Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] came [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I just came over fields , I went along and followed a dyke , I turned left at the cafe , and then followed the first I saw going up . |
| 2 | It is the only gadget I have ever bought which actually got pushed under the settee where it gathered dust for several years before I really came to terms with it . |
| 3 | John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother . |
| 4 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 5 | erm The Queen did n't arrive till 1643 , she 'd been in the Netherlands raising money for the war effort , very successfully , because she finally came to Oxford with 2,000 foot and 1,000 horsemen , and erm a hundred wagons full of equipment as well as cannons and so on . |
| 6 | She did n't mean to , but she finally came to terms with the lateness of the hour with a yawn ; it was already happening before she could stop it . |
| 7 | Yet you still came across people who thought that South Africa would have won the last World Cup . |
| 8 | Another factor which made Russian foreign policy different in kind from that of the other Great Powers in 1880 was that , like Great Britain ( with whom she often came into conflict over them ) , she had great extra-European interests , both in the Far East and central Asia , where her territories , influence and commerce had been growing steadily for twenty years . |
| 9 | We almost came to blows . |
| 10 | There was no need for them to be imported to Britain since they mostly came from countries which were capable of developing their own waste-disposal programmes . |
| 11 | She could n't remember having actually been in one and anyway , they rarely came Past Mrs Parvis 's lodgings . |
| 12 | So letters were unearthly and invaluable , even if they only came from Barclays Bank . |
| 13 | Rounding the great bend opposite East Ord , they suddenly came into view of the English forces massing over a mile ahead . |
| 14 | A handiwork lesson where children were mechanically engaged in a task ( making brooms ) which all had already mastered before they ever came to school . |
| 15 | used to say , that cases used to come before her court in in Rochdale , and it was an absolute disgrace that they ever came to court . |
| 16 | They also came across Matisse sketches and two fake stamps imitating those of well known art experts . |
| 17 | Port Talbot had a large and vital steelworks , and moonlit nights almost always brought the Luftwaffe , but they also came in daylight . |
| 18 | Erm you 've got this , this business of threatening to attack the Serbian guns erm involves of course the decisions of individual governments whether or not they 're prepared to allow their forces to be involved , in the case of the British whether you 're going to allow your forces to get involved in it or not , but in international terms it involves both NATO , which has now passed a resolution saying unless certain conditions are met by a certain time , then there will be bombing of the Serbian positions but the people on the ground , whether they originally came from France or the Ukraine or from Britain , are in fact under the blue beret of the United Nations and the United Nations and NATO are not altogether , they 're not precisely together on this issue . |
| 19 | They often came into conflict with the local Transport Committees , formed from the local branches of the main transport unions , who correctly maintained that they alone had the right to issue permits for the movement of essential items which would otherwise have been held up in the dispute . |
| 20 | They invariably came from countries with no state pension arrangements for most people , so they could only start contributing towards their pensions once they arrived in Britain . |
| 21 | Later ex-Croydon staff found to their cost that if they accepted promotion , they then came under London Transport conditions , which followed closely UndergrounD Group practices . |
| 22 | They never came to terms with the speed of Dalian Atkinson ; neither did Dean Saunders . |
| 23 | Indeed , so violent was their hatred for one another that , in a much-quoted scene , they actually came to blows when they met by chance on the railway platform at Mukden . |
| 24 | He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar . |
| 25 | It only came to light today . ’ |
| 26 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 27 | He only came to life when she began unbuttoning his trousers , for as she touched his fly buttons , so he grabbed at his belt . |
| 28 | It literally came to light by accident when it fell out of a bag — it was God 's will , I suppose . ’ |
| 29 | He was potentially a useful ally and one with whom Edward needed to keep on good terms , if only because of his claim to the French throne ; but he proved unreliable and the expedition to Normandy was aborted when he suddenly came to terms with John II . |
| 30 | He constantly came across people who adored his father and he could n't think why they did when he was such a silly little man who made such a fool of himself . |