Example sentences of "[pron] came [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , people have destroyed their documents on aeroplanes and in one case someone came with an outdated passport . |
| 2 | He said , ‘ Someone came over the wall . |
| 3 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 4 | Someone came into the kitchen from the door to the hallway , switched on the light , apparently glanced round , and then went into the sitting room , leaving the door to the kitchen open . |
| 5 | When someone came into the room he realised he had gone out in a sweet unconscious . |
| 6 | Someone came to the shop and tried to sell him an old cross with paste stones in it . |
| 7 | Someone came to the door . |
| 8 | How many t I mean er how many times has have you have you had have you had have you had problems with people you know when you told me about w that incident when someone came to the door and took your r took your rent off you ? |
| 9 | ‘ Someone came by the house with a loudhailer but I could n't hear it properly . |
| 10 | We lined up in the final and I came off the bend well in the lead . |
| 11 | I was the favourite to win the ‘ double ’ , but in the 200 metres , though I came off the bend in the lead , I relaxed too much and first John Regis and then Todd Bennett came past me . |
| 12 | Yeah , erm I er , I 'd given up erm about se seven weeks ago , and I was told that it was an anti-depressant and when I came off the cigarettes it was just terrible ! |
| 13 | When I came off the phone she said , " Mum you 'd better sit down . |
| 14 | I , I did n't I came off the council at that time and er I became the president of the gathering . |
| 15 | When I came off the phone . |
| 16 | You can imagine my surprise when looking around the Lancaster hangar at the display boards , I came across a copy of Flt Lt Bulcraig 's DFM citation , with a typed caption stating that our pilot had been killed with all his crew ! |
| 17 | Around that time I came across a dog-eared treatise on the 1968 student uprisings , in particular the LSE sit-in . |
| 18 | Scouring the dealers in a still slushy Scotland , I came across a 1985 B-plate model on offer for £4995 at Alex Ritchie Motors of 43 Nithsdale Street — south of the Clyde in real Taggart country . |
| 19 | Beyond yet another bridge , for Victorian ingenuity had been hard at work here , I came across a torrential waterfall labelled ‘ salmon weir , . |
| 20 | Walking by the riverbank , I came across a W.W. Jacobean neighbourhood of mellow terraced shops , pubs and houses . |
| 21 | On leave in Ireland during a ceasefire in the 1976 fighting , I came across a pile of back issues of the National Geographic Magazine in a Dublin bookshop . |
| 22 | ‘ I came across a reference in Randolph Ash . |
| 23 | The next morning , when I had been on the move for half an hour , I came across a shack to the left of the road , looking like two different sized cartons glued together side by side . |
| 24 | On the same holiday I came across a sandy bank in a patch of sun — except that the patch was a dazzling blue . |
| 25 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 26 | I came across a very brief report about my mother 's death . |
| 27 | But my hunch proved right , I came across a few likely looking names and phone numbers and eventually I found a breeder in Bow , East London , who had several barn owls , all brothers and sisters , who would be the perfect training age for me . |
| 28 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 29 | At Folkstumyren I came across a pair of bluethroats which were busy catching insects , sometimes flitting up into the air like a flycatcher to intercept craneflies . |
| 30 | Herscovici says : ‘ At a Foundation in Madrid , I came across a fake Magritte which had been slipped into into an official exhibition so that it could be reproduced in the catalogue without my permission in order to achieve legitimacy . |