Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Hay left out the experienced campaigners Karen Brown , Vickey Dixon and Jane Sixsmith from the starting line-up , though Sixsmith came on as a late substitute for Joanne Menown .
2 England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills .
3 Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer .
4 As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 .
5 Beyond the curtains , the rain came down with a sudden clatter on the roof of the Ropewalk below .
6 ‘ Yesterday morning , Doctor Livesey came down with a white flag .
7 The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear .
8 However , setting this aside and taking parent-authorisation at face value , the high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage perceived to be casual or persistent truants .
9 The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows .
10 Following these now disregarded signs of past activity along the old path , I traversed the hillside and came down to a crumbling stone sheepfold with the roofless remains of a shepherd 's hut built into one wall .
11 After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea .
15 We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees .
16 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 .
17 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 ?
18 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 ?
19 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 .
20 I thought you said there 'd be no problem if I came in on a six-month permit ? ’
21 He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes .
22 One day Aileen came in with a black eye .
23 Owners , whose holiday brands include Sovereign , Enterprise and Falcon , had sought an alliance with German-owned Thomas Cook to cement its position in the competitive UK market , but fast-growing and highly-profitable Airtours came in with a rival bid to spark off weeks of rhetoric and activity which finally ended yesterday .
24 The sea came in with a weightless rush and trickled between dry rocks .
25 But when no-one came in with a firm bid Beck sent a video compilation of all Dublin 's goals to every First Division club .
26 ‘ I came in with a bad knee and it just started getting worse , ’ the 13th-seeded Lendl said .
27 There was another one came in with a little bit of a strain yesterday morning , so what 've done this morning , we 've just had a collective training session and we 've told them to report at quarter to eleven in the morning .
28 After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material .
29 This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft .
30 Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent .
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