Example sentences of "came [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 2 | Four times a day the nurse came towards her across the wide spaces of lino with the shiny basin containing the rattling metal syringe . |
| 3 | Jenna began heatedly , but he glanced away as his mother came towards them across the lawn . |
| 4 | As relief spread to pure pleasure she waved and came towards him across the yard like a young girl . |
| 5 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 6 | But nothing came of it in the end . |
| 7 | And it seemed to them that there came against them on the part of the Christians full seventy thousand knights , all as white as snow : . |
| 8 | Arthur Cook , a friend of mine who lived in The Friary , came with me to the allotment and after a while I suppose we became bored — we were only seven . |
| 9 | The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds . |
| 10 | After a word with his clerks , Henniker came with me into the other room . |
| 11 | She came with him to the door . |
| 12 | She came with him to the door , and the light from the hall cut an orange path across the roadway . |
| 13 | Shrimpton came with him to the top of the stairs . |
| 14 | She came with him to the door , uneasy , perhaps scared . |
| 15 | When Christian left for London to begin his new life in the Methodist ministry , Seb took him to the railway station at Shipton-under-Wychwood in the farm 's gig and Carrie came with him for the ride . |
| 16 | It worked ; the old man came with him into the junk-filled yard . |
| 17 | ‘ You came with us to the Fleet . ’ |
| 18 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
| 19 | When the Second World War broke out in Europe , it was difficult to get supplies of helpful books , and when the Japanese came into it after the disaster of Pearl Harbour , I myself , as well as the clergy and students for whom I had a pastoral responsibility , felt the need of prayers to meet the threatening danger , as well as the provision of prayers which would express a Christ-like spirit about war , enemies in war , dangers in war and sufferers in war . |
| 20 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 21 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 22 | I came over it below the farmhouse and hugged the side wall like I 've seen them do in the movies until I could peer round into the farmyard . |
| 23 | At the same time , the sound of distant gunfire , explosions and shouting came to him on the night breeze , somewhere off his right and muffled by the intervening trees . |
| 24 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 25 | Whilst Richard Baxter was visiting his sick father in Shropshire , Mr. Baldwin came to him with the news that he too had been forbidden to preach . |
| 26 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
| 27 | The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal . |
| 28 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 29 | Although , like us , he 'd had no news , either from the guards or television or magazines , he somehow felt he had a lot of information that came to him through the ether . |
| 30 | You came to him through the spirits of your ancestors so that spirit worship and fear of the spirits of your relatives was very real to the people . " |