Example sentences of "[pron] came [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know how I came through the next few months — but , yes , I do . |
| 2 | ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school . |
| 3 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 4 | When I came to the last two years of school , I wanted to specialize in mathematics and physics . |
| 5 | A quiver of anguish passed along my spine as I came to the last dish . |
| 6 | Then when I came to the third I did not like it . |
| 7 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 8 | Then I came to the fourth floor landing and Toby 's door opened and there he was . |
| 9 | When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer . |
| 10 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 11 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 12 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 13 | On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) . |
| 14 | Atkins felt that Peterborough 's first goal , which came in the first minute of the second-half , should have been disallowed because Cambridge goalkeeper John Vaughan had the ball kicked out of his hands by sliding Peterborough midfielder John McGlashan . |
| 15 | Certainly Hearts created precious few chances , and the fact their goal , which came in the 20th minute , stemmed from a blunder must have proved hard for United to swallow at a ground where they last won in 1985 . |
| 16 | Rosslyn Park , going backwards constantly and finding their defence overrun , inevitably conceded penalties , the first of which came in the fourth minute . |
| 17 | At Doncaster Mr Frisk , who came to the last fence in front in the Hennessy Gold Cup , should gain compensation in the Constant Security Handicap Chase , and Red Ruddel can gain his fourth consecutive victory of the season . |
| 18 | The two who came in the first place . |
| 19 | She came to the last button and , plucking up all her courage , slipped the dress off her shoulders and let it drop to the floor . |
| 20 | And when she came to the last name only the fact that she was already frozen saved her from betraying herself . |
| 21 | Her eyes widened as she came to the last paragraph , and she stared at it before abruptly crumpling the paper and stuffing it back into her case . |
| 22 | Everything seemed to be plain sailing now as we came to the 17th . |
| 23 | When we came to the third hole I thought we were going to need some of that cushion . |
| 24 | Now we came to the 18th . |
| 25 | ‘ As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’ |
| 26 | As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’ |
| 27 | But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us . |
| 28 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 29 | It was a pleasant walk along well-trodden paths through Birbeck Woods beyond which we came upon the first set of workings in Gunnerside Gill : the remains of dressing floors belonging to the Old Gang Mining Company . |
| 30 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |