Example sentences of "came [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Swan was first to the ball when Townsend 's penalty came off the right-hand post and Swan was also in support of the stand-off when he touched down for his first try . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman , who has a special interest in this matter , must be aware that the first information on the Iraqi contract came through a leaked letter and not directly from UKAEA . |
| 3 | They came through a rugged training session yesterday and were named in a Test side that contains nine Englishmen , four Scots and only one from Ireland and Wales . |
| 4 | Cos , they sold out the , that 's all now and I think came from Yarmouth , they used , they used to have a big place at Yarmouth and we came through the other week and er I see their sheds are nearly all empty now , there . |
| 5 | Early morning summer light came through the barred window and lay on his uncovered back , making a checkered pattern with his freshly healed wounds . |
| 6 | Then a little light came through the uncovered spyhole , a flickering , surreptitious light . |
| 7 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
| 8 | His neighbour came through the front door of the house to the right . |
| 9 | As he came through the front door he had picked up his post . |
| 10 | The four healthy children lay sound asleep , their breaths coming and going almost visibly in the light from the street lamp that came through the flowered cotton curtains . |
| 11 | Czechs in Cleveland to learn how to cope with job losses WAYS in which the North-East came through the industrial upheaval of the '70s and '80s could prove an invaluable blueprint for revival for the people of Czechoslovakia . |
| 12 | The faint but unmistakable sound of an outraged hen came through the closed drawing-room windows . |
| 13 | ‘ Come in ! ’ voice came through the solid oak door . |
| 14 | Colonel Bowers was in his flying-suit by three o'clock and ready to go , when the long black limousine from the Pentagon 's New York bureau came through the main gate . |
| 15 | When the daily help came through the back door and into the kitchen , she found Beth sitting at the table , breathless and dishevelled . |
| 16 | Tom O'Neill came through the revolving doors on a blast of icy air and stepped out on the other side into a blanket of almost oppressive warmth . |
| 17 | Make-up could work wonders , though , and she was just putting the finishing touches to her lipstick when Travis came through the connecting door . |
| 18 | Later , the woman came through the driving snow , staggering before the howling wind , huddled in upon herself . |
| 19 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
| 20 | A chill wind came through the open doors to the balcony . |
| 21 | Light came through the stained-glass skylights , which were predominantly green and blue , and through a wall of windows of clear glass that held the faintest hint of turquoise . |
| 22 | A faint glow came through an opaque window which must belong to one of the cloakrooms . |
| 23 | The biggest crisis in her until then trouble-free career came during a recording session in her home town . |
| 24 | Despite the fact that the victory came during the fasting month of Ramadan , tons of sweets were distributed by people from all walks of life starting with school children and ending with industrial tycoons . |
| 25 | Monica Drinkwater 's attack came during an emotional debate on economic policy at the party 's conference in Brighton . |
| 26 | The accusation came during an angry row over a newspaper story which claimed Anne had put off her wedding to Naval Commander Tim Laurence — and called Princess Di and Fergie ‘ two silly girls ’ . |
| 27 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 28 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 29 | Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance . |
| 30 | Viv Richards , who came for a quiet life , is left privately shaking his head and wondering whether there will ever be a perfect world — and a county side blissfully , permanently free from controversy . |