Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] a [noun sg] came " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 2 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 3 | ‘ I went back to my room and soon a girl came with flat blonde hair , sickly-looking . |
| 4 | Ruth heard music in the distance and then a boat came into view , moving eerily across the limpid waters . |
| 5 | and enter Scotland and a lot and then a lot came back from Scotland down to North and there was |
| 6 | Tea hurriedly went through some of its stages , and unfortunately An Adventure came up again . |
| 7 | But soon a man came up behind her , a man with a pot of red paint in his hand . |
| 8 | She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came . |
| 9 | But then an answer came . |