Example sentences of "came [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What representations have the Government made about the new proposal , particularly in Latvia , to restrict citizenship to those whose descendants came from the Baltic states and to those who speak the Baltic languages ? |
| 5 | At first most came from the British Isles and northern Europe , but from the 1880s increasing numbers arrived from central , southern and eastern Europe from the Austro-Hungarian Empire , Italy , Greece and the Russian Empire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The woman came down the remaining stairs and stood before Lee , so close that he could smell the perfume — expensive and subtle — off her . |
| 8 | According to the former , Molla Edebali , a native of Karaman , came to the Ottoman lands and there won the complete confidence of Osman so that the latter " used to refer to him problems in the Seriat and to consult with him in matters of government " . |