Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pers pn] came [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I remember I do n't know how it came up once talking with Michel Leiris about Surrealism . |
| 2 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 3 | Oh you were , you were asked , somebody , I do n't know how it came about but erm if you found there was something going you went to do it . |
| 4 | and then getting all the the chassis numbers and that and welding them on to these stolen cars and Because what , you know , er Siobhan 's dad had a , bought a Montego and I do n't know how it came about but they discovered that erm it had a diff I mean it 's had a Maestro engine in it and it had this that and the other . |
| 5 | Yeah and I said to her erm , and she said I do n't know how it came out about her son in the fire service , oh I know she 'd just come back from Orlando , cos she 'd been off work having had a hysterectomy and she had three week 's leave due to her |
| 6 | Understanding how they came about is one of the challenges in this affair . |
| 7 | Do you know when we came back from |
| 8 | I did n't realize I did n't realize we had such a tight schedule and it reminded me when they got the plan , well I do n't know when it came through , but I opened it today and . |
| 9 | Instead she and Jennifer absent-mindedly watched aircraft taking off and landing on the company runway , then another thought suddenly struck her and she said , ‘ Do you know why he came back from Australia ? ’ |
| 10 | Amongst Robins 's acquaintances was Robert ( Bob ) Harris , whom Robins had got to know when he came down from Keele and worked with him on Circuit . |
| 11 | Yeah , but nothing was done so he came through to me |
| 12 | He had been singing , and when he came in he came in singing . |
| 13 | and Joan came over she came over about a week or so after , not , not much more than a week , and she sat there and she said oh well yeah I 'll have one of your , he asked if we 'd like a sweet , she said yeah I 'll have one dad . |
| 14 | mother 's house in because my father was in in the first world war so my mum had to go to live with my grandmother and er I was born there and er then when my father came home we came back to my mum came back to she ha got a little house somewhere I forget where it was street , does n't s it 's not there any more . |
| 15 | No he came back he came back after he had been at the meeting . |
| 16 | It was the men there who were aggrieved , who had had better wages as the war had ended and there was such a rush on , wages had gone up , but the once the boom was got over they came down . |
| 17 | I know alright it came out wrong . |
| 18 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 19 | You know when we came back the next Saturday as we 've gone through the front door , he 'd gone to the Little Chef for breakfast because there were n't any crocks left to u , to use |
| 20 | And I says er you know when I came back from Rio de Janeiro , she 'd been out as a kiddy then . |
| 21 | Then at least you can appreciate how it came about . ’ |
| 22 | " When you went away I came down here and read " |
| 23 | Martin decided to abseil from the peg but as he leant back it came out . |
| 24 | When asked how he came up with this figure he could n't quite s remember and his department did n't know , so if you put that to one side . |
| 25 | The first thing he saw when he came out of the station was an antiquated sign on a lamppost saying , ‘ Stand for 6 licensed hackney cabs ’ . |
| 26 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 27 | All she asked when he came back to tell her was , ‘ Who will tell Mrs Browning ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ What are they like ? ’ she asked when he came back to the table . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm cold , ’ she complained , ‘ I ca n't think why we came up here . ’ |
| 30 | As they climbed so the flak followed them ; as they dived so it came down to harry them . |