Example sentences of "came [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rope and spars came mostly from the Baltic states and the convoys got through with difficulty . |
| 2 | Macrovision Inc , Mountain View , and Philips Electronics NV 's Philips Semiconductors came together at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show this week to announce that Philips ' new NTSC and PAL colour encoder chips will include Macrovision 's patented pay-per-view anti-copy system . |
| 3 | Silence came only in the deep watches of the night . |
| 4 | Schiller 's resignation came soon after the decisive Bundestag vote on the ‘ Eastern Treaties ’ and made mid-1972 a difficult time for Brandt . |
| 5 | Of all the Soviet nationalities , the Baltic nations looked the most likely to establish ( or as they saw it , resume ) their independent statehood in the 1990s ; their opportunity to do so came soon after the attempted coup when ( in September 1991 ) the USSR Council of State formally approved their independent status and they were admitted into the United Nations and other international organisations . |
| 6 | Wycliffe 's head and neck came just above the plaited cane at the back of the chair . |
| 7 | Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like . |
| 8 | I 'd passed the first some way back , the second I knew came just before the horizontal passage . |
| 9 | Unfortunately at the press conference our careful recommendations about the importance of Standard English were presented in such a way that many journalists came away with the false impression that we did not mind if children spoke dialect rather than Standard English . |
| 10 | As my hand came away from the trim wheel I touched the auto pilot control and , on looking down . |
| 11 | He came away from the Old Entrance , having collected those of the destroyer 's crew not taken off by ML 6 , and as Micky Wynn came up with his special MTB , Robert Ryder told him to fire the torpedoes at the outer lock gate in the Old Entrance . |
| 12 | Curtailed in his researches he may have been , but Gould still came away from the parched furnace of the scrubs with some of the rarest novelties yet of his collection and a vast number of specimens of every description . |
| 13 | As it came away from the cold flesh , so she cut it into strips , and she wrapped each strip of skin around a piece of bone . |
| 14 | They came ashore at the small fishing ports of Mo i Rana and Bodö ; their headquarters group landing from their parent ship HMS Royal Ulsterman on 13 May 1940 . |
| 15 | Grandest among the hotels is the Imperial , Parkhill Road ( ) , a stately secluded clifftop spot , like a moored cruise ship embalmed in an atmosphere recalling days when Edward VII came ashore from the Royal Yacht . |
| 16 | Like many other things in the Community , however , the impetus came more from the internal tensions within the Community , and from the self-interest of its members than from loftier aims . |
| 17 | More cash for teacher training and reassurances about the policy came yesterday from the Scottish education minister , Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , in an attempt to quell growing concern about the costs and effects of a rapid change . |
| 18 | Ironically , the protest had nothing to do with the South Africans who were as warmly received as they had been in Jamaica and Trinidad , greeted and feted by the government and watched by Prime Ministers Erskine Sandiford of Barbados and P.J. Patterson of Jamaica who came specially for the historic occasion , the first Test ever played between teams previously kept apart by the ideology of racial superiority . |
| 19 | When this book was donated I borrowed it ti read , and it was not until I came home from the final clearing-up , and found my ‘ man of the house ’ serenely reading it , that I remembered about it . |
| 20 | My father — who could n't have been described as a saint by anyone — worked on the docks by day , lived in the pub at night and came home in the early morning because it was the only place he could fall asleep without being disturbed . |
| 21 | Fleming went on to describe how the nasal secretions of the patient ( himself , in fact ) were cultured , and how a round microbe or coccus first grew and then was destroyed where it came close to the nasal secretion . |
| 22 | Because their demands were nil , the Masai could be approached in a way which came close to the Colonial Service 's proclaimed ideal of disinterested benevolence . |
| 23 | There was no one in the stable or the yard , but when she came close to the back door she could hear voices from the kitchen . |
| 24 | you came close to the white line . |
| 25 | They came notably from the petty tradesmen , craftsmen , journeymen and apprentices of the capital 's myriad manufactures . |
| 26 | The name came both from the general appearance and from a certain make of shoe with a pattern free surface . |
| 27 | The Vidals came originally from the Basque country . |
| 28 | If anyone should object , the film-makers can always retort that the idea of Peter Pan growing up came originally from the six-year-old son of one of the scriptwriters . |
| 29 | If anyone should object , the film-makers can always retort that the idea of Peter Pan growing up came originally from the six-year-old son of one of the scriptwriters . |
| 30 | ‘ You know me ? ’ came sharply from the old lady . |