Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [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 Robert was a replacement in the Currie Cup final and came on for young Johan Roux in the second half .
3 I do n't think anyone would argue though , that the true stars of the event came on at mid bill , at 6.30pm .
4 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 .
5 It all came down to bloody money .
6 ‘ 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 These girls came down in special trains : it was n't just the odd few .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 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 .
12 Two more came along in quick succession , 1lb 7oz and 1lb-11 , then all activity ceased .
13 Er we also had one very large , cumbersome machine which carried things like lighting and breathing apparatus , and heavy lifting gear and all the other bits and pieces of rescue equipment , which came along in slow time , now that has been improved upon no end , and they 've got a very modern equipment now for that , erm er modern in the sense that new , new pieces have come on , cutting equipment with hydraulic jaws which er just slice through the top of a car roof , whereas we had to cut it with a hacksaw perhaps , or , or another metal saw , we , these can be done with just like cutting through cheese .
14 However , some of the classes survived — Molly travelled to Dagenham twice a week , air raids or no , and class members came in between part-time war work .
15 Like Marshall in the previous Test , Paul Terry came in at Old Trafford in plaster to help a team-mate reach his century .
16 As the protest grew , the troops came in with automatic weapons , armoured vehicles and teargas .
17 As he was preparing , all the company came in with good wishes and pledges of support .
18 They had held back at Milfield on the Till , biding their time , until their scouts came in with exact information of the movement of the Scots army .
19 The silence held for two or three minutes and disturbed Mrs Robinson , who came in with fresh candles and the welcome offer of port .
20 There were none of this in the beginning , in the first two years , but at the time of ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ , a lot of drugs began to come in , a lot of alcohol came in with different individuals , which helped fuel things .
21 The diet , of bread and butter and tea for breakfast , bread and butter and tea for tea , milk for supper , and a very limited variety of items for dinner , came in for adverse comment .
22 When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details .
23 Maggie 's brooch , her dress , her cloche , came in for similar praise .
24 All kinds of difficult questions began to be asked and in the early heady days of the women 's movement the body came in for close scrutiny .
25 The contrasts between the synoptic gospels ( Matthew , Mark and Luke ) and the fourth gospel , between the various letters ascribed to Paul , and between Paul 's theology and that of other leaders in the primitive church , all now came in for serious consideration .
26 All the leaders came in for new rubber between laps 24 and 31 , when Patrese pitted .
27 On March 7th , against Wales at Twickenham , we all witnessed at least two acts of complete thuggery when not only were English players stamped on but it was their heads which came in for rough treatment .
28 Baghdad , as in the bunker incident at Ameriyah , came in for rough treatment when Allied airpower set out to paralyse the Iraqi nerve centre in January 1991 .
29 The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people .
30 The Prime Minister came in for strong criticism from opposition leaders but insisted only single party government by Fianna Fail could work for Ireland .
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