Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] came [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A man she had never seen before or since came at night .
2 Blue Boar was dropped and replaced by Blue Steel Mk 1 , an inertially guided cruise missile with a range of 100 nautical miles that eventually came into service with the V Force in 1962 as part of Britain 's Independent Nuclear Deterrent .
3 And the biggest — the biggest godsend that ever came to Bass 's in the maltings was the endless belt .
4 ‘ He evolved in such a way that really came to life for me , ’ she says .
5 The two that immediately came to mind were running a charity and looking at whether any of her work was commercially viable which , since it is biotechnology-based , there was a good chance it would be .
6 They had made love before of course , a gentle , tentative , lovemaking that never came to fruition .
7 He received another , more peremptory , order and eventually came to Addis Ababa with ten thousand men .
8 So they drove round the outskirts of the Burleigh grounds , and eventually came to Cannonbury Road .
9 These various schemes proved problematic , however , and little came of Coxe 's ambitions , though they were briefly the subject of government interest in 1719 , when the question arose of the English title to this part of America .
10 It operated at 4,800bps and only came with DOS software , including a huge TSR program , over 200Kb in size .
11 This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial .
12 The curia was taking on a new role , as the centre of a vast network of appeals ; increasing numbers from near and far came to Rome in search of judgement .
13 He found an opportunity to work in the biochemistry laboratory at Cambridge , and then came to Florey .
14 Great dinosaurs were excavated from the American west while it was still ‘ wild ’ — early fossil-hunters had to contend with hostile Indians and sometimes came to blows over possession of the richest sites .
15 His successor but one , Wallia , made an attempt to lead his people across to Africa , but failed , and instead came to terms with the Roman leader Constantius , for whom he campaigned against the Vandals and Alans in Spain .
16 The spraying of the pesticide , Galecron , took place in 1976 , but only came to light during a recent Swiss TV programme .
17 A 1976 Granada television comedy project , ‘ All The Queen 's Men ’ , featured an all-gay Army unit but never came to fruition .
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