Example sentences of "came [adv] and [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last time we went the , the came on and declared that it was your birthday and wished you a very happy birthday and you were standing up there , bouncing up and down . |
| 2 | Bilal came down and said that Tom would be next , which was , of course , meaningless . |
| 3 | Half-way through one driver came in and said that the Minister for Human Resources had spent half an hour longer than he had agreed . ’ |
| 4 | Potter came in and concluded that his chief was absorbed in profound celebration ; he put the coffee on the table and crept out … |
| 5 | ‘ I locked the lecture-room , came downstairs and checked that there was no one in the ground-floor rooms , then locked up the building . ’ |
| 6 | That waitress just came over and said that we were in love . ’ |
| 7 | Peter said it was a good game when they came home and found that Woking had won five nil they thought they 'd chosen the wrong one . |
| 8 | The sleeping-car attendant came back and announced that by great good fortune he had an empty berth for which the occupant had unaccountably not appeared . |
| 9 | ‘ One farmer came back and said that employing 300 Kenyans cost one-fifth as much as weedkiller , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ She came back and said that the people had arrived for my early morning meeting . |
| 11 | It used the allocation , came back and said that its original estimate was entirely wrong and it required an extra £48 million — the original estimate was £48 million out . |
| 12 | I came back and saw that most Vietnamese workers do n't care about politics . |
| 13 | The ‘ sheriff ’ came out and said that Customs wanted us to fly to Darwin for clearance , but we begged for mercy and he let us stay and gave us a ride to a lodge in the police wagon . |
| 14 | Yet when Carr realised that everything was not going quite his way , he came out and declared that ‘ the GAA had made an enemy in him . ’ |
| 15 | Just as she was about to leave he came out and complained that he could n't find the tin-opener . |