Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three other women with minor injuries came in before the room could be cleared . |
| 2 | He came in when the lads were at a low ebb somewhere on the ocean bed . |
| 3 | The fades , whistles and crackles reminiscent of old Tony Hancock programmes came through because the ionosphere is not as stable as broadcasters would have liked . |
| 4 | He came back when the others had departed , bringing fish and chips or a hot-dog , and sat on the straw-stack inside the factory to eat them . |
| 5 | Then the darkness came back as the board was replaced . |
| 6 | He came out before the smoke had cleared and swung the door quietly on well-oiled hinges . |
| 7 | The truth never came out until the fear wore off . |
| 8 | A puff of ancient dust came out as the slug went in . |
| 9 | What 's more , he spent ten years and more living in Berlin , speaks the lingo literally like a native , and after Berlin — he came out when the show blew up — he went to Oslo . |
| 10 | Perhaps the confusion originally came about since the name ‘ schizophrenia ’ comes from the Greek root schizo , which means ‘ splitting away from ’ . |
| 11 | That 's largely historical ; and came about because the ECCU has such a long and distinguished tradition . |
| 12 | But remember that this change in the composition of assets came about because the borrower used his overdraft facility . |
| 13 | THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SECOND EMPIRE in France came about because the determination of one man was ultimately sanctioned by the will of many . |
| 14 | Since two different groups of headlines appear in E [ the last sheet but three ] it is obvious that an interruption occurred while E was printing ; and it appears probable that it came about because the printer abruptly decided to run off a small number of complete copies of the book for sale while the opera was being presented and then to finish the entire edition at leisure . |
| 15 | The double tendering success came about because the offices of Boosey & Hawkes were located on the site of the planned new Sainsbury 's superstore in Hendon . |
| 16 | The Nadd Al Sheba course came about when the Sheikh asked Trutch to devise a scheme that would improve the appearance of the desert wastes inside the city 's popular racetrack . |
| 17 | It can not be mere coincidence that the abandonment of paternalism came about when the party was on the cusp of a new generation of leaders . |
| 18 | The greatest change in IBM 's culture , I believe , came about as the PC grew out of the typewriter in the seventies — when IBM , to achieve necessary volumes , had to let non-IBM people begin selling its PCs . |
| 19 | It came about as the result of a committee set up under the chairmanship of that impeccable Liberal , Lord Haldane , to consider ‘ The Question of Foreign Espionage in the United Kingdom ’ . |
| 20 | All she had been told when she came round after the anaesthetic was that there had been a few complications and the operation had taken rather longer than had been expected . |