Example sentences of "came [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | Men 's houses and roads with centipedes of cars threading along them , and tiny milling people like the ants that came in the summer in the far comer of his cage . |
| 32 | Soon the only sound came from the carousing in the hall below . |
| 33 | Her first impulse was to run away , to run blindly anywhere , as fast as she could go , because the cry quite certainly came from the direction in which the dilapidated signpost was pointing — and that signpost pointed to DANGER . |
| 34 | Most of the day-to-day trade came from the man in the street , and it would be wrong to infer that every coffin-maker and funeral furnisher hungered after catering for the top end of the market . |
| 35 | The single small pellet collection came from the desert in Qatar ( Table 2.3 ) , and the analysis of bones from this desert variety shows remarkable similarity to the bone assemblage from Sweden despite the great difference in species composition and diversity of the prey . |
| 36 | The memory-discs connected to these computers came from the factory in Mainz , West Germany , and the printers from the factory at Jarfalla in Sweden . |
| 37 | The stimulus for the reopening of dialogue ( broken off by North Korea in early 1990 in protest over the annual joint South Korean-United States " Team Spirit " military exercise ) came from the North in late June , following improving relations between South Korea and the Soviet Union [ see p. 37533 ] . |
| 38 | The expression is well known in the South , especially among service families and may I add , there were a great number of fine soldiers who came from the South in units as famous as that fine body of men who serve and have served in the DLI . |
| 39 | The severest revilement , however , probably came from the mob in the street and the clergy . |
| 40 | I did the er there was a an ambulance came down the road in front of a bus you see , and a chap which was on the cor , side the road and he he went like this so I stopped and the ambulance came round and turned into this building site and I and while we were sitting there bang ! |
| 41 | That would be bad news for Wales , although they have expected all along that wonder wing David Campese would be 100 per cent by the time it came to the crunch in Cardiff . |
| 42 | And it came to the crunch in April , I was on a death wish . |
| 43 | Drawn entirely from the Metropolitan 's permanent collection , the objects came to the museum in the bequests of Nelson A. Rockefeller ( 1979 ) and Jane Costello Goldberg ( from her husband Arnold 's collection ; 1987 ) , acquired by these New York collectors prior to the establishment of U.S. import restrictions of Pre-Columbian objects from Peru . |
| 44 | His attempt to do so fostered a current of resentment that came to the surface in 1968 . |
| 45 | Karen came to the door in her dressing-gown . |
| 46 | Tavernier is sometimes wrongly bracketed with the ‘ new wave ’ of film-makers who came to the fore in the Sixties . |
| 47 | Vince Hilaire was a supremely talented winger who came to the fore in Palace 's great FA Youth Cup-winning side of 1977 , and then matured in Division 2 in 1977–78 while helping the club retain the Youth Cup at the same time . |
| 48 | Connections quickly came to the fore in the application , however , for Kinnoull pointed out that the wife of the minister of Tippermuir was a lady ‘ for whom the Dowager Lady Findlater has a particular regard ’ , and she was herself the niece of Sir James Grant 's uncle , Sir William Dunbar . |
| 49 | They made up two-thirds of the membership during the period of rapid growth between 1905 and 1907 , and during the reaction of 1907–10 workers came to the fore in local party organizations across the country . |
| 50 | In Britain it came to the fore in the 1970s through Buzz magazine and the Greenbelt festival . |
| 51 | Racial tensions came to the fore in several French cities during June and July , as a growing public backlash against North African immigrants placed the government of Edith Cresson under severe political pressure . |
| 52 | Even in the " Court–Country' Election of 1698 the partisan rivalries of Church politics came to the fore in some areas . |
| 53 | Pushing herself to her feet , she came to the bed in a stiff , hasty stumble ; her arms went round Ruth , holding her tight . |
| 54 | Telegraph came to the village in 1901 and messages were sent by morse code . |
| 55 | As they walked along one of the stone-flagged paths and came to the gate in the flint wall they saw a neat pile of mowings waiting , apparently , to be composted . |
| 56 | A feature of British society in the next 25 years will be the ageing of the ethnic minority communities who came to the country in the 1960s to provide labour ( Figure 2.11 ) . |
| 57 | Mr Houghton still glows proudly when recounting Corning 's role in helping to create the electric light-bulb after Thomas Edison came to the company in 1879 with his ideas . |
| 58 | The company holds the distinction of having catered for every Coronation Banquet since George III came to the throne in 1760 . |
| 59 | By the time Robert III came to the throne in 1390 , Dundonald Castle was probably about 250 years old and below the standard required for a royal residence ; in any case , it was too far removed from the principal seats of government and power , such as Edinburgh and Stirling , to be a permanent royal household . |
| 60 | Kaiser Wilhelm II came to the throne in 1888 and , after forcing the ageing Chancellor to retire , took his belligerence several steps further by bolstering the German military , by promoting the growth of pan-Germanism and by demoting and suppressing the voice and interests of the non-German peoples within the borders of the Reich . |