Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] came " in BNC.

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1 They say it really came from Croissant , meaning crescent , because there 's a bend in the valley and the river there .
2 You say he never came home last night ? "
3 Others may possibly have enjoyed what later came to be described as ‘ money-fiefs ’ , the regular receipt of some tax or source of revenue in return for service .
4 Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ?
5 But as those boxing her in came away from the rails at the entrance to the home stretch she found a good run up the inside , and when Teleprompter ran out of stamina with just over a furlong to go Pat Eddery shot the favourite into the lead and made for the wire .
6 With its trial balloon grounded again , the next attempt to patch it up came from Vincent Cannistraro , who claimed to have been in charge of the CIA 's contribution to the Flight 103 investigation until his retirement in September 1990 .
7 So we built this snowman round this rock and this car came back cos he came he just came in to hit it and he burst into and broke his bumper .
8 I do n't think she ever came to the City of the Horizon . ’
9 ‘ You were limping as you came across Ana 's room and I would think you probably came off worst in this adventure . ’
10 ‘ You mean she never came back ?
11 ‘ You mean she never came back ? ’
12 I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late .
13 As Ian Brown , of Lee Moor Farm in Northumberland , noted : ‘ A fact that saddened me lately came from a recent survey which suggested that the average family business — not just farms but all family businesses — lasts only 25 years , which I guess is only a generation .
14 Could you call that a deliberate back pass it almost came off Greyson 's er foot by mistake .
15 This led many later Greek thinkers to regard musical theory as a branch of mathematics ( together with geometry , arithmetic , and astronomy it constituted what eventually came to be called the quadrivium ) , although this view was not universally accepted , the most influential of those who rejected it being Aristoxenus of Tarentum ( fourth century BC ) .
16 cos trolley buses , in this town were really the erm well I suppose they really came about , rather than motor buses right at the start because built trolley buses and so did of Laiston .
17 He 'd tried , the first year , rooming with the others , and had found they still came up to him all the time with their queries — ‘ They 've sent me the wrong costume for Gypsy Baron .
18 Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal .
19 ‘ Oh , from what she said , I gathered she usually came round here . ’
20 ‘ Sorry , but if there was a vehicle involved it probably came from there .
21 I think I 'd had I finished my breakfast when , no I think you just came just as I was about to take my first mouthful of cereal .
22 The shot that should have finished him never came .
23 ‘ I think he also came on as a substitute in a first team friendly against the New Zealand national team .
24 ‘ I think he also came on as a substitute in a first-team friendly against the New Zealand national team .
25 it came , it did it almost came to a halt again and it could 've been dangerous as well you , children in the back , two children in the back !
26 I think it just came back here for the milk and then it 'll be away .
27 Wonder what ever came of that .
28 I went why why , he said I just came round to your room and you were n't there but your music was on .
29 In Robert Chalmers 's recent profile of Sarah Miles on this page , the actress said she always came out of interviews sounding either sordid or bananas .
30 Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it .
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