Example sentences of "it came [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been a real train the sound would have faded off towards the west — away from the hostel instead , and we could now hear the engine as well ; it came towards the hostel over the non-existent harbour branch and clattered to a stop , perhaps at one of the wharves . |
| 2 | Also , we ordered the armature , it came through a couple of days ago , we put it , but it 's going the opposite direction . |
| 3 | It came through the door . |
| 4 | It came through the door leading to the boarders ' annexe . |
| 5 | All I can remember is an object hitting me in the head as it came through the window and glass shattering everywhere . |
| 6 | Big snake , it came through the fence . |
| 7 | Thus , despite all the effort he had devoted to the cause of German unification , he opposed it when it came through the force of Prussian arms and Bismarckian diplomacy . |
| 8 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 9 | you see , so , after that shop it came over the tannoy me and Elaine |
| 10 | In the context above , Mr Lorry did not perceive the actual change itself as it came over the doctor . |
| 11 | It came with no endowment to meet the cost of conversion . |
| 12 | In all three works it seemed a little too often as if you simply had to programme in the appropriate music , push the right button , and out it came with a pat brilliance , with an irreproachable but impersonal expertise . |
| 13 | ‘ It came with a job-lot of stuff I bought from a demolition firm , ’ Sam explained without stress . |
| 14 | It came with a speech at the Eastbourne Congress by Dr. R. Conrad of the Medical Research Council and Department of Experimental Psychology , Oxford , about his research into the effectiveness of deaf education . |
| 15 | After five days it came with the speed of a poltergeist hurling a vase : Robson is the long time presenter of the Metro Radio programme Night Owls , ghosts strut their stuff at night , the two make a neat marketing ploy . |
| 16 | ‘ I think Dieter 's been a bit naughty , ’ Husband puffed , ‘ but it was a direct follow-up to an incident abroad , so you might say it came under the doctrine of ‘ hot pursuit ’ . ’ |
| 17 | The expression " transfer of assets " , the House of Lords held , was not to be infused with any different meaning by virtue of the fact that it came under the definition of " settlement " . |
| 18 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 19 | In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Whilst these proposals were still before the King , the army marched on London and expelled the leading Presbyterians from the House of Commons so that it came under the control of the Independents . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend was kind enough to tell me in answer to a question on the third problem , asking him whether he would make the east-west A427 a trunk road , that it came under the county council 's responsibility for bypasses . |
| 23 | Shortly afterwards it came under the aegis and support of the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries ( SCONUL ) and the scheme assumed the title of the SCONUL Tape-Slide Group . |
| 24 | We were just drunk as usual , but everybody was arguing with each other and it came to a head and we had a fight . |
| 25 | it came to a head in a charred violet point … |
| 26 | It came to a head when the couple were having a night out in Ross on Wye , where they lived . |
| 27 | And last night it came to a head with Mr MacSharry privately blaming his interfering boss for his decision to stand down , and Commission sources confirming that he felt badly let down by M Delors . |
| 28 | It came to a halt just a couple of yards away , and her stomach gave an uncomfortable lurch as the door opened and Eleanor got out . |
| 29 | The tram back to Chelsea seemed to take for ever , but at last it came to a halt on the corner of Chelsea Terrace . |
| 30 | I asked her to meet the press off the back of the BAC One-Eleven as it came to a stop in front of us . |