Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone else came into the room and sat down on a plain wooden chair to watch him struggle . |
| 2 | He was well isolated from his colleagues : nobody ever came over here uninvited . |
| 3 | Nobody ever came into Frankie 's room , not even his parents . |
| 4 | But nobody ever came into the woods to shake their finger in my face and lay down the law , the way they did with Gittel in the dorf . |
| 5 | To Nigel 's disappointment , nothing ever came of these pick-ups . |
| 6 | There was talk of Minton in addition illustrating a book for Elek on South London but nothing ever came of this . |
| 7 | We made lots of plans , but nothing ever came of them . |
| 8 | Shortly after this Marty Stone , our second engineer , and I re-enacted the whole thing for the benefit of two Daily Mirror journalists who were supposed to be writing an article about the work of the Cutter Service , but nothing ever came of this . |
| 9 | It was a room no-one ever came into , except the dead woman 's husband , who visited it religiously every Sunday morning before Mass , locking himself in for an hour , while , Ellie guessed , he dusted and tidied the shrine he had created , and prayed for the soul of the one departed . |
| 10 | ‘ Nothing further came from the ring until the last few weeks of the war . |
| 11 | Villagers said that none ever came at this time of year . |
| 12 | Of course there was a very large element of luck involved , but unless or until something better came along it was the only option she had . |
| 13 | ‘ No one ever came to the gigs in Holland , but those that did were usually out of their heads . |
| 14 | No one ever came to the Evans 's house to visit . |
| 15 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 16 | The only food on the menu that was Iranian was the caviar ; almost everything else came from France . |
| 17 | In the end , however , they and everyone else came to the less romantic conclusion that these objects were rotating neutron stars . |
| 18 | In the end , however , they and everyone else came to the less romantic conclusion that these objects , which were given the name pulsars , were in fact rotating neutron stars that were emitting pulses of radio waves because of a complicated interaction between their magnetic fields and surrounding matter . |
| 19 | John , with his weight , could get up momentum ( and courage ) enough to go hurtling and somersaulting off the end ; but everyone else came to a halt before the end , despite desperate jerks , which added no more than inches to the length of their slide . |