Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] came " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the spawning the Scats paid no attention to the eggs , being gently nudged away if they came too close . |
| 2 | Lapsing into silence , she sipped her now unwanted coffee and only looked up when he came to sit opposite her , a large plate of bacon and eggs before him . |
| 3 | Mary 's bare feet made no sound he could have picked up and she came right to his door . |
| 4 | There was just the erm Broomfield Staffield Tanys Dell erm Glebelands and that was the all the area that was built up when we came here . |
| 5 | ‘ She 'd hold out for a while but it would always be made up after he came back with the roses . |
| 6 | Not wanting anyone to see her dress from behind — the hem had come undone and she was n't wearing stockings — she had hung back as they came through the doors of the Grill Room . |
| 7 | Erm in fact telephones , I mean talking back to nineteen forties and fifties , very few people had telephones , and it was n't uncommon in , in those days on fire engines , where , I know at Salisbury we did this , we took a bike and put it on the back of a fire engine , and if you were the youngest you were told , send the stock message back , or the informative message back , and find the telephone , and you pedalled and find the telephone , and , and you 'd get told off when you came back , why you were n't quicker about taking it . |
| 8 | The group 's concern with rocketry was hardly respectable in those days : its existence was tolerated mainly because it came under the wing of Theodore van Karman , one of the world 's greatest aerodynamicists . |
| 9 | She got off the ground so quickly with her public relations it was squashed almost before it came to life . " |
| 10 | Charles had his own household to deal with his affairs which he had brought together when he came out of the forces . |
| 11 | He watched the two girls , who , to do them justice , thanked him very nicely , they were n't so badly brought up when you came to think about it , approach the shop by the side door . |
| 12 | The whole world knows that the house was never run right until you came . |
| 13 | Everything has gone right since we came here , ’ said Denis who now has Wayne Swinscoe as a neighbour and occasional drinking partner . |
| 14 | The Irish may have scored socially but they came a poor second on the field because , says DON CAMERON , they were not prepared for the speed and the impact of the N.Z. game . |
| 15 | But it was a damp , grey morning , and they had n't gone far before it came on to rain . |
| 16 | But no — your relationship with Hugh , ’ he accused , ‘ was finished long before you came down here . ’ |
| 17 | Even allowing for this , the surface was left just as it came out of the mould . |
| 18 | I was allowed to give the impression that there was a helluva lot more going on behind her facade , but again that was taken out when we came to do the episode again for the version seen on Television . ’ |
| 19 | Both these measures were adopted by the Liberals and implemented soon after they came to power . |
| 20 | It was essential that the candidate 's appearances were carefully staged so that he came across in a favourable light before the television cameras . |
| 21 | Plays about the fractured consciousness of working-class kids who had fought their way through the old class system , emerged on top , and still felt dissatisfied , still realizing that nothing had changed back where they came from , or where they had arrived . |
| 22 | She must have changed radically since she came to France , a carefree young woman writing home enthusiastic letters about her life in the sun . |