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

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1 They came on to the golden sand and stood in silence , winds of light moving over them plainly , despite the brightness of the evening sunshine .
2 Primary Health Care , understood as an approach to health care going beyond the medical model to include the promotive , rehabilitative and educational dimensions of health care in addition to curative/treatment dimensions , came on to the international stage in 1978 at the conference of Alma Ata .
3 Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years .
4 He came on for the injured Mumby and headed in a perfect Measham cross to score his first goal for the club .
5 The 29-year-old Scot , a £225,000 summer capture from Millwall , has struggled to find his form on Wearside but all that changed when he came on for the injured Don Goodman after just 12 minutes of Saturday 's game against Barnsley .
6 Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly .
7 ‘ On whether you came on with the aggressive line you 're using now . ’
8 Rocky came on in the 60th minute but could not affect the game .
9 Paul came on in the second half of the game in Dublin last week and played well .
10 Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing .
11 The little plane came down at the old airport , south of the town .
12 Then Handlebar 's cock suddenly jumped into the air , flew the distance that separated it from its rival and came down on the darker bird with its neck arched and talons open .
13 He took in Marcus 's absence , went upstairs and came down with the pale boy behind him .
14 So Morag when she came down , came down for the whole week .
15 As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults !
16 He came down to the front door with me .
17 Cathery also added : " Lewis and Cannon ( the branch secretary ) came down to the Central Office and I let [ them ] see all the books , cheque book , bank passbook etc. ; in fact all they wanted to see .
18 Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job .
19 The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The smells that came down from the higher ground might tell him something .
23 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 .
24 A bird came down in the topmost branches of the tree in which the cat lay in wait .
25 You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that .
26 A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted .
27 I could relive it every time I came in through the front door .
28 She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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