Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A bird came down in the topmost branches of the tree in which the cat lay in wait . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches . |
| 6 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 7 | Seve Ballesteros , who had shared the overnight lead on 67 , was making no further progress and was still five under par as he came in on the closing holes . |
| 8 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 9 | We could put ourselves in three lots of two and your mum came in with the three pizzas we 'd get one between us so we get a half . |
| 10 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 11 | The remains of her whiteface make-up came off with the clotted badges of blood . |
| 12 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 13 | A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job . |
| 14 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 15 | Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases . |
| 16 | But no , Bill then gave them another chance and another meeting , this time 120 skaters went along , and they came up with the following ramps : 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , with the spine itself being 12 ft wide [ the other 8ft bit being platform ] , and another 12 ft wide mini ramp , plus street stuff like fun boxes etc . |
| 17 | For the record , Olivier 's 1978 elephant census came up with the following figures : |
| 18 | Americans came up with the Big Ideas for videocassette recorders , basic oxygen furnaces , and continuous casters for making steel , microwave ovens , automobile stamping machines , computerized machine tools , integrated circuits . |
| 19 | How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ? |
| 20 | They came up with the Militant Clergy Association , which is understood to be moderate , and the Militant Clerics Society , which is described as left-wing fundamentalist . |
| 21 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 22 | ONCE-RACED MILIYEL * , who came up against the 1,000 Guineas ante-post favourite Musicale when both made their debut at Lingfield last season , may open her account in the Geoffrey Barling Maiden Fillies ' Stakes ( 2.00 ) at Newmarket today . |
| 23 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
| 24 | Sounds came back to the watching eagles . |
| 25 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 26 | The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe . |
| 27 | The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement . |
| 28 | A late arrival came out between the automatic doors , stared at the queue , walked back inside to join the uniformed chauffeur who had been waiting and holding a card . |
| 29 | Mahmoud came out of the Mixed Tribunals and crossed the street towards him . |
| 30 | That came out of the Current Issues in Agricultural Economics book . |