Example sentences of "came [prep] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us . |
| 2 | Brian Swan was first to the ball when Townsend 's penalty came off the right-hand post and Swan was also in support of the stand-off when he touched down for his first try . |
| 3 | Cos , they sold out the , that 's all now and I think came from Yarmouth , they used , they used to have a big place at Yarmouth and we came through the other week and er I see their sheds are nearly all empty now , there . |
| 4 | Early morning summer light came through the barred window and lay on his uncovered back , making a checkered pattern with his freshly healed wounds . |
| 5 | When the daily help came through the back door and into the kitchen , she found Beth sitting at the table , breathless and dishevelled . |
| 6 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 7 | The doctor came for the last time and said , ‘ Yes , he 's going now . ’ |
| 8 | The escalation of the row came as the European Commissioner and former Cabinet member , Sir Leon Brittan , intervened in the debate to give warning that Britain would cause disruption throughout Europe and suffer substantial economic harm unless it ratified the Maastricht treaty . |
| 9 | The alert from police came after the latest smash and grab raid on a car being driven by a lone woman in Middlesbrough . |
| 10 | Then when I came near the broken house and stood in the moon shadow I could hear and see nothing . |
| 11 | It was just a tragedy that her friend had married a man whose birthday came under the same sign as her own . |
| 12 | That came with the last lot that I got . |
| 13 | I held them off with steelies and stones , and they fired back with air-guns , and for a while it was quite exciting , but then Mrs Clamp came with the weekly messages and threatened to call the police , and after calling her a few nasty names they left . |
| 14 | In Nicholson 's case , the description came with the ever-present prefix that on the occasions he has tried acid , it was used properly to avoid bad trips ; thus , he had ‘ come to terms with things that you perceive would be otherwise impossible — things that help you understand yourself … plus , if used properly , it can means quite a lot of kicks . ’ |
| 15 | When they came up the grassy track that led to the headland , out of the wood that clothed the side of the valley where the village was , the girl was delighted and her mother relieved that she liked it . |
| 16 | Cos he came round the next week and talked to me , he had a quick chat with me for about three hours ! |
| 17 | This led to restructuring costs , including redundancies and closures and other one-time charges totalling approximately twenty million dollars , of which approximately eighteen million dollars came in the second half and a very large portion of that in the last quarter of the year . |
| 18 | There were few moments to excite the crowd and the only note of controversy came in the second set when McNeil received a warning for slamming the ball out of court as she trailed 3–1 . |
| 19 | Lane , whose two European victories came in the 1987 Equity & Law Challenge and 1988 Scottish Open , earned £25,000 plus a special £5,000-a-year-for-five years award from the host club . |
| 20 | Witt , a big-serving 6ft 3ins American , produced a disastrous 12 double faults in the match but most of those came in the first set and a half when Wilkinson could hardly put a foot wrong . |
| 21 | It 's funny er when Richard came in the other day and said he 'd been he 'd been to the dentist and you said oh well they have n't been in touch with us yet . |
| 22 | Ironically , the award came in the same week that an article in Time Out magazine revealed an ongoing private dispute between Sellafield and the Central Electricity Generating Board ( CEGB ) about the efficiency and safety of reprocessing . |
| 23 | ‘ I came in the same van as someone called Gleeson , ’ said Marcus . |
| 24 | His Test debut came in the same match as Gordon Greenidge against India in 1973–4 , Greenidge totalling 200 runs and Richards 7 ; in the next game he made 192 not out and was under way . |
| 25 | The only knockdown of the fight came in the 11th round when the champion floored Close with a short , right upper cut . |
| 26 | The Arsenal equaliser came in the 82nd minute and denied a Norwich side that had taken the lead after 36 minutes when Ruel Fox scored his first goal for six months . |
| 27 | It was impossible not to feel that she had been badly treated , but the bad treatment came from the intransigent doctors and not from a Prime Minister who , as she must have known , was immensely supportive and would not willingly have been associated with any slight on her . |
| 28 | Governments and organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) and the Council of Europe sought steps to contain both the influx of migrants , many of whom came from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe , and the rise of racist sentiment . |
| 29 | An analysis of those involved in the Jacobite disturbances shows that most came from the petty trading and artisanal classes of the towns and industrial villages . |
| 30 | The jaw movements of some dinosaurs could have a grinding motion like mammals , but most of the mobility came from the upper jaw as it virtually expanded over the lower one . |