Example sentences of "came [adv prt] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We waited anxiously as reports came in of 97-mph gales in the Pennines but thankfully the spire remained firm . |
| 2 | The bombs fell on South Wales and reports came in of young men killed in the air , on land , at sea . |
| 3 | Stories came in of fresh controversies and skirmishes between the Desmonds and the Ormondes , and Maurice Fitzgerald began making overtures to Spain in the hope that King Philip might agree to support Ireland and throw out the English , once and for all . |
| 4 | What we have is picking up a ragbag of stable door legislation , that came out of other Acts , and that 's why we have offices , shops and railway premises from the Oswald Acts which were neatly tucked in the back of Oswald 's Act . |
| 5 | The computer , to cite another example , required no fewer than six separate strands of knowledge : binary arithmetic ; Charles Babbage 's conception of a calculating machine in the first half of the nineteenth century ; the punch card , invented by Herman Hollerith for the US census of 1890 ; the audion tube , an electronic switch invented in 1906 ; symbolic logic , which was created between 1910 and 1913 by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead ; and the concepts of programming and feedback that came out of abortive attempts during World War I to develop effective anti-aircraft guns . |
| 6 | Then jagged peaks came out of cloud-filled valleys to steal all colouring from the sky and day flooded the glacier ahead , painting it with a palette of new-formed pastel shades . |
| 7 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |