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

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1 ‘ As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’
2 As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’
3 But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us .
4 As he came off the 13th green he was six under fours with five holes to play and Patrick 's prospects of collecting had improved .
5 SAM Torrance finished three shots ahead of his nearest challenger after the third round of the Kronenbourg Open at Salo but came off the last green a disappointed man .
6 His hundred , the ninth in a career which has now entered its 15th year , came off the last ball of the game after his captain , Graham Gooch , had delayed the final formality of a declaration .
7 Sarah came through the first week of marriage with few hopes of real happiness , though she was pleased enough with her elevated circumstances .
8 The accusations came during the first day of a tribunal in which Ron Thomson claims he was forced to quit his post as general manager at the trust .
9 One of the liveliest days of the campaign came during the first week .
10 The only break in his time at the store , also known as the Man 's Shop , came during the Second World War when he joined the RAF and served in the Middle East .
11 His move into intelligence came during the Second World War in which he served as a colonel and worked with Eisenhower 's Supreme Allied Headquarters .
12 Despite publicity about their strict code of conduct , it was obvious that the rules had been broken because when the time came for the first troupe to go home , John was astounded to learn that eight out of the sixteen had married during the run and intended to remain behind and every one of the other eight was engaged .
13 They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back .
14 I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England .
15 If only — the thought came for the first time — if only she had stayed with Papa !
16 Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons .
17 When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend .
18 The doctor came for the last time and said , ‘ Yes , he 's going now . ’
19 That came with the last lot that I got .
20 The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups .
21 ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school .
22 The defendants argued that : ( a ) The proviso quoted above came within the first test enunciated by Lord Reid in the Esso case ( see p 7 above ) ie that it did not deprive the plaintiff of any freedom which he would otherwise have had ; accordingly that it did not operate as a restraint of trade and therefore that it was effective on the admitted facts to terminate the plaintiff 's entitlement to commission .
23 Cos he came round the next week and talked to me , he had a quick chat with me for about three hours !
24 The heavy mob came round the next morning ; all one of him .
25 It was a pleasant walk along well-trodden paths through Birbeck Woods beyond which we came upon the first set of workings in Gunnerside Gill : the remains of dressing floors belonging to the Old Gang Mining Company .
26 Setback number two came in the 70th minute when Stewart Renton ( Barrhead ) broke a leg in a collision with the Dundee goalkeeper .
27 It came in the 70th minute .
28 The winner came in the 64th minute thanks to a combination of fine attacking play from Jason Soloman and inept defending by Boro .
29 The turning point came in the 64th minute , when winger Jacques Olivier burned off the challenge of Nigel Heslop , exchanged passes with Gerber and scored a superb try .
30 other resort towns came in the nineteenth century .
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