Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
| 32 | The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair . |
| 33 | Most of the groceries came down from a grand shop in London but she 'd order perishable goods from her brother and then send a servant to complain of the quality . |
| 34 | When the clock struck , the preacher came down from a little room behind the platform , followed by ten or a dozen men who looked like prosperous City merchants . |
| 35 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 36 | My talk with Quintin had more content since he said that if another peer came down from the Upper House he would withdraw from public life whether he was in the Upper or Lower House . |
| 37 | The smells that came down from the higher ground might tell him something . |
| 38 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 39 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 40 | We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees . |
| 41 | The-other four Goshawk aircraft came down in an angled line which allowed each gun to rake the target from nose to tail in a continuous devastation of bullets . |
| 42 | Half way through his super-human effort his foot slipped and in mid-launch he came down in an uncoordinated heap just outside the throwing circle . |
| 43 | A bird came down in the topmost branches of the tree in which the cat lay in wait . |
| 44 | Late in the afternoon , a porter came along with a creaking trolley carrying a coffee urn and snackstuffs , and everyone stirred to a kind of frisky wakefulness and examined the fare keenly . |
| 45 | No news for 6 months then she came along with an anal fissure , she 'd not had any stomach problems and in fact had only taken the Arg Nit LM3 for 2 or 3 days till the headache went . |
| 46 | thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
| 47 | I came in as a young teacher , enthusiastic , full of new ideas but you soon find that the old attitudes rub off on you , and so you end up thinking , ‘ Oh , why am I doing this ? |
| 48 | It was often her task to carry it up to the little sitting-room , followed by Mary from the village , who came in as a daily maid , bearing a silver jug of hot water and matches to light all the lamps . |
| 49 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 50 | A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted . |
| 51 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 52 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 53 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 54 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 55 | He looked up when Donna Frizzell came in through the back door , and was startled to see that her hat was awry and her makeup smudged beyond repair . |
| 56 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 57 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 58 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 59 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 60 | The hours passed , daylight faded , and the sounds of a warm September evening came in through the open window . |