Example sentences of "came [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hundred , the ninth in a career which has now entered its 15th year , came off the last ball of the game after his captain , Graham Gooch , had delayed the final formality of a declaration . |
| 2 | Sarah came through the first week of marriage with few hopes of real happiness , though she was pleased enough with her elevated circumstances . |
| 3 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
| 4 | His neighbour came through the front door of the house to the right . |
| 5 | Czechs in Cleveland to learn how to cope with job losses WAYS in which the North-East came through the industrial upheaval of the '70s and '80s could prove an invaluable blueprint for revival for the people of Czechoslovakia . |
| 6 | Tom O'Neill came through the revolving doors on a blast of icy air and stepped out on the other side into a blanket of almost oppressive warmth . |
| 7 | A chill wind came through the open doors to the balcony . |
| 8 | The biggest crisis in her until then trouble-free career came during a recording session in her home town . |
| 9 | The accusations came during the first day of a tribunal in which Ron Thomson claims he was forced to quit his post as general manager at the trust . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that the victory came during the fasting month of Ramadan , tons of sweets were distributed by people from all walks of life starting with school children and ending with industrial tycoons . |
| 11 | Monica Drinkwater 's attack came during an emotional debate on economic policy at the party 's conference in Brighton . |
| 12 | The accusation came during an angry row over a newspaper story which claimed Anne had put off her wedding to Naval Commander Tim Laurence — and called Princess Di and Fergie ‘ two silly girls ’ . |
| 13 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 14 | Most of the 1,500 crowd who came for the best objects on the last two days of the sale meanwhile , were just tourists , which made taking bids extremely difficult and fatiguing , Tajan said . |
| 15 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |
| 16 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 17 | Like the Dutch family who came for the half-term holiday in late February one year . |
| 18 | . However that was all changed and er that was the first thing we changed and erm then we erm , during the period we , the staff were changed , Mr and Mrs who are in charge of now , they came as a young couple to View and er I think with their coming , they had different ideas and the place did seem to change . |
| 19 | With four children and a stable lifestyle , the break-up of the Docherty 's marriage came as a devastating blow to those closest to him . |
| 20 | The news came as a devastating blow to her 67-year-old father , the Mossley Hill-born grandson of a Liverpool police superintendent . |
| 21 | In fact , it came as a complete surprise to the hoteliers of Ramsey when they were given notice to quit their premises within six days , leaving behind ‘ all furniture , bedding , linen , cutlery , crockery and utensils ’ . |
| 22 | The redundancies apparently came as a complete surprise to USL staff who were assured before Christmas that no jobs would be lost through the Novell deal . |
| 23 | This result came as a complete surprise to me and everyone else , and it was greeted with general disbelief . |
| 24 | The news came as a complete surprise to workers at the Oxfordshire base . |
| 25 | Naturally the news came as a terrible shock to her . |
| 26 | The oil price rises of October 1973 came as a serious blow to Bonn , as it did to other Western European nations . |
| 27 | It sometimes came as a slight shock to Wycliffe to have this paragon of the modern virtues working under his direction . |
| 28 | Glen Coe Still on conservation issues , it came as a pleasant surprise to many when the news leaked that the Countryside Commission for Scotland , who built and own the controversial visitors centre on National Trust for Scotland ground in Glen Coe , had recommended that the centre be moved . |
| 29 | However , it came as a great shock to Richard when , some time later , this friend fell into profanity and drunkenness . |
| 30 | The original defections of Burgess and Maclean in 1951 naturally came as a great shock to the British establishment and were embarrassing because of the inept way MI5 handled the matter . |