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

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1 Having a bit of a rest in the winter , I was able to relax a little bit more , so I think I came over a lot fresher than I normally do for the start of the season .
2 It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster .
3 The night shift volunteer was standing next to me getting ready to come on to the phones and as I came off a call he started to chat to me .
4 It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent .
5 I came down the slope , trying not to smirk .
6 and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee , he was having a great time with that , I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte , no , no , I do n't like it I want the house , meaning the garage , so I 've gone out now and bought her a circus
7 And it was Sunday afternoon when I came out the pit the next time .
8 So I came out the pit and went into Cripps and bought a lorry .
9 Two of them came round a while ago and they said , ‘ Our pigeon 's on your roof , miss , can we go up your house and get it down through your loft ? ’
10 Hot , bitter tears rolled down her cheeks , and with them came back the noise of the street .
11 But she almost turned and fled as she came round a corner and found herself face to face with Guido .
12 Yes we used to go to see her , and she came up a couple of times .
13 Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path .
14 She had caught his eye as she came down the aisle .
15 But Tallis , as she came down the bank , could see that he was frightened .
16 But when she heard her children were being maltreated she came back a year later and fought to have them returned to her .
17 She came back a week or so later to Farnham , plastered , in the literal sense , and indomitable .
18 ‘ And when she came back the situation was reversed ?
19 Just as she came out the council she said I I 'm just outside the council offices ringing you .
20 ‘ As we came up the trackway of your house , Sir John , we found a Hand of Glory with a lighted candle in its fingers . ’
21 They were just there , suddenly , as we came over a hill and saw a river below us .
22 Late in the morning Valeria suggested we should all go down and have breakfast , and as we came down the staircase we saw to our horror that her mother was waiting for us at the bottom .
23 Well I saw that pai , I saw the shop as , as we came down the Ayleston Road , near the terminus .
24 It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered .
25 Everything that I do The other night when we came back the streets were deserted .
26 Cos you remember we came round , we came back the night before the traction engine rally cos I did n't have time to get organized .
27 " They came up the streets towards the station , crowds of people , young men .
28 Danish invaders found their way to Lough Neagh between AD 849 and AD 1014 but whether they came up the Bann is uncertain .
29 There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind .
30 As they came round a bend they met a lorry overtaking a tractor .
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