Example sentences of "[adv] came [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Griffiths far instance , only came across Lewis 's power of imaginative invention and insight of which I had no conception before .
2 So letters were unearthly and invaluable , even if they only came from Barclays Bank .
3 But the greatest praise perhaps came from William Wordsworth , who wrote the epitaph for Green 's gravestone .
4 She could n't remember having actually been in one and anyway , they rarely came Past Mrs Parvis 's lodgings .
5 He received another , more peremptory , order and eventually came to Addis Ababa with ten thousand men .
6 So they drove round the outskirts of the Burleigh grounds , and eventually came to Cannonbury Road .
7 He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar .
8 The full real anxiety of the position slowly came over Roland .
9 As the absent soldiers who had overstayed their leave mostly came from Ireland , he felt it was n't his fault .
10 These various schemes proved problematic , however , and little came of Coxe 's ambitions , though they were briefly the subject of government interest in 1719 , when the question arose of the English title to this part of America .
11 The best came from Zibello , a village near the po and not far from Fontanellato .
12 Her brother just came to Handley Farm to say she has n't gone back . ’
13 erm The Queen did n't arrive till 1643 , she 'd been in the Netherlands raising money for the war effort , very successfully , because she finally came to Oxford with 2,000 foot and 1,000 horsemen , and erm a hundred wagons full of equipment as well as cannons and so on .
14 When Samuel Reichmann finally came to Canada in 1958 , his son Paul was pecking out letters with two fingers on his typewriter in a dingy walk-up apartment on Palmerston Street where the bicycles and overshoes were left in the hallway .
15 and I ordered it in November , it finally came in February .
16 When the war finally came in September 1939 , the Left had almost burned itself out in frustration at Chamberlain 's foreign policy and amazement at the Hitler-Stalin pact .
17 Staff affected , who generally came from Marxism-Leninism , history , education , law , philosophy or economics faculties , would receive 70 per cent pay for six months .
18 The biggest component of these exports was textiles ; in March 1990 the USA had agreed to double Turkey 's quota of textile imports , and in May 1991 the EC increased by 30 per cent the quota for Turkish textiles entering the European market , in which around 40 per cent of imports already came from Turkey .
19 He usually came on Wednesday afternoons because Alan is almost always here then . ’
20 I asked Michael whether people ever came to England to study music .
21 In the end , several firms undertook penicillin production on a massive scale , but hardly any ever came to Florey himself for the clinical trials which he was desperate to extend .
22 And the biggest — the biggest godsend that ever came to Bass 's in the maltings was the endless belt .
23 Nobody ever came into Frankie 's room , not even his parents .
24 ‘ What historically important person ever came from Haiti ? ’
25 That 's if he ever came near Rose Cottage again .
26 A better piece of news for the Government yesterday came from Brussels , where there were indications that German and Spanish EC finance ministers were gradually swinging round to the Government 's view that the social chapter would lose jobs rather than protect them .
27 Meistersinger , then , still came before Tristan , but such distinctions were fast losing their significance .
28 The production of textiles was still going up ; in 1913 two-thirds of the whole world 's imports of cotton goods still came from Great Britain .
29 You know , he once , he once came from Brussels and he , he stop , in , in .
30 The model later came to Glasgow to pose for a life painting course .
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