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

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1 I came down to earth a bit when Harry Enfield came on to thunderous applause .
2 The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening .
3 He came on for one match at least .
4 Robert was a replacement in the Currie Cup final and came on for young Johan Roux in the second half .
5 If the green light came on for either project , the paper would go straight to capitalization as a commercial company .
6 But I , I liked the the first outfit she came on with that sash wrapped round her
7 Harvey produced a key for the third and a red light came on over each lock .
8 I do n't think anyone would argue though , that the true stars of the event came on at mid bill , at 6.30pm .
9 He came on after 51 minutes to replace the injured Francis , then was hauled off 11 minutes from the end in favour of Nigel Pearson .
10 According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision .
11 The boat came down between two waves , and Grace quickly got her oars out .
12 His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall .
13 So Ariel kept vigil as the night came down on that day nearly four hundred years ago , when everything changed for them .
14 She came down with this summer flu everyone 's getting and went home before I got in .
15 Now that we could relax a bit , we began to realise just how tired we all were and many girls came down with minor ailments , such as skin rashes and tonsilitis .
16 Bill could n't beli well they came down to seventeen pound , I thought well that 's not much
17 The first game was good , but it came down to one player , Garrison , who was desperate to win , and one player , Graff , who just kind of did n't want to lose .
18 It all came down to bloody money .
19 ‘ She came down to Aberconwy School where we all were and said she wanted all the mothers and babies to stay with her , ’ said Tracey Parker .
20 ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own .
21 None of the questions highlighted above by Bukharin can be abstracted from state policies in a Soviet type economy , even that of the mid-1920s , therefore once one had made a few generalisations about the need to transfer surplus from the private sector to the state sector of the economy , all else came down to precise policies which are not self-regulating but consciously decided upon .
22 A whole thicket of broom bushes came down in that slip , as you saw .
23 He had been following the narrow forest path downhill for some leagues , the trees soaring ever taller overhead , so that the sunlight came down in muted bars between the leaves .
24 These girls came down in special trains : it was n't just the odd few .
25 ‘ Then , ’ continued the barmaid , as Cornelius sniffed on appreciatively , ‘ this meteor came down in old Jack Spar 's field , least as how they thought it were a meteor .
26 Anyway , Davy came along and Steve Marriot also came along on that day , because quite a few people heard about it , as we put the word out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street .
27 More than 80 children came along on some days , and many people said they hoped it would become an annual event , she said .
28 He said ooh , he said there was some American students here last week and they were all swimming in there and the man came along with this thing and they bo they were all sat on the middle lo middle of there with their feet dangling in the water splashing away , he said I was dragging this down and this six footer came out , I said , and then they were he said , you 've never seen anybody run so fast in your life like they go
29 Within no time at all , the directly elected mayor of some industrial town or city in the north would spot that if he came along with imaginative ideas for raising standards and delivering services , he would get support , he would be the one that would claim the credit and the central government would be proud to let him have it .
30 I was sort of hoping any other people who were interested in standing for re-election might have came along to this Committee to show their
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