Example sentences of "[pron] came [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He said , ‘ Someone came over the wall . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When someone came into the room he realised he had gone out in a sweet unconscious . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Someone came to the door . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Someone came to the shop and tried to sell him an old cross with paste stones in it . |
| 8 | ‘ Someone came by the house with a loudhailer but I could n't hear it properly . |
| 9 | We lined up in the final and I came off the bend well in the lead . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When I came off the phone she said , " Mum you 'd better sit down . |
| 12 | When I came off the phone . |
| 13 | I , I did n't I came off the council at that time and er I became the president of the gathering . |
| 14 | I came across a text which Christian Zervos had written in 1931 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Flicking through it , I came across a passage that described his psychotic breakdown . |
| 17 | ‘ I came across a reference in Randolph Ash . |
| 18 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 19 | Reading a pre-war book , I came across a reference to a ‘ clerihew , ’ which seems to be a kind of poem . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | As the sun began to go down , I wandered happily through the ruins until I came across a band of Timurid star-vaulting in one of the side chambers . |
| 22 | While I was puzzling over how to solve this problem , I came across a paper written by a Harvard-based neurobiologist , Larry Benowitz , in the early 1970s . |
| 23 | Glancing at a book in the Sale , I came across a piece by the famous chef Floris , about the secret of baking . |
| 24 | Whilst browsing through one of the local Christmas fairs , I came across a stein , made of pottery . |
| 25 | More recently still , I came across a letter written in English , by the Kaiser to an American friend , dated nineteen twenty-five , in which he writes , erm ‘ The Jews must be exterminated in a pogrom covering the whole world . ’ |
| 26 | The first was when I came across a picture of a heavily armoured man jousting with a naked woman , like knights at a tournament . |
| 27 | I came across a picture of Lloyd George as Chancellor of the Exchequer defaced . |
| 28 | I came across a number of cases where , in an attempt to increase their chances of employment , people had returned to college to try to get better qualifications . |
| 29 | ‘ One morning , shortly after returning from Africa to my home in rural Hampshire , I came across a group of deer standing in a field . |
| 30 | 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 . |