Example sentences of "came [adv prt] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today 's case came out of a fight hear at the Coachmaker 's Arms , but the landlord says the days of Wallingford 's louts are numbered . |
| 2 | When I came out of a nightmare of pain it was to a swirling world of night , and a storm . |
| 3 | The men operating the windlass for the portcullis cheered Burun as he rode past and , as soon as they gave tongue , more men came out of a gate-house and joined in . |
| 4 | Martinho came out of a door in the ‘ administration ’ wing of the prison , walking very quickly . |
| 5 | An Indian wearing a turban came out of a door on the half landing and , with a slight bow , waited for her to pass . |
| 6 | Because I came out of a society in which nobody even read books and I certainly never expected to be a writer . |
| 7 | When Mr Maxwell eventually came out of a hotel lift to attend his own reception , he crossed the hotel lobby and went down a corridor , followed by shouts of ‘ scab ’ and other abuse . |
| 8 | The idea for this workshop came out of a realisation that Modularity was very much back on the agenda in a wide variety of institutions . |
| 9 | They sped down the warm evening pavement for about fifty yards and then pulled up as an elderly man , walking his dog , came out of a driveway in front of them . |
| 10 | The ninth bomber came out of a lightening sky at six o'clock exactly , and though she sat there for another hour , it was the last . |
| 11 | So it came out of a budget when we were all ratepayers , it did n't come out of poll tax payers ' budgets okay ? |
| 12 | The initiative for the women 's group came out of a seminar on ‘ Women and Mass Media ’ , which was organised by the Joint Women 's Programme , 22–24 August . |
| 13 | They came out of a summer house or folly , or some such thing , and found themselves in the company of a servant girl who was out walking . |
| 14 | A new life for the injured rider who came out of a coma . |
| 15 | The first one came out of a mouth just under the right epaulette . |
| 16 | This development builds on technology that came out of a research project sponsored by the Ministry of International Trade & Industry , Friend 21 . |
| 17 | ‘ Came out of a manhole , sir . ’ |
| 18 | Which was interesting at that time , since it came out of a tin and not out of an office . |
| 19 | But ‘ Winters ’ hauled England up a second-half mountain , dragging his pack into overdrive and tackling non-stop as the Boks came out of a half-time huddle screeching defiance and ready to build on a 16–11 lead . |
| 20 | He had made the remark , or something like it , ‘ to the back of Admiral Poindexter ’ as they came out of a meeting with Reagan , and Reagan could not possibly have heard it . |
| 21 | This distracting racket pitched in every time I came out of a corner and put on the power in the Formula First single-seat racing car I was driving . |
| 22 | He came out of a side door , clutching a carry-out . |
| 23 | As I entered , a man came out of a side room and I knew immediately he must be Long John . |
| 24 | They came out of a restaurant and had a race with Juan O'Brien and two of his cousins . |
| 25 | He came out of a restaurant and stood waiting . |
| 26 | He came out of a restaurant , his bags bobbing on his arm as usual , and spoke to two men in a darkened doorway . |