Example sentences of "came [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came between them at speed , the air thunderous in her wings , which were more massive than any golden eagle 's he had yet seen or imagined . |
| 2 | He had been about four years old , and although he was younger than my brother , they always got on very well together and were heartbroken when the time came for them to part . |
| 3 | They had reached the hilly avenues of Lisbon when it occurred to her that he could be worried about how she might behave when the time came for them to part . |
| 4 | Sooner or later every Stevenson bill came to him for discount ; and every foreign transaction went via him . |
| 5 | Like many athletes Linford often came to him for advice . |
| 6 | ‘ 2(1) A person 's appropriation of property belonging to another is not to be regarded as dishonest — ( a ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that he has in law the right to deprive the other of it , on behalf of himself or of a third person ; or ( b ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew of the appropriation and the circumstances of it ; or ( c ) ( except where the property came to him as trustee or personal representative ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that the person to whom the property belongs can not be discovered by taking reasonable steps . |
| 7 | It explained the shape of the mystical experience that came to him in prayer . |
| 8 | Rose came to him by night now . |
| 9 | Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve . |
| 10 | Statistics came to her with ease , |
| 11 | Vagueness came to me with pregnancy . |
| 12 | Or , if someone came to me with arthritis of the fingers , I might ask him to ‘ think of your fingers lengthening ’ . |
| 13 | You came to me for help , remember ? |
| 14 | ‘ He came to me for help and those men murdered him ! |
| 15 | He came to me for stuff to forget all that . |
| 16 | Although I was still young , important people came to me for advice . |
| 17 | I was on the board of the bank then , and he came to me for advice about a takeover bid for his company . |
| 18 | The serpent god came to me in sleep and filled my belly . ’ |
| 19 | In London , the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) did pioneer work in developing a casework approach to the families who came to it for aid , helping them to solve their problems and help themselves rather than become dependent on charitable funds . |
| 20 | I came to it through climbing , having been active in mountaineering for years . |
| 21 | That is why I came to you for advice . ’ |
| 22 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 23 | ‘ People originally came to us for help with choosing wallpapers , paints , fabrics and curtains , but we realised we could give them a much broader service , ’ explains Jon . |
| 24 | The family wanted to dispute the will , and that 's when Angela — Miss Morgan — came to us for advice . |
| 25 | A man came to us for food recently , but he also needed spiritual counselling . |
| 26 | I came across it by chance a couple of months ago . |