Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them . |
| 2 | Thousands of ethnic Serbs came on to the streets in their support . |
| 3 | A few lights came on in the villages . |
| 4 | Many experiments were done to decide who should have responsibility for controlling the sound ; but eventually it all came down to the engineers , assisted by meters and ( most important of all ) a keen musical sense . |
| 5 | his feet came down to the knees on it |
| 6 | The vicar ‘ came down to the steps at the top of the nave , accompanied by a server with a basket of palms and we all went up and got one except J[ack] . ’ |
| 7 | came down from the clouds one day . |
| 8 | That jarring manifestation of furious technology seemed as remote and ridiculous as a dream , as silence settled down on Kielderhead and the hawk 's whistle came down from the moors . |
| 9 | In 565 he came down from the islands to try and convert a Pictish king . |
| 10 | At Christmas they always played ‘ You came down from the stars ’ and at Easter they usually played a Pastorale , and what with the roar of the traffic and the crowds of chattering shoppers or tourists it was practically impossible to distinguish the tune except in short bursts . |
| 11 | There was Lindsay like this little tremulous Pierrot ( because Lindsay was very little at the time — much thinner ) in these little white tights , and the coat which was like a little 18th century golden coat came down from the flies , if we were lucky enough to have any up there . |
| 12 | Ramapithecus was one of several primates , such as the baboons , which came down from the trees to develop terrestrial living . |
| 13 | These primates came down from the trees and gradually learned to walk upright . |
| 14 | Bats developed " send/receive " switching technology long long ago , probably millions of years before our ancestors came down from the trees . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And , to be honest , the motivation was gained from the reaction of friends and people who came along to the gigs , because I do n't always have a lot of confidence in what I do . |
| 17 | As the smoke cleared and the dust settled , two fighter planes came in over the fields and circled the remains of the barn . |
| 18 | It was still warm during the day , and the sun came in over the trees of the forest outside the camp . |
| 19 | The model came in with the cups of tea , still glowering darkly at Paula from beneath her fringe of false eyelashes . |
| 20 | Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals . |
| 21 | Pooley came in with the drinks . |
| 22 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 23 | The new nanny , a reassuring figure in her brown Norland uniform , came in with the children 's coats and Victoria automatically dropped the conversation . |
| 24 | Yet most Dissenters did avail themselves of the relief afforded by the Declaration , and some eighty addresses of thanks were presented by various Nonconforming ministers and churches ; addresses even came in from the Quakers , who had refused to have anything to do with Charles 's Indulgence of 1672 . |
| 25 | Again , the light level was subterranean , but there were no curtains so a fair amount of yellow light came in from the streetlamps outside . |
| 26 | Mum came in from the shops and gave us the news that , starting from September , we are to have 2 morning services . |
| 27 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 28 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1958 After flirting with failure , the Swedes came through to the finals with a point to spare after a 2-0 victory in Poland in their last qualifying game . |
| 29 | Despite these important responsibilities the relationship that came over to the objectors was one of cosy acquiescence between these bureaucracies and the nuclear industry . |
| 30 | Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle . |