Example sentences of "came [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The only Clough contribution came after just six minutes when he released Keane .
2 That came after just 4 minutes , but over the 90 minutes .
3 Clough 's only moment of inspiration came after just two minutes when he superbly threaded through a pass to utilise the blistering acceleration of White .
4 Hereford were bottom of the table when they kicked off on saturday … the lift they needed came after just seven minutes when top scorer Owen Pickard shot them into the lead …
5 The first one came after just 90 seconds .
6 ‘ It felt good and then the next one came after just 15 minutes .
7 The advice came after almost 50 burglaries from homes in and around Darlington in the last week .
8 The auction , which raised questions about the compensation of owners in the case of classification by the Monuments Historiques came after only two weeks after ‘ Corbeille de fleurs et fruits ’ by the same artist was sold at Drouot salerooms in Paris for the record sum of FFr7.5 million , far in excess of the £230,000 raised by Sotheby 's London for ‘ Still Life of Plums and Peaches ’ on 4 July , 1990 .
9 Jane was a Welsh woman from the Gower Peninsula , and there was something about her that my grandfather had not realized when he married her after my grandmother died so young : she came of very inbred stock , and had periodic mental lapses .
10 The share advance came against more poor trading news , with Jaguar 's US sales down 19.1 per cent last month .
11 Suffice to say we spent two fruitless days at Glastonbury and left as we came with only two scraps of information : first , Hopkins had been a monk at the abbey , and secondly had discovered his famous riddle there .
12 The touchdown came with only one second left when Michael Haynes jumped among a crowd of defenders to catch for the victory .
13 Disappointment came with only one grade 1 pass — in PE — and he returned to school to take three GCE ‘ O ’ levels .
14 The swords which had been clubbed or shortened into daggers for want of space to use them , now came into more orthodox play ; and the Welsh archers above on the hills were able to select their targets again without killing their own comrades , and worked with supercilious skill as long as there was light to slay by , and an Englishman still alive .
15 He came into still closer contact with the film industry when S. John Woods , as advertising director at Ealing Studios , invited him to design three posters .
16 ‘ He came in here one night with a very angry look , ’ said store boss Mike Brent .
17 ‘ Tel 1 us , ’ he continued , ‘ a butty of mine came in here last week , Sandy Cooper — you know Sandy from Chapel Lane ?
18 ‘ I can hardly believe so much came from just two schools — I hate to think what is lying in basements around the country , ’ Alistair said .
19 In a report delivered to Congress and the White House , the Fund says the contamination came from about 4,300 rounds of armour-piercing shells fired from tanks and aircraft .
20 Distorted faces peered from walls , agonised limbs writhed from the pavements , and pillars of stone groaned with voices that came from once human lips .
21 His friend vows steadfastness in friendship , but repeats his warning : his illness came from too much study , and he should n't do it again .
22 but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the
23 However , not quite normal , since the mouse will have four parents if the original two embryos came from quite different mothers and fathers .
24 The 18-year-old 's third Test century came from only 135 balls , and contained 14 fours : he hit two more before giving a catch to second slip , where Moody had earlier dropped Kapil Dev on 0 .
25 His fifty came from only 85 balls with a back-cut following a flowery on-driven four off Mallender .
26 While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands .
27 Tony Adams , the Arsenal skipper , says : ‘ Niall and I are great friends and have been since he came over here 10 years ago .
28 ‘ I came over there fifteen minutes ago and they had two of the buggers up again , and the Boche artillery was pounding shit out of our lines . ’
29 The three cases described by the Health Service Commissioner differed in detail , and in each the Commissioner came to slightly different conclusions .
30 The Supply of Petrol ( MMC , 1990 ) came to quite different conclusions regarding the superficially similar vertical arrangements in that industry .
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