Example sentences of "[adv] came [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The redundancies apparently came as a complete surprise to USL staff who were assured before Christmas that no jobs would be lost through the Novell deal . |
| 2 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 3 | Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again . |
| 4 | The original defections of Burgess and Maclean in 1951 naturally came as a great shock to the British establishment and were embarrassing because of the inept way MI5 handled the matter . |
| 5 | They left the marketplace for a maze of streets and eventually came to a large stone two-storeyed house with a timbered roof , its exquisite carved eaves jutting out over a small courtyard beneath . |
| 6 | There was a continual potential for conflict between the two cultures , which eventually came to a dramatic crisis in the San Antonio area . |
| 7 | He followed the widest of the paths northwards and eventually came to a deserted airfield . |
| 8 | We drove for miles through dense jungle and eventually came to a big pool which was maybe 150 metres square and 30 metres deep . |
| 9 | The labour camps , temperatures of 50 degrees below zero , a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak , barren permafrost , where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing . |
| 10 | The metopes presumably came from an earlier monument of the same city , not apparently a treasury but an open colonnade , perhaps a baldacchino to shelter but not conceal some large offering . |
| 11 | As Ian Brown , of Lee Moor Farm in Northumberland , noted : ‘ A fact that saddened me lately came from a recent survey which suggested that the average family business — not just farms but all family businesses — lasts only 25 years , which I guess is only a generation . |
| 12 | The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train began to slow down and soon came to a smooth stop . |
| 13 | All this soon came to an abrupt end . |
| 14 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 15 | But the inspiration finally came in an unlikely form . |
| 16 | The spur for development in tests usually came from a pressing practical need . |
| 17 | Allen cast around and within a few yards further came upon a man-made path , narrow and winding , but in frequent use . |
| 18 | Because we , even if we ever came to a final close if |
| 19 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 20 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 21 | It was a full day later before Schmidt had been able to form a coherent sentence , though his words still came in a low , wracked whisper . |
| 22 | They were hollowed-out places , but always came to a dead end . ’ |
| 23 | Australians were still the butt of English condescension but he clearly came from a different mould from his fellow Australian Barry Humphries ' Private Eye creation , Barry McKenzie . |
| 24 | I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive . |
| 25 | We read ‘ Glory in the church ’ ; it 's a phrase that ca n't be found elsewhere in the New Testament ; when the Ephesian Christians heard that phrase when the letter was read out , it probably came as a great surprise . |
| 26 | Alastair Campbell , for example , thought that a verse supposedly from Thord Kolbeinsson 's Eiríksdrápa , which connects Earl Eric of Lade with the battle of Ringmere in 1010 , is a fabrication , and that lines about an attack on Norwich said by the thirteenth-century Knytlinga Saga to be from Ottar the Black 's Knútsdrápa probably came from a different poem on Swegen , who is known to have sacked the town in 1004 . |
| 27 | From the start of his authority to investigate subversives , in 1939 , the pattern was set : his first raids caught an unlovely bunch of anti-Semites , whose inspiration and weapons both came from a paid FBI informant . |
| 28 | The two men , who both came from a small village in Lithuania , almost hero-worshipped the handsome Italian with his love of liquor and of women . |
| 29 | How the thing finished is not recalled ; but if it was true to life , it simply came to an abrupt and inexplicable halt . |
| 30 | We here came to a central issue in all our discussions . |