Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [pers pn] came " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary 's bare feet made no sound he could have picked up and she came right to his door . |
| 2 | As he drew closer and they came face to face , she drew herself up and eyed him coldly . |
| 3 | There was you know little firms like that and yet everybody was in , nobody nobody would ever try and er and er and er and escape paying their contribution , but there was a law you could n't join a union till you were sixteen , that was the law then in then , but er when this strike came back and we came on strike in December , er we lads who was under age joined the union , they give us all six bob a week , the union did . |
| 4 | And there it was , in the late nineties , he was adding up his pence and his shillings and the odd pound or two here and there , these were his costs of making the pictures that he was making in those days , and then when you turned over and we came to nineteen hundred , nineteen hundred and one , nineteen hundred and two , erm the figures had broadened and under the pounds into three figures and then into four . |
| 5 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 6 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 7 | Cos he went over lovely , he was sitting there and I came up |
| 8 | One thing I thought was nice was that one little boy , was more noisy than the others but it started thundering once and he came and held my hand as he was scared . |
| 9 | but we did n't have many of them , we only had about two or three come up and they came from Australia |
| 10 | it re and he came back after eight years of of not working there and he came in hello Barbara ! |