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Example sentences of "came [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	When reports came in of the spread of an eye disease in Cuba that was caused by malnutrition , they rushed to send packets of vitamins .
2	At different times during the war , reports came in of the need for jet fuel .
3	Reports came in of the landing of Iraqi military personnel on the uninhabited Kuwaiti island of Bubiyan .
4	Taxi proprietors were discussing the problem with senior Huddersfield police early on Tuesday evening when news came through of the stabbing of Mr Andrew Brown , aged 24 , of Birds Edge , near Penistone , South Yorkshire , at Three Star Taxis ' office in Beast Market .
5	: I was on duty in the RAF at Ismailia when word came through of the King 's death .
6	The word ‘ clays ’ here means the raw elements , which came out of the explosion from the sun or he ‘ Big bang ’ which is a theory of how life began .
7	Nobody came out of the alley .
8	I 'll go through it again once we 've seen the film , and ask you to give me the main points that came out of the film .
9	He therefore came out of the temple walking backwards with his whole head covered by a cloth and immediately dipped his head in a basin of water before removing the covering .
10	As he was putting their luggage into the book , the girl came out of the hotel carrying her backpack .
11	He came out of the Hotel suddenly and violently , unable to endure the privilege which had so cruelly and so recently oppressed him .
12	As he came out of the hotel , prepared for a buffeting , he was aware of the change .
13	Until Mr. Mendez came out of the hotel and Russell nudged his roan up to in front of the office .
14	Windows opened ; grocers ran to the doors of their shops ; customers stopped discussing bacon and turned ; our teachers wobbled on their bicycles as the noise buffeted them like a violent squall ; and boys sprinted to the school gates as they came out of the building , though many others , cool boys , shrugged or turned away in disgust , gobbing , cursing and scuffling their feet .
15	His son came out of the building with several of his friends .
16	Then two more men came out of the building .
17	Police and doctors came out of the building to help the passengers .
18	RUGBY LEAGUE came out of the north of England because a number of Yorkshire and Lancashire businessmen thought that talented lads should be compensated for time they took off from the pit or the plant .
19	Lambert dived , but nobody came out of the basket .
20	Spoiling his fine Lace Coat , which they told him came out of the Treasury " .
21	Just then a man , attracted by all the noise and commotion , came out of the jungle and began to climb up the mountainside towards Cassowary .
22	MacLane-Daine came out of the jungle of fire , a human torch , arms raised like Frankenstein 's monster .
23	Benjamin drew back the bolt and came out of the stable .
24	Even allowing for this , the surface was left just as it came out of the mould .
25	He came out of the Harvester but it would have been nice if he 'd waited for there to be a gap in the traffic .
26	But as Ruth came out of the basement , all she was struck by , quite irrelevantly , was his likeness to Jake ; for an instant she almost thought it was Jake , standing there .
27	Once he came out of the Navy , Charles became a little more involved , but it was not really until the end of the decade , after Mountbatten 's death , when he was looking for a real job to do , that Charles took up the reins himself .
28	In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo .
29	Ruth rang the bell at the gate and a man came out of the lodge to attend to her .
30	I came out of the station , having had my break and was putting it into my notebook — ‘ refreshments at such-and-such a time , leave such- and such a time ’ .