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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing .
4 Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea .
5 We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 A bird came down in the topmost branches of the tree in which the cat lay in wait .
9 ‘ The call came through in the normal way and we dealt with it as we normally would , ’ he said .
10 It nearly always came over in a bad light , as a bunch of cocooned scientists trying to hoodwink the common sense of ordinary folk .
11 … One of the topics came up in the following week 's Science lesson … the girls took great delight in showing the boys how to perform the tasks ! … the improvement in their confidence was most marked . ’
12 She came back in a lively mood dressed in ruby velvet with her furs .
13 and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk !
14 He sighed heavily and his voice came out in a nervous croak .
15 But his interest in them came out in a unique way almost twenty years ago when he founded a shop that has become a fixture on Prince Street Untitled .
16 It came out in a hoarse whisper , ‘ It 's morning , nearly . ’
17 Nathaniel Sherman jabbed a thumb against his own chest and his words came out in a fierce undertone .
18 Eventually we came out in the comparative brightness of the open space behind the house .
19 We worked our way around the central tier , hands in pockets , and came out in an ornamental garden open to the stars .
20 The abolition of capital punishment and reform of the law on homosexuality came about in a similar way .
21 ( a ) If the kind of damage suffered is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that the damage came about in an unforeseeable way .
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