Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday the crossing was in operation again , amid local claims that the warning lights came on only 10 seconds before trains go through . |
| 2 | Erm turbocharging in diesel engines really came on about ten years ago . |
| 3 | Margaret closed her eyes tightly as the ruler came down hard six times across her palm . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman came in just five minutes ago . |
| 5 | The FTSE came in just 0.2 points ahead and slipped around eight points before settling up 0.7 points at 2812.9 . |
| 6 | " I have n't seen her for several weeks then she came in about two hours ago — sort of staggered into the kitchen , and she was carrying the kitten in her mouth . |
| 7 | The divorce came through about six months ago . ’ |
| 8 | Prime Minister John Major watched Smith smash 82 of the 114 runs England added from their final 10 overs his third fifty came off just 20 balls and said : ‘ Gilbert Jessop would be proud of him . |
| 9 | His 59 came off only 55 balls , but when he and then Garner departed , Gomes was apparently stranded on 96 since Marshall was not expected to bat . |
| 10 | Campbell 's 140 came off only 146 balls and included 14 fours and six sixes . |
| 11 | ‘ My mates and I came up here one day when there was no English football , Christmas Eve I think , and I just got hooked , ’ he said at half time . |
| 12 | There was one child came up about seventeen times |
| 13 | And this came up about three times ! |
| 14 | But it came up about three times ! |
| 15 | In 1990 he was so impressed by the Belfast reception that he came back just three weeks later to do it all again . |
| 16 | And she came back about five minutes after she went and you can call me . |
| 17 | One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops . |
| 18 | Then the album came out about six months later and there was no track — the track never made it to the album ! |
| 19 | The glazed window which came about almost 2,000 year s ago was a luxury which only the privileged few enjoyed . |
| 20 | The 260 days of the sacred year each had a number from one to thirteen attached to it and there were also twenty different day-names , arranged so that the same combination of number and name only came round again 260 days later . |