Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] came [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her case only came to light because the Health Authority meeting were mistakenly sent to the media . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you know that in the mythology of Earth the concept of freedom only came into existence after male and female ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil . |
| 3 | Laidlaw trailed off when a car suddenly came into view at the other end of the dimly lit street . |
| 4 | What psychoanalysis calls fantasies of infantile omnipotence thus came into play , together with other attributes of infantility — greed , paranoia , and an inability to follow complex rational arguments . |
| 5 | That promise would not be implemented if the Opposition ever came to power . |
| 6 | If he decided to report her , he could then use her lapse against her when the custody case finally came to court . |
| 7 | Alexia Lindsay says that most of the ephemera money just came from guide books and maps ; illustrated theatre and concert programmes ; and leaflets , all ephemeral things , apparently of no intrinsic value , but ‘ printed collectibles ’ as they are now called – and spelt ! |
| 8 | The small green envelope with the harp generally came with news of sudden death . |
| 9 | There are early mentions of the Portadown district in Latin documents about Papal taxation in 1296 and 1302 where the references are to Plebs Varren ( or , more familiarly , Ballyoran ) and the name ‘ Ballywarren al' Portadowne ’ is in the Ulster Inquisitions of 1609 but Portadown as a village only came into existence at the Plantation of Ulster . |
| 10 | The law reportedly came in response to recommendations by the United States authorities that controls on cash transactions similar to those in force in the USA should be adopted by other industrialized countries . |
| 11 | Despite this apparent vagueness there came into existence a body of individuals who may be referred to collectively as " the Left " , who were described as such by themselves and by their opponents and who acted together during the 1930s on most political issues . |
| 12 | Business usually came before pleasure to Steve as well but tonight was an exception . |
| 13 | The match really came to life when Smith put the visitors ahead five minutes before the scheduled break . |
| 14 | How , for instance , will a tournament such as the long-established US Pro Indoor tournament in Philadelphia , which was providing work for touring professionals long before the ATP even came into existence , benefit from such changes . |
| 15 | The cameraman then came on board and we left the quay ; we returned and he transferred to a motor boat to film us leaving the quay . |
| 16 | Sadly the planned improved Kick Off 2 cart never came to fruition . |
| 17 | The assault only came to light four days later , when he went to hospital for treatment . |
| 18 | ‘ But , unfortunately , this undesirable side to your brother 's character only came to light after I 'd hired you . |
| 19 | Men in regular employment found their real wages rising and many families moved out to the new housing estates , where evidence rapidly came to light of female depression arising primarily from physical isolation . |
| 20 | He suspected a young lawyer , a man whose name never came to light , even in the subsequent trial . |
| 21 | The science of physics really came to birth during the nineteenth century , though the process of convergence of separate physical sciences had perhaps begun when Galileo united celestial and terrestrial dynamics . |
| 22 | Lynette originally came from South Wales . |
| 23 | The dynamic forces within society and in the economy eventually came into conflict with a national polity which sought to avoid change . |
| 24 | Thus , when a series of Egyptian canopic jars of blue glass purporting to belong to the New Kingdom of the second millennium BC came under suspicion stylistically , they were analysed and found to contain high levels of lead and some arsenic , thereby confirming the doubts of the Egyptologists . |
| 25 | However , the promised Unix showcase at Comdex/Spring last week never came to fruition . |
| 26 | Part of the scandal only came to light when an eagle-eyed bank clerk spotted changes made to the bank destination information on an authorised cheque from Craven Grain . |
| 27 | News of the car smuggling scandal only came to light when Col. Luis Catalino González Rojas , commander of the fourth infantry division , defied orders and leaked evidence of the affair to the press . |
| 28 | A thought suddenly came to mind . |
| 29 | The inshore lifeboat only came into action to take the men ashore after one of our vessels was damaged . ’ |
| 30 | There seemed only one way for the Druids to prevent their imminent destruction , and that was to ensure that the army never came within reach of them ; this could only be achieved either by strong enough resistance in the mountains of north-west Wales or by a serious insurrection deep within the Province . |