Example sentences of "[pers pn] came [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees . |
| 2 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 3 | And so hopefully you came back at the end of the day with quite a bou bag full on your bike , or a box it was , fitted in a carrier , full . |
| 4 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 5 | She came out at the head of the stairs and looked down . |
| 6 | Well we got to and there 's three weeks well when we came up at the beginning of May there was a notice on the main main twenty one which said |
| 7 | Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that . |
| 8 | ‘ I see , ’ said Doyle softly as they came out at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 9 | They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars . |
| 10 | It was a relief that he did not try to speak , and when they came out at the landscaped clearing with its wooden bench seat overlooking the water she had readied herself to speak first . |
| 11 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 12 | And he was extremely annoyed that evening when he came round at the interval . |
| 13 | Taskopruzade 's statement that he came back at the request of a repentant sultan is , of course , highly doubtful in view of the fact that his departure and return seem certain to have occurred in the reigns of different sultans . |
| 14 | ‘ He was in Singapore last week , but he came back at the weekend , I know , ’ she observed innocently , hating herself for needing to know so badly . |
| 15 | He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way . |
| 16 | Milwall have the lead that 's the important thing here it came over at the far side of the penalty area , had got up for it Ray and the Kennedy there was also a Middlesbrough foot in there . |