Example sentences of "came [prep] the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He came off the worst but I do n't know what happened to the fairy on top .
2 A change from Krankoor to Kranko came between the 1847 and 1848 volumes , soon after Theunis 's death .
3 Souness was still grumbling about the decisions that went against his team — the penalty that gave Coventry their first goal , the free-kick that led to their second , an offside flag that never came for the third and the sending off of Jamie Redknapp .
4 Those links were particularly strengthened when a major test of the management of information which bore on student 's continuity of study came with the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) in 1982 .
5 That goal was a little rough on St Johnstone , who had chances during the second half , though the best came in the first when Harry Curran threaded a pass through to Vinny Arkins .
6 Most of the migration came in the 1960s and 1970s .
7 In Germany the large shift in Jewish identity came in the eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries as no longer Yiddish but German became the first language for most Jews .
8 His long nose came from the latter and more specifically from a genetic type unit near the Dead Sea .
9 to the inside in , working his way round it , he came from the outside and then he was coming in , you know .
10 For the second year in succession the largest contribution to economic growth came from the financial and business services sector , which grew by 15 per cent , compared with 10.1 per cent in 1989 .
11 But the main source of money for releasing the poor and insolvent came from the rich and solvent ; Neild placed advertisements in the newspapers appealing for donations .
12 The military muscle came from the large and predominantly Serb-officered Yugoslav National Army , which wanted to keep as many of its privileges as possible .
13 Many of its men came from the soft and dreamy Midi .
14 The most serious opposition to his work came from the wealthy and respectable Sir Ralph Clare .
15 Others put the current figure for the Roman Catholics alone at about 1,500,000 , the majority of whom came from the Hungarian and German minorities .
16 While I came to the Arctic when I realized that climbing , my first love , was losing its appeal , Tony was born to the area , loving it , one might believe , even before he saw his first photograph of it .
17 Brilliant and that came to the same as one quarter .
18 And four twelfths came to the same as ?
19 When she came to the yellow and blue ones , she did not need to count the beads on the teacher 's necklace , but simply picked up three together with one hand and threaded them .
20 If the worst came to the worst and we did get another president , I would do it , but I 'd rather have a break for a little while .
21 Like Gronberg , she had only one bogey and her two remaining birdies came at the 10th and 18th holes .
22 Another birdie came at the third as he holed from 15 feet , up then down hill , beyond the pin .
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