Example sentences of "[noun] came [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Antrim 's new president collected 220 votes in all as the finances of the Association came in for some healthy but heated discussion . |
| 2 | Overseas aid came in from many quarters ( including South Africa ) ; the landlocked Zambians brought in health officials from all their neighbours to try to limit the spread of the disease , which nevertheless struck Malawi . |
| 3 | The price-earnings ratio for the larger software companies was 24.7 against just 15.1 for smaller companies , while total market capitalisation to turnover came in at 1.24 for large and 1.11 for small companies . |
| 4 | A whole thicket of broom bushes came down in that slip , as you saw . |
| 5 | We invented the half-round string in 1978 , and then other manufacturers came out with similar strings . |
| 6 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 7 | In state primary schools the pupil-teacher ratio went down by 7.5 per cent and in state secondary schools there was a fall of 9.5 per cent , but in the same ten year period the pupil-teacher ratio in independent schools came down by 17.7 per cent . |
| 8 | The longcase clock in the hall began its silver chiming and Sally with Hawkins came back with several dusty port bottles . |
| 9 | In 1978 Allan concluded her survey of such research by writing : As a result different research came up with different findings so that the policy maker and practitioner ended up with long lists of poorly defined and sometimes contradictory characteristics . |
| 10 | This interview came out of several inspirational talks we had in June and was highlighted by his brilliant summer lecture to the Art and Architecture Society . |
| 11 | The boat came down between two waves , and Grace quickly got her oars out . |
| 12 | Greville Starkey 's riding of the horse came in for fierce criticism , but he made no mistake in Dancing Brave 's next race , drawing right away from Triptych to win the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park . |
| 13 | At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path . |
| 14 | Yet though the issue of unemployment exerted considerable impact upon British politics it does not appear that Britain 's political parties came up with much in the way of a meaningful solution to the problem . |
| 15 | The drifters came in to both piers and on a Saturday night , the village was a busy place . |
| 16 | Not to be outdone by their rival , Dottridge Brothers came up with some interesting designs too — from the simple ‘ Calais ’ in waxed elm , the ‘ Cairo ’ with its art nouveau grips , and the stolid ‘ Newman ’ in framed and panelled oak . |
| 17 | The top-placed battery car came in at eighth place . |
| 18 | Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds |
| 19 | But the words came out in pearly prose and the answers washed musically into tape-recorders and microphones and notebooks . |
| 20 | The words came out in sharp little machine-gun bursts . |
| 21 | Hence , when the news of ILG 's collapse came through on 8 March last year , Airtours simply had to send its negotiators back to buy up Intasun 's beds . |
| 22 | But before tape came along , the record industry came up with one more development — full frequency-range recording . |
| 23 | If the green light came on for either project , the paper would go straight to capitalization as a commercial company . |
| 24 | Harvey produced a key for the third and a red light came on over each lock . |
| 25 | Then , as she watched , a light came on in one of the upper rooms , and she shifted uneasily as she recognised Luke as he came to the window and looked out . |
| 26 | Subjects came up with well-organized fantasy sequences after being roused from some periods with high levels of EEG alpha and saccadic eye movements consistent with relaxed wakefulness . |
| 27 | — STRESSHOLME Golf Club came in for high praise yesterday after staging the Mizuno Tournament a major event for assistant professionals . |
| 28 | One thing that might be relevant to this is the fact that er one study came up with two different types of tag question , they call the two different tabs , aka tag question Modal tags and Effective tags . |
| 29 | The study came up with two main conclusions . |
| 30 | When the much more rigid ‘ composite ’ constructions came in in Victorian times one or two of the racing clippers were built with hulls of deliberately controllable rigidity . |