Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Parents , friends and students came along to see the many activities and interests available to the mentally handicapped in this part of Kent . |
2 | Then ( the 1970s ) double-digit inflation came along to bale the over-borrowed house-owner out . |
3 | ‘ Well , Gabby came in riding the second wave . |
4 | ‘ We had outgrown our present building when the opportunity came up to purchase the adjoining freehold . |
5 | A hand came up to rumple the short hair at the back of his head , a gesture that betrayed his momentary awkwardness . |
6 | Keeps bouncing back : dumped by the Chicago Cubs in 1985 after injury , but was reprieved by Pittsburgh ; lasted a mere 18 pitches against the Cubs in game two of the NL play-offs but came back to win the decisive game five . |
7 | THE OAKLAND Athletics came back to win the first game of the best-of-seven American League championship series with a 7-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays , on Tuesday . |
8 | Emily Lightbody came back to work the following Monday . |
9 | ‘ We came back to get the vital point . |
10 | She left the cubicle to find a blood test kit , and came back to find the new houseman , Joe Reynolds , ordering head X-rays and a neurologist 's opinion . |
11 | Mahmoud was n't there when he arrived , so he went inside to buy his stamps and then came out to use the wet roller hanging against the wall . |
12 | She lugged her case up the wrong stairway , came out facing the open lough , had to find her way around the superstructure . |
13 | And on housing estates all along the line , residents came out to watch the strange scene . |
14 | And on housing estates all along the line , residents came out to watch the strange scene . |
15 | Humanity had brought many things along , inadvertently , when it came out to populate the stars-unseen stowaways like bacteria , flies , fleas . |