Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A student at Lashan Gliding Centre was badly hurt once when the glider lifted off the ground and came down on top of him as he walked by the nose . |
| 2 | Her hand came down on top of a large bunch of them and she felt a sudden stinging pain . |
| 3 | Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder . |
| 4 | ‘ Saunders came down on top of him . |
| 5 | She wound her arms around his neck , eagerly accepting his heated kisses until he lifted her on to the bed and came down on top of her , covering her and dominating her . |
| 6 | You could n't walk into his dressing-room five minutes after the curtain came down for fear of what you might find him doing . |
| 7 | He came down in favour of microkernels , the client-server paradigm , and remote procedure calls . |
| 8 | The two breakaway parties did not affect the result decisively , as most of the " do n't knows " in the opinion polls came down in favour of the Democrats . |
| 9 | On the facts of the case the balance came down in favour of protecting the fair trial . |
| 10 | The committee reported in October 19806 and came down in favour of setting up a national body , to be known as the Committee for Colleges and Polytechnics ( CCP ) which would devise a more rational system of national funding . |
| 11 | In the same way , information about how the National Curriculum Council ( NCC ) came down in favour of more information and factual knowledge in the history curriculum after months of comment and criticism led to a holding of breath as to what precisely would emerge in the shape of revised requirements . |
| 12 | The judge at first instance invoked the wardship powers of the court to protect the girl : he weighed her interests against that of the publishers , and concluded that the balance came down in favour of restraining publication , since the book could be rendered harmless by excising a few paragraphs . |
| 13 | My Lords , I found a very interesting er aspect in the Royal College of Nursing 's review was that resources were not the issue , the Royal College itself came down in favour of the fact that it was management that needed to be tightened up and My Lords it was interesting looking at that survey that it was a telephone survey and in one of the two hospitals er one or two of the hospitals that were rung up , it was quite difficult to find the person who 'd answered the survey . |
| 14 | Something similar and er they came up to the , the great Pacific engines that came on and they , two of them came down in front of the stage , two of them were just a little bit higher up , and on the stage itself , there were scenes done like the hall in the Grand Central Station , New York and er they were , it was either the Ink Spots or some of these dancers that gave a performance , and it was so well put on that you could n't help being impressed by |
| 15 | The discussion groups were relatively open , and many people came along as friends of friends . |
| 16 | Mrs Drubb came in with offers of tea . |
| 17 | His wife Aileen came in with pails of milk , scolding at two little girls for clinging onto her skirt and making her spill . |
| 18 | THE divorce came through in April of this year but the couple have remained on friendly terms . |
| 19 | I would guess that he originally came over for morale of the troops . |
| 20 | A little boy came up with lumps of rock in his hand . |
| 21 | But when I inserted another two SIMMS the system came up with 6Mb of RAM as expected . |
| 22 | The boat came up on top of the wave , with white water all around it . |
| 23 | Something came up in respect of the tie lines which I 'd just like to mention while we 're here in respect of . |
| 24 | Higgins , came up in front of snooker 's ruling body , the WPBSA , to answer charges of offences committed during last November 's UK championship in Preston . |
| 25 | She came up in front of my parents and said : ‘ Would you like to take this home , put a sample in it and we 'll do a sperm count for you ? ’ |
| 26 | There were more unrelated Smiths playing against each other in the Triangular Tournament of 1912 , when Tiger of England came up against Dave of Australia . |
| 27 | His brothers came back with stories of heaving and hacking coal : even Daddy Ni still worked at the face : even Elfed , seen as the over-restraining killjoy , worked down there . |
| 28 | Her mother had made some scones and pies in her afternoon leisure and picked some flowers in case the child came back in need of cheering up , so they ate some supper and then went out to the headland . |
| 29 | After discussions , Martin Lynch 's name came out on top of the list . ’ |
| 30 | Now it reports in here a survey carried out in The Doctor , September the twenty sixth , and it was asking there who they actually supported in terms of the National Health Service changes , and you may be surprised to hear who in fact came out on top of that . |