Example sentences of "came [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lights came on in the Mootwalk shops as one by one they began to open . |
| 2 | A few lights came on in the villages . |
| 3 | Suddenly , all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in . |
| 4 | Billy ( Nottingham ) and I came down in the afternoon to help . |
| 5 | The Bomber came down in the middle of morning service . ’ |
| 6 | I remember how cold it was when we came down in the winter . |
| 7 | Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held . |
| 8 | Prices came down in the street and as for having a purse snatched , well , such things did n't happen to army wives . |
| 9 | When Isambard came down in the evening with his question , delivered with a dry , impersonal smile as though the brief upheaval in the night had never happened , Harry gave his answer with only the slightest convulsion of fear at the pit of his stomach . |
| 10 | And we came down in the morning as safe as we would have been anywhere . |
| 11 | Charity bets twenty five pounds and we came down in the car from Newmarket she had the she had the post out the light everything , now what 's what 's it going on ? |
| 12 | At one time quite a modest stock of components would enable you to build practically anything that came along in the electronics press , although the cost of the components would have been very high by today 's standards . |
| 13 | A lot of his films were unpretentious junk , but they made money and Nicholson and others came along in the slipstream . |
| 14 | Puck Fair is a trio of accomplished Irish musical emigrants who came together in the United States to perform music which has been described as a unique fusion between the spontaneity of jazz and the driving rhythms of traditional Irish jigs , reels and hornpipes . |
| 15 | The most negative aspects of American policing — its violence and racism — came together in the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1991 , which was followed by rioting when the white policemen responsible were acquitted in April 1992 . |
| 16 | It is a car town and it is a city of immigrants , white , brown and black : Scots and Irish have staffed its militant shop stewards ' movement , and the races came together in the city 's wondrous two-tone band , the Selector . |
| 17 | At the end of each summer , when the grass turned brown and the growing cycle had ended , groups of women came together in the fields for a ceremony of weeping . |
| 18 | To those activists of the Catholic right who eventually came together in the CEDA it was an illegitimate document calling for drastic ‘ revision ’ ; more widely it helped to render the passive majority of Spanish Catholics immune from the appeal of conservative Republicanism and drive them into the CEDA 's welcoming embrace . |
| 19 | It was your hard luck if you came in in the middle of one of them . |
| 20 | These differences in education came through in the interview . |
| 21 | ‘ The body we are interested in came ashore in the Al-Gadira district four nights ago . |
| 22 | Most of the provisions of the Housing Act 1988 relating to private sector renting apply equally to housing associations , but the most important change relating to housing associations came not in the Act but by ministerial decision . |
| 23 | ‘ They came over in the summer and at half-term and I 'll be in England for Christmas . |
| 24 | ‘ I came specially in the hope of seeing Doctor Volkov . ’ |
| 25 | Shoes came off in the water . |
| 26 | That really turned my stomach , even if , I mean I remember when I was carrying , when I was carrying the twins , and he used to go out huge things you know , and so much so that if he came home in the night , right , and I was already in bed asleep , I would be able to er , he would wake me in the bedroom cos I could smell smoke on him , but he did n't smoke , but where he 'd been the pub or a night club , I smelt |
| 27 | I even enjoyed Nonni 's company ; when I came home in the evenings , she would make tea and we would discuss Tom and Oliver , their beauty , their brains , their marvellous futures . |
| 28 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 29 | If , at any point , I thought that his solicitude was the sort of tender kindness you might show to someone utterly dependent and helpless — a prisoner or a caged bird — I was ashamed at once and re-doubled my efforts to be a good wife , asking Nonni to teach me how to cook the elaborate dishes Richard liked , and taking care to change my dress before he came home in the evening . |
| 30 | There were so many human stories , retold movingly by Uncle Fred as he came home in the evening after searching for employment for another batch of DPs . |