Example sentences of "came [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The hon. Gentleman , who has a special interest in this matter , must be aware that the first information on the Iraqi contract came through a leaked letter and not directly from UKAEA . |
| 2 | They came through a rugged training session yesterday and were named in a Test side that contains nine Englishmen , four Scots and only one from Ireland and Wales . |
| 3 | A faint glow came through an opaque window which must belong to one of the cloakrooms . |
| 4 | The biggest crisis in her until then trouble-free career came during a recording session in her home town . |
| 5 | Monica Drinkwater 's attack came during an emotional debate on economic policy at the party 's conference in Brighton . |
| 6 | The accusation came during an angry row over a newspaper story which claimed Anne had put off her wedding to Naval Commander Tim Laurence — and called Princess Di and Fergie ‘ two silly girls ’ . |
| 7 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 8 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 9 | Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance . |
| 10 | Viv Richards , who came for a quiet life , is left privately shaking his head and wondering whether there will ever be a perfect world — and a county side blissfully , permanently free from controversy . |
| 11 | I mean he came for a flying visit and he went back did n't he ? he came for a flying visit and went back |
| 12 | I mean he came for a flying visit and he went back did n't he ? he came for a flying visit and went back |
| 13 | . However that was all changed and er that was the first thing we changed and erm then we erm , during the period we , the staff were changed , Mr and Mrs who are in charge of now , they came as a young couple to View and er I think with their coming , they had different ideas and the place did seem to change . |
| 14 | There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life . |
| 15 | It came as a mild shock to realise that there was none . |
| 16 | GREG MACKEY , Warrington 's Australian scrum-half who came as a two-month stop-gap but has figured prominently in the club 's unbeaten start , has agreed to spend the full season at Wilderspool , writes Paul Wilson . |
| 17 | With four children and a stable lifestyle , the break-up of the Docherty 's marriage came as a devastating blow to those closest to him . |
| 18 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 19 | The news came as a devastating blow to her 67-year-old father , the Mossley Hill-born grandson of a Liverpool police superintendent . |
| 20 | The pregnancy came as a real surprise . |
| 21 | The pregnancy came as a real surprise . |
| 22 | ‘ The pregnancy came as a real surprise . |
| 23 | In fact , it came as a complete surprise to the hoteliers of Ramsey when they were given notice to quit their premises within six days , leaving behind ‘ all furniture , bedding , linen , cutlery , crockery and utensils ’ . |
| 24 | The news came as a complete surprise . |
| 25 | The instruction to evacuate the buildings came as a complete surprise . |
| 26 | Serfaty 's release came as a complete surprise . |
| 27 | The redundancies apparently came as a complete surprise to USL staff who were assured before Christmas that no jobs would be lost through the Novell deal . |
| 28 | Such is the standard of junior sides in this competition that the game appeared to be no more than a formality for us , so our 4–1 defeat came as a complete surprise . |
| 29 | This result came as a complete surprise to me and everyone else , and it was greeted with general disbelief . |
| 30 | The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole , at a time when global trends in ozone levels were uncertain , came as a complete surprise . |