Example sentences of "i came [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came here under a lot of pressure , knowing I had to succeed , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I came here for the history . |
| 3 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 4 | I came here at the instigation of your letter , believing myself to have secured a position . |
| 5 | I mean , I came here with a plan . |
| 6 | I came here with a companion in 1954 , determined to conquer this graceful peak and thus set the seal on my mountaineering achievements but , to our shame , we shirked the last thirty yards to the summit cairn in growing apprehension of an instant demise . |
| 7 | ‘ And why on earth should you automatically assume that I came here with the express purpose of blackmail ? ’ |
| 8 | But no one 's touched that room to my knowledge , since I came here as a bride in 1929 . |
| 9 | I came here as a company stage manager from Oxford playhouse company . |
| 10 | ‘ I came here as a bride , ’ said my mother , and Lili giggled . |
| 11 | I came here as a Chilean refugee . |
| 12 | She said that if I came here to the island and said I was sorry you 'd welcome me with open arms . ’ |
| 13 | I came away with the impression that , long-term , the Koi hobby has nothing to fear as long as people like Ray stay in business . |
| 14 | I came away with the feeling that work such as Hodgson 's , which begins to transform the rough material of personal experience and emotion into a universal , achieves an enduring self-sufficiency which work that is essentially referential can not . |
| 15 | Instead , I came away with an old copy of Prescott 's Conquest of Peru . |
| 16 | In the end I went along and scraped a pass , largely to avoid the horrendous scenes with my parents that would ensue if I came away from the temple of learning empty-handed . |
| 17 | ‘ I was pretty saddened when I came away from the doctors . |
| 18 | " What 's the matter , James ? " he asked as I came away from the phone . |
| 19 | I came away from the Oxford seminar with a clear idea in my mind about what I should do to stimulate discussion on this subject in Wales . |
| 20 | I should say that I , I came away from the last meeting with an enormous list of things to do , and I have n't managed to do them all , but they 'll emerge as we go through , erm , developments Perth , Perth if inter interrupt me |
| 21 | I came away from the workshop with ideas for introducing total quality into education , plus curiosity about the practicality of BS 5750 procedures in a school . |
| 22 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
| 23 | Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them . |
| 24 | And I came right off the wave . ’ |
| 25 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 27 | When I came round from the chloroform I was in bed . |
| 28 | ‘ When I came round after the operation I asked the doctors if they would let me have the screws . |
| 29 | It was with this in mind that I came joyously across the story of Stephen Eastham this week . |
| 30 | I came up into the air gasping deeply , panting , aching lungs swelling , feeling a rush of suppressed terror , clinging onto the curtain in a shaky state . |