Example sentences of "came [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the freight train came slowly to a halt at the loop stop signal near the box , the fireman told the signalman of their problem who in turn reported the incident to the train control . |
| 2 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 3 | The Australian trainer came on with a bucket of water to try to revive the apparently comatose Fulton . |
| 4 | If anyone have seen pictures from our game against Poland he came on as a substitute for Fjortoft as lone attacker — and he played brilliantly for the 20 minutes he was on . |
| 5 | He came on as a substitute against Monaghan in the provincial semi-final and played well , but a place in the final starting line-up still eluded him . |
| 6 | ‘ I think he also came on as a substitute in a first team friendly against the New Zealand national team . |
| 7 | ‘ I think he also came on as a substitute in a first-team friendly against the New Zealand national team . |
| 8 | Dan Jackart , the other capped prop , went off with a damaged shoulder in the first half against North Harbour but came on as a replacement for Szabo . |
| 9 | A dim light came on behind a blind in the Frankenstein mansion . |
| 10 | ‘ The spider came down on a thread in front of me while I was driving . |
| 11 | ‘ Given that I was one of them it came down to a choice between Gower and Gatting . |
| 12 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 13 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 14 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 15 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 16 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 17 | Only two suffered injuries as the craft came down in a field at Pirbright , Surrey . |
| 18 | The group , which included some 30 journalists , media teachers and lawyers from throughout Africa , came together for a seminar on ‘ The African Charter on Human and People 's Rights and its Impact on Communication Policy and Practice ’ . |
| 19 | The group , which included some 30 journalists , media teachers and lawyers from throughout Africa , came together for a seminar on ‘ The African Charter on Human and People 's Rights and its Impact on Communication Policy and Practice ’ . |
| 20 | The two legends came together for a race in aid of the charity , Comic Relief . |
| 21 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |
| 22 | Both the sun and the air as wind were essential to human life and in Amun-Re came together as a coalescence of creative elements . |
| 23 | The work on show , produced by none recently graduated women artists , demonstrates an unmistakable commitment both to engage and challenge the painterly and formal conventions of modernism. 2 The group originally came together as a result of a set of interviews and articles coordinated by Rebecca Fortnum and Gill Houghton , published in a special issue of the Women Artists ' Slide Library Journal in 1989. 3 |
| 24 | The newcomer came in on a gust of the storm . |
| 25 | WILLIAMS ) came in at a run from the " Coriolanus " matin e e , still in his toga , and just made his position in time . ] |
| 26 | Rico came in with a couple of white towels , which he threw on the table . |
| 27 | She thought he was going to kiss her , but it did n't happen , because the door was pushed open and the clerk came in with a pile of reports from other departments . |
| 28 | He came in with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other hand . |
| 29 | And when the sh when the relief came in the ship lay about a mile off the never came near the rock at all because it was just a mass of reefs you know and the ship lay about a mile off and then the launch came in with a crew of about half a dozen men and the officer the second mate usually in charge . |
| 30 | They were a bit big for me but they were lovely and dry and I was feeling great when he came in with a bottle of champagne . |