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

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1 The patient then came under both the S.M.O. and S.S.O.
2 The voice , deep and resounding , came from near the door .
3 Best of the roach and dace weights came from above the weir as Middlesbrough Newman Scotts ' skipper Dave Smiddy weighed in 9–3–8 to the waggler and maggot .
4 In both cases the information which led to the discovery of wrongdoing came from outside the UK .
5 In some cases the purchasers of land came from outside the village , as at Leighton Buzzard in Buckinghamshire , where recent arrivals in the manor were able to build up their holdings .
6 Only 6 per cent came from outside the county ; 43 per cent came from Norwich itself , 22 per cent came from the rest of Norfolk and 29 per cent of places were unrecorded .
7 At York , admissions to the freedom of the city show that in the period 1301–1550 less than one-seventh of those admitted were drawn from citizen stock , while at Romney in Kent between 1433 and 1523 , a quarter of the freemen came from outside the county , and only a third from within a 5-mile radius of the town ( 70 ) .
8 For example , the Hospice des Enfants-Trouvés in Paris , founded 1670 , was admitting several thousand babies a year by the 1770s , equivalent to over 20 per cent of the yearly baptisms in Paris , although almost half came from outside the city , and 13 per cent into the nineteenth century .
9 A second impulse which prompted economic change came from outside the empire .
10 She came from outside the parish as there is no entry of this marriage in the Register Books nor is there mention of the marriage of her sister , Susanna , to Georg Ehret , the botanical artist , in 1738 .
11 A survey carried out throughout the season by P. A. Management Consultants Ltd found that 80 per cent of all the people interviewed came from outside the region .
12 News of his deliverance came from underneath the arches by London 's St Pancras station on Friday at Doug 's Diner , a venue barely known outside the licensed taxi trade ( plat du jour : fresh wild salmon , new potatoes and peas , £3.95 ) .
13 A loud scrabbling came from inside the Anderson and Sam leapt out of the entrance and tugged excitedly at his trousers .
14 The gunshot came from inside the house .
15 The muzzle flash that accompanied their arrival came from inside the house .
16 But no sound came from inside the house ant the lights , he 'd already checked were all off He eased the door right open so it would n't swing and slam .
17 She rode along , swaggering like a man , till she came to where the lane turned into the field , and there she called out as bold as brass : now , please the powers I may find a tiger in the field !
18 When he came to where the men were standing , identified by a tuft of wool in their hat-band or buttonhole , George hesitated .
19 Perhaps even , thought Cadfael , prompted a step further , he came without even the intent to kill , since he did not come prepared .
20 What left-wing historians regret in particular is that the emergence of this new ‘ popular culture ’ came at precisely the moment when conditions were favouring the development of a radical working-class political consciousness .
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