-interest of its members than from loftier aims . |
| 13 | The remains of her whiteface make-up came off with the clotted badges of blood . |
| 14 | They came notably from the petty tradesmen , craftsmen , journeymen and apprentices of the capital 's myriad manufactures . |
| 15 | A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job . |
| 16 | But no , Bill then gave them another chance and another meeting , this time 120 skaters went along , and they came up with the following ramps : 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , with the spine itself being 12 ft wide [ the other 8ft bit being platform ] , and another 12 ft wide mini ramp , plus street stuff like fun boxes etc . |
| 17 | For the record , Olivier 's 1978 elephant census came up with the following figures : |
| 18 | Americans came up with the Big Ideas for videocassette recorders , basic oxygen furnaces , and continuous casters for making steel , microwave ovens , automobile stamping machines , computerized machine tools , integrated circuits . |
| 19 | How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ? |
| 20 | They came up with the Militant Clergy Association , which is understood to be moderate , and the Militant Clerics Society , which is described as left-wing fundamentalist . |
| 21 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 22 | Sounds came back to the watching eagles . |
| 23 | Sir Ivor came smoothly round the retreating horses to take third place on the rails behind Czar Alexander , with Fort Marcy on the outside . |
| 24 | The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement . |
| 25 | A late arrival came out between the automatic doors , stared at the queue , walked back inside to join the uniformed chauffeur who had been waiting and holding a card . |
| 26 | Mahmoud came out of the Mixed Tribunals and crossed the street towards him . |
| 27 | That came out of the Current Issues in Agricultural Economics book . |
| 28 | Hulagu came out of the clustered spectators . |
| 29 | He came out of the northern clubs and was loved by millions . ’ |
| 30 | Matthew and Sara and the children with them came out of the old woods into the new plantation , where rows of conifers , dark green , were interplanted with small spindly brighter green beeches . |