Example sentences of "came [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A faint glow came through an opaque window which must belong to one of the cloakrooms . |
| 2 | Monica Drinkwater 's attack came during an emotional debate on economic policy at the party 's conference in Brighton . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The publication of Humani Generis came as an especial shock to the Catholic world because the theological developments it criticized had passed largely unnoticed . |
| 5 | ‘ I understand that you were distraught beyond measure , I understand that Mark 's letter came as an almighty shock . |
| 6 | Thus , the decision by the county at the end of the following season not to re-engage him and Garner came as an enormous surprise and caused a furore ; from the emotional angle it was poor reward for years of devoted service , but rationally , since the opportunity to sign up Martin Crowe of New Zealand , who promised so much , had either to be taken or lost , it was a sensible move . |
| 7 | The verdict came as an immense relief for Mr Major , who put his job on the line over the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 8 | The United States decision in July 1990 to withdraw its support from the seating of the rebel National Government of Cambodia at the UN and to enter into dialogue with Vietnam came as an immense shock to the ASEAN members [ see p. 37598 ] . |
| 9 | The white man , as is his habit , acted as though it all came as an immense surprise , and having registered his perturbation at the undamned reservoirs of fury from those previously ‘ unheard ’ , called for reconciliation and mutual forgiveness and understanding . |
| 10 | The economic reforms came after an eight-day debate , the most heated in the short history of the half democratically-elected Sejm . |
| 11 | The decision by Timothy Renton , Minister of State , came after an urgent representation from the London office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees on Wednesday . |
| 12 | It came like an electric shock . |
| 13 | In the past , people have destroyed their documents on aeroplanes and in one case someone came with an outdated passport . |
| 14 | His Catechism of a Revolutionary is a classic in the tactics of terrorism , and it came with an agreeable click of fittingness to learn recently that this work earned a place on the bookshelves of Stalin . |
| 15 | It is not a desirable place to paint pictures in , inside the Cuiraing : the silence and the grandeur awes you ; and the sheep above where we stood had an uncomfortable habit of loosening with their feet stones that came with an ominous crash near to us , and some shepherd lads , much less excusable , thought it good fun to threaten to , and likewise to perform , throwing stones near us . |
| 16 | Each set of notes came with an attached exercise and at his behest I set to , to analyse squares of numbers , using keys to turn them into the letters that described either thaumaturgical entities , or else even the tetragrammaton itself . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Aye , again on the grounds that a legitimate nephew of King Henry came before an illegitimate son . |
| 19 | And I forget which of my old colleagues it was who was canvassing , blue rosette ablaze , in a particularly Labour-dominated council estate in Sheffield , when he came upon an elderly voter planting primroses by the door . |
| 20 | Eventually we came upon an empty railway shed with a paved road and a line of street lamps along one side . |
| 21 | Soon after 9 p.m. rally drivers came upon an unexpected road hazard as they steered into the narrow twisting lane — a barricade of wooden benches and almost a dozen seated householders ! |
| 22 | Once they came upon an irregularly-shaped room as wide as the grazing meadow on the east bank of the Slow Brochet ; eleven passages led from it . |
| 23 | It came in an exquisite Spode tea service , with a silver sugar-bowl and a plateful of hot buttered toast with Gentleman 's Relish or honey , on a large melamine tray designed , Roland saw , to slot into the arms of the wheelchair . |
| 24 | He came in an open-necked shirt and walked to the makeshift podium without a very obvious security presence . |
| 25 | News of the changed disposal plans came in an internal University memo leaked to The Guardian newspaper . |
| 26 | The man 's voice came in an intimate whisper . |
| 27 | But the inspiration finally came in an unlikely form . |
| 28 | There seems little doubt that all over the country inventive minds were working on the problem in different ways but the solution came in an unusual fashion . |
| 29 | Its arguments may raise a smile now , but it came from an experienced pastor to an intelligent and dedicated missionary , and was clearly directed to some of the major preoccupations of Germanic and other pagans . |
| 30 | Mihály Zichy ( 1827–1906 ) came from an ancient family of Hungarian counts . |