Example sentences of "[pers pn] came [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Hence the possibility of saying , when neither speaker nor addressee is at home : ( 83 ) I came over several times to visit you , but you were never there So we must append another clause to our gloss , namely : " or motion towards the home-base maintained at CT by either speaker or addressee " .
2 I came out seven years later , and the whole world had changed .
3 We had that one nil down and we thought that was it , there was and then they came back seven goals
4 When he came back several minutes later , he was still smiling .
5 He came back several times , quite convinced that only a little greater effort would supply him with the treat he had in mind .
6 ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed .
7 But he came back three days later crying his eyes out and begging me to forgive him , he looked like a helpless puppy .
8 Yes , well it 's Sunday night and they 're always fighting and that and he , he came out four rows of the bow wi , they were twelve inches square he kicked three of them in !
9 The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed .
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