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

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1 Beyond the curtains , the rain came down with a sudden clatter on the roof of the Ropewalk below .
2 ‘ Yesterday morning , Doctor Livesey came down with a white flag .
3 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 .
4 He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes .
5 One day Aileen came in with a black eye .
6 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 .
7 The sea came in with a weightless rush and trickled between dry rocks .
8 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 .
9 ‘ I came in with a bad knee and it just started getting worse , ’ the 13th-seeded Lendl said .
10 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 .
11 But it was Vose who came through with a strong finish on the final circuit to claim second place , but he could not match Pearson 's strength on the hills .
12 They came up with a 230 horse power sports cruiser happy to have me aboard .
13 In 1990 he came up with a middling conclusion : brontosaurs had bones as strong as those of modern elephants in terms of comparative scale .
14 Supply sergeants scouring Saudi shoe-shops came up with a bewildering variety of non-regulation footwear : zippered beige Saudi military desert boots , Omani army boots , Israeli army desert boots , even imported hiking boots .
15 It came up with a complex route which involves both endocytosis and fusion .
16 However , after a TOP Timeout , they came up with a real solution .
17 Discussions went on for a year and cost T&L about £500,000 in legal fees and other expenses , Vlitos says , ‘ but they came up with a strong agreement which protected T&L — a pygmy next to a corporate giant like J&J ’ .
18 WHEN the artist Whistler came up with a memorable quip , Oscar Wilde observed wistfully : ‘ I wish I 'd said that . ’
19 After a few experiments , I came up with a reasonable facsimile of Rebecca 's accidental assemblage .
20 Matsushita began work on cobalt-free magnets in 1968 and came up with a manganese-aluminium-carbon material in 1979 .
21 The team took up the gauntlet thrown down by the Health and Safety Executive and came up with a thorough checklist for the city 's 7 homes .
22 Something like ’ reduce greatly ’ will do — But the Europeans came up with a new wheeze to infuriate everyone .
23 But then Sunderland came up with a new offer and Liverpool launched a fresh diplomatic offensive .
24 Edward Nunn , advising on marketing , came up with a possible reason .
25 I felt these elementary slips should be corrected , and came up with a possible solution .
26 As the arguments raged , Stuttgart came up with a possible solution .
27 It was only in 1946 that he came up with a practical scheme for using the manyattas for higher purposes .
28 Finally she came up with a small hand mirror and inspected herself in it .
29 He scrabbled in the bottom of the box and came up with a small piece of carved and polished wood .
30 And informal , we came up with a great variety of things .
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