Example sentences of "[noun] came [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reassurance for the owners of timber-frame homes came from the director-general of the NHBC , who argued : |
| 2 | A confrontation came to a head on Nov. 18 between Benazir Bhutto , the former Prime Minister and leader of the opposition Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) and of the People 's Democratic Alliance ( PDA ) coalition , and the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif . |
| 3 | The reply came as a whisper . |
| 4 | Dawson 's reply came from a distance ; he was holding the phone away from his mouth . |
| 5 | The reply came from an under-secretary who said that the present funding was considered adequate and the commercial undertaking would be ill-advised . |
| 6 | So he writes it down and everybody writes bits about what 's happened , and thus eventually a few questions were asked and reply came from the Super . |
| 7 | No reply came from the tower . |
| 8 | When Trestle came to the Festival for the first time in 1986 , they were just beginning to make their name , and were virtually unknown in Belfast . |
| 9 | But we saved the Queen 's fair fame , and to Rudolf himself the fatal stroke came as a relief from a choice too difficult : on the one side lay what impaired his own honour , on the other what threatened hers . |
| 10 | Although many of the better-paid staff , especially those with engineering expertise , were brought in from all over the country , much of the local labour came from the town of Bridgwater , ten miles away by road . |
| 11 | The emergence of the New Kylie came in the autumn of 1989 . |
| 12 | The first official and public indication that the Soviet Union was seeking large-scale Western aid came at a press conference between Gorbachev and Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on May 22 , when Gorbachev made plain his desire to attend the July G-7 meeting . |
| 13 | The imperial system of government was well established by the time Barbarossa came to the throne , with the established chain of command already described . |
| 14 | Tension between Iraq and Kuwait came to the world 's attention in mid-July when Saddam Hussein launched a fierce attack on the policy of those Gulf states , principally Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , whose over-production of oil he blamed for a corresponding slump in world oil prices . |
| 15 | Austin Farrer came on a visit to Lincoln and reported that Ramsey was a great man in the college and held his audiences spellbound and was less mad . |
| 16 | According to the author , the princess 's lowest ebb came with the publication earlier this year of the so-called Dianagate tape — allegedly the recording of an intimate telephone conversation with her longtime friend James Gilbey . |
| 17 | According to the author , the Princess 's lowest ebb came with the publication earlier this year of the so-called Dianagate tape allegedly the recording of an intimate telephone conversation between the Princess and her long-time friend , James Gilbey . |
| 18 | First , the increased weight of demands came at a time when the actual problems thrust before government were not only more complex and intractable , but were also more interdependent — solve one ( say , inflation ) and you only caused another ( rising unemployment ) . |
| 19 | No weapon , no footprints , no fingerprints , all the bits of fibre caught on bushes came from the deceased 's clothes . ’ |
| 20 | Paramedics came to the house in Thompson Street , Darlington , and struggled to revive her but it was too late . |
| 21 | I had taken with me my copy of Pascal 's Pensées and by a nice irony came upon a passage which echoed the motto for the ‘ new thinking ’ of János Kádár : |
| 22 | Indeed , the first official use of the term came in the Housing and Town and Country Planning Acts of 1909 and 1919 . |
| 23 | It was recognised by the defendants that when the employment of an agent came to an end it was likely that there would be in existence a number of policies which would have been effected during the period of the plaintiff 's employment in respect of which commission would normally be paid in future years if the employment had continued . |
| 24 | The Fawcett family were very brave about it when the telegram came from the War Office . |
| 25 | The big break came via a relative who worked for Crawford Productions , then Australia 's biggest producer of television drama . |
| 26 | I waited until a break came in the pain , and then pinned a healthy smile on my face and told her I felt perfectly well . |
| 27 | His stepdad came into the shed . |
| 28 | As soon as the gentlemen came into the room and coffee was served , she became the centre of attention . |
| 29 | She knew that Richard came from the castle and understood that his family was the family to which all the others deferred , but now instead of intimidating her Richard 's status seemed to impart a sense of protection . |
| 30 | A tractor and trailer was being driven across the bridge , when a wheel came off the tractor and it veered through the stone parapet . |