Example sentences of "came [prep] the [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just a tragedy that her friend had married a man whose birthday came under the same sign as her own . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I came in the same van as someone called Gleeson , ’ said Marcus . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The only knockdown of the fight came in the 11th round when the champion floored Close with a short , right upper cut . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The sample from Wales came from the same locality as the short-eared owl and tawny owl pellet samples , and the kestrel was hunting over much the same area as these species . |
| 8 | EWM 's auditors — who came from the same firm as the rider 's accountant — suggested the link-up . |
| 9 | Do you find that , as Adrienne Rich wrote of Marie Curie , ‘ her wounds came from the same source as her power ? ’ |
| 10 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |
| 11 | Although they spoke German and came from the same backgrounds as their charges , they were often young and inexperienced and unprepared for the demands of the work . |
| 12 | Other sources observe that HP and Sun , who came to the MAS announcement as cheerleaders , did not exactly pledge to adopt it leaving only IBM who was already involved . |
| 13 | Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself . |
| 14 | At that precise moment , Delaney came to the same conclusion as Nell . |
| 15 | He came to the same conclusion as Duncan . |
| 16 | He denounced the arrests on Aug. 14 of opposition leaders , which , he noted , came on the same day as the release of Sgt. Venançio Mikó Obiang , who was convicted in July 1983 of participating in an attempted coup the previous May [ see pp. 32299-300 ] . |
| 17 | They started drinking before the parson ever arrived and , when he did , fell upon the beer kegs that came on the same cart as though they were men dying of thirst . |
| 18 | The crunch game came at the second hurdle when Sudbury toppled the mighty London Welsh at Moorsfield , after which they have gone from strength to strength , bolstered by a refreshing brand of running rugby . |
| 19 | The enormous increase in the demand for lace was largely due to the fashion for lace curtains which came at the same time as a huge house-building programme , and buyers came from home and abroad to negotiate their deals in the Lace Market . |
| 20 | I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’ |
| 21 | The news came at the same time as Personal Computer World 's first annual awards — where the judges voted our 486-based PC the Best Power-User System ( see page 7 ) . |