Example sentences of "came [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | These characteristics very considerably , but similar patterns can be found in several different churches and one can be fairly confident they came from the same workshop . |
| 32 | 17 passives were produced when actor and acted-upon came from the same class . |
| 33 | You see , it came from the same thing . |
| 34 | The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family . |
| 35 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |
| 36 | ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ That means you came from the same egg . |
| 38 | Although they spoke German and came from the same backgrounds as their charges , they were often young and inexperienced and unprepared for the demands of the work . |
| 39 | I er I did n't buy them and he sent us three boxes and they came from the same warehouse . |
| 40 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |
| 41 | Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself . |
| 42 | The Times , more restrained , came to the same conclusions : ‘ To most sensible , rational people , a verdict which depends on the evidence of a man like Mathews , in the circumstances in which he gave that evidence , can not be safe . ’ |
| 43 | We soon came to the same decision , which was that having promised the boys we would help them , we could n't now let them down . |
| 44 | I looked at it afresh and came to the same conclusion . ’ |
| 45 | Unknowingly Raistrick followed the same path as the St. Mary 's workers and came to the same conclusion : the instability of the antibacterial substance did not make further attempts worth while . |
| 46 | Both the vet and the keeper came to the same conclusion — that Sam had eaten something that did n't agree with him , as he had n't eaten much of his food from the day before . |
| 47 | At that precise moment , Delaney came to the same conclusion as Nell . |
| 48 | Robert Blatchford , Britain 's most popular socialist writer , came to the same conclusion , but went further , writing enthusiastic articles for the Daily Mail in support of military conscription . |
| 49 | Goff and Reasons , after analysing the period 1952–72 , came to the same conclusion : ‘ the Combines Branch has centred its attentions upon the investigations , prosecutions , and conviction of small-medium-sized companies and corporations , leaving the very largest corporations free to engage in their monopolistic practices ’ ( 1978 : 86 ) . |
| 50 | Darwin and Wallace came to the same conclusion about archipelago birds . |
| 51 | He came to the same conclusion as Duncan . |
| 52 | We all came to the same conclusion — the powers that be were determined to make an example of some poor regional company . |
| 53 | There is nothing new in that ; we came to the same conclusion earlier when studying the field of a line charge . |
| 54 | But no , it appeared not ; report after report , in many different learning tasks and in species as diverse as rats and goldfish , came to the same conclusion . |
| 55 | In the early 1970s , in the heyday of abstract philosophy of education , it was commonplace to draw a distinction between education ‘ in the true sense ’ and pseudo-education ; or , which came to the same thing , between education and training . |
| 56 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose . |
| 57 | He denounced the arrests on Aug. 14 of opposition leaders , which , he noted , came on the same day as the release of Sgt. Venançio Mikó Obiang , who was convicted in July 1983 of participating in an attempted coup the previous May [ see pp. 32299-300 ] . |
| 58 | The news came on the same day that the car makers Rover announced another year of losses . |
| 59 | The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub . |
| 60 | They started drinking before the parson ever arrived and , when he did , fell upon the beer kegs that came on the same cart as though they were men dying of thirst . |