Example sentences of "came [adv prt] in a [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 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 4 | We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It nearly always came over in a bad light , as a bunch of cocooned scientists trying to hoodwink the common sense of ordinary folk . |
| 8 | This fella came over in an 18–30 steward 's blazer and he said , ‘ You 're responsible for me working here ’ . |
| 9 | She came back in a lively mood dressed in ruby velvet with her furs . |
| 10 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 11 | He sighed heavily and his voice came out in a nervous croak . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It came out in a hoarse whisper , ‘ It 's morning , nearly . ’ |
| 14 | Nathaniel Sherman jabbed a thumb against his own chest and his words came out in a fierce undertone . |
| 15 | We worked our way around the central tier , hands in pockets , and came out in an ornamental garden open to the stars . |
| 16 | The abolition of capital punishment and reform of the law on homosexuality came about in a similar way . |
| 17 | ( a ) If the kind of damage suffered is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that the damage came about in an unforeseeable way . |