Example sentences of "came [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents , friends and students came along to see the many activities and interests available to the mentally handicapped in this part of Kent . |
| 2 | Then ( the 1970s ) double-digit inflation came along to bale the over-borrowed house-owner out . |
| 3 | The two groups then came together to begin the real business of the day — finding a shared appreciation of the situation in which they were to operate . |
| 4 | In effect , the two new superpowers came together to crush the great powers of yesteryear ; and the growing voice of Afro-Asia in world affairs was heeded for the first time . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , Gabby came in riding the second wave . |
| 6 | On Cordia nodosa ( Boraginaceae ) , however , invaders did not increase under these conditions , perhaps because the plant is so pubescent and therefore impassable to large ants in any case : only when lianes occupied by the smaller Crematogaster ants came near did the resident Allomerus demerarae attack . |
| 7 | ‘ We had outgrown our present building when the opportunity came up to purchase the adjoining freehold . |
| 8 | A hand came up to rumple the short hair at the back of his head , a gesture that betrayed his momentary awkwardness . |
| 9 | Keeps bouncing back : dumped by the Chicago Cubs in 1985 after injury , but was reprieved by Pittsburgh ; lasted a mere 18 pitches against the Cubs in game two of the NL play-offs but came back to win the decisive game five . |
| 10 | THE OAKLAND Athletics came back to win the first game of the best-of-seven American League championship series with a 7-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays , on Tuesday . |
| 11 | Emily Lightbody came back to work the following Monday . |
| 12 | ‘ We came back to get the vital point . |
| 13 | She left the cubicle to find a blood test kit , and came back to find the new houseman , Joe Reynolds , ordering head X-rays and a neurologist 's opinion . |
| 14 | Mahmoud was n't there when he arrived , so he went inside to buy his stamps and then came out to use the wet roller hanging against the wall . |
| 15 | She lugged her case up the wrong stairway , came out facing the open lough , had to find her way around the superstructure . |
| 16 | And on housing estates all along the line , residents came out to watch the strange scene . |
| 17 | And on housing estates all along the line , residents came out to watch the strange scene . |
| 18 | Humanity had brought many things along , inadvertently , when it came out to populate the stars-unseen stowaways like bacteria , flies , fleas . |
| 19 | Artists such as Turner , Cotman and John Martin came here to record the fiery scenes of the ‘ satanic mills ’ whose blast-furnaces belched flames into the sky and seemed to the Romantics something like visions of hell . |
| 20 | He also points out that a commitment to equality implies also a commitment to a state which will push everybody around until they are equal — Procrustes was a figure in Greek mythology who forced all those he came across to become the same height , either by chopping bits off or by using a rack to stretch their legs . |
| 21 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |