Example sentences of "[noun] came [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission for the piece came from Life magazine , but due to a change in publishers the images never ran , ‘ I 've tried to sell it overseas and in Europe and had very good success with it . |
| 2 | ’ The same talent came into play whenever the religious issue surfaced . |
| 3 | On the other hand Labour came to power in London in 1934 , re-elected in 1937 . |
| 4 | The Parents ' Association came into being ; the Stopfordian Trust was established ; the School 's financial arrangements were conducted on more commercial lines . |
| 5 | Partly as a result , Whitehaven came to prominence in the Virginia tobacco trade during the 1740s , although Lowther had only indirect links with the merchant community . |
| 6 | János Hunyadi was regent of Hungary during the minority of King Ladislas V , but had to step down at the very moment of the fall of Constantinople when Ladislas came of age . |
| 7 | 685–6 when the pagan Caedwalla came to power , and the southern Saxons under a Christian king , Aethelwealh , but still otherwise largely a pagan people , appear to have been beyond the range of Theodore 's metropolitan power . |
| 8 | The neutrons came from fusion reactions between particles that had been accelerated to very high energies by magnetic fields the scientists were using to contain the very hot ionised gases that were supposed to support fusion . |
| 9 | The Ferranti family 's demands came to light as a result of an approach by representatives of Hill Samuel and Murray Johnstone , who are canvassing support among shareholders for a plan to make Ferranti hive off its core UK defence interests and merge them with the defence activities of Thorn EMI . |
| 10 | Law was thus besieged with demands that he should retreat to a compromise position as Balfour had done in 1910 , and again these demands came from tariff reformers as well as free-traders . |
| 11 | In the Soviet Union executive power was virtually supreme until Gorbachev came into office . |
| 12 | When President Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in Moscow in early 1985 , Mr Husak became one of the disoriented old men of Eastern Europe , and when Mr Gorbachev reached Prague , in the spring of 1987 , Mr Husak looked out of his depth . |
| 13 | Nearly six years since Mr Gorbachev came to power , it is still unclear what sort of future he has in mind for the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | The best brains and resources had gone into military research and development until Gorbachev came to power . |
| 15 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 16 | Opposed by Soviet intellectuals such as writer Valentin Rasputin , if was finally dropped when Gorbachev came to power . |
| 17 | I T N obtained an exclusive interview with the K G B in which the Soviet Security Department admitted actually stepping up their activities since President Mikhail Gorbachev came to power . |
| 18 | Since Gorbachev came to power , thirty spies have been arrested in the Soviet Union and all but a few executed . |
| 19 | At ten o'clock on a Sunday morning traffic was almost nonexistent , and as soon as Deirdre came into view Jacob began to cycle towards the bridge . |
| 20 | Will and Deirdre came to supper recently — poor dears it was an uninspired meal but their visit cheered me immeasurably … |
| 21 | GINA WAS INDEED PERFECTLY NICE AND POLITE WHEN ELEANOR came to tea . |
| 22 | Quite a happy telegram came from father RAF with a remark about all being ‘ right on the target . ’ |
| 23 | After spending years making his name in northern clubs , his big break came on TV 's Opportunity Knocks in 1967 . |
| 24 | After parts in At Close Range with Sean Penn and Spielberg 's section of Amazing Stories , Kiefer 's big break came with Stand By Me , in which he played ’ an asshole ’ called Ace Merril . |
| 25 | Certainly some of the tension came from implementation of a restructuring programme . |
| 26 | Before the spinning wheel came into use , much later in the North than in the South of England , all spinning was done on a spindle . |
| 27 | The formalised and structured use of a variety of books to support learning in schools came into play only when the school population had been weeded down to less that 10% of the state school population . ’ |
| 28 | Jefferson came to Church youth work with very solid credentials . |
| 29 | The two voices came in unison , but she ignored them , simply turning to smile back at Faye and Tom from the doorway . |
| 30 | December 1934 , Italian and Ethiopian force came into conflict in the border area of Ethiopia and by the following summer , Mussolini was making extravagant demands of Ethiopia . |