Example sentences of "came [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision . |
| 2 | Unlike NATO , which came together for collective defence , the European Community includes neutral Ireland and may soon include neutral Sweden and Austria too . |
| 3 | Thus employers came together for mutual support since labour 's ( political ) goals posed a threat not merely to individual employers but collectively to employers as a class . |
| 4 | We came together on one point , and that was our attitude towards the media . |
| 5 | Baldwin 's declaration for Protection had the immediate effect of reuniting the two sections of the Liberal Party around the historic cause of Free Trade , and Asquith and Lloyd George came together at public meetings to exchange insincere pleasantries . |
| 6 | Retired Sainsbury employees came together in grand style in March and April to reminisce and share afternoon tea in the sumptuous surroundings of the Royal Lancaster Hotel . |
| 7 | In Europe their mission found a receptive audience in the groups of holy women , mulieres sanctae , who came together in various ways to pursue life-styles which they thought best furthered their ideal of a Scriptural vita apostolica . |
| 8 | He kept working when the war started between the Arabs and the Jews but his last edition came suddenly on 9 March 1948 . |
| 9 | The small railway outpost had the Indian sign on it when closure came entirely on I January 1917 in the midst of World War I. However , some five years later the GWR had a change of heart and decided to reopen the station to goods traffic on 18 September 1922 . |
| 10 | Spanish and Portuguese membership came only after long talks , and was expected to put greater pressures on the Social and Regional Funds , as well as increasing the costs of the CAP . |
| 11 | Perhaps , therefore , angular momentum was also quantised , also came only in discrete packets . |
| 12 | Those wingborne came only in historic aircraft and the flying display was a vivid expression of the joys of classic aircraft set against a near-perfect sky and on a landing ground new to the late 20th Century . |
| 13 | * A report published on Feb. 24 by the UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency argues that southern African countries would not be able to provide adequate policing to ensure that any ivory trade came only from legitimate sources ; it also alleges that the Zimbabwean and South African armed forces are involved in illegal smuggling . |
| 14 | And when their membership began to recover and expand , and the noble grip on industry to slip , the influx came largely from successful peasant entrepreneurs . |
| 15 | Yet a tradition of urban centres of political power had been clearly established , and the members of the ruling class who were to determine the course of revolution and change came largely from urban backgrounds . |
| 16 | It was they who controlled the way in which performers , who came largely from working-class backgrounds , developed and packaged popular forms into acceptable acts . |
| 17 | She came downstairs with this garment , triumphant , not unwilling to please with pleasure so cheaply bought . |
| 18 | He broke a piece off carefully , so it came away without any noise , just crumbling . |
| 19 | This time the curled metal merely came away with jellied lumps of vitreous humour sticking to it . |
| 20 | So I came away with this sort of inside information |
| 21 | But many of his supporters have been angered by the military coalition 's confiscations of weapons and by diminished opportunities to loot and extort since the first marines came ashore on 9 December . |
| 22 | VOTING Day came early for some schools in the North-East who went to the polls yesterday in a mock General Election . |
| 23 | The amazing prediction came yesterday by controversial agent Ambrose Mendy , the man behind Nigel Benn 's rise to fame . |
| 24 | Liza , distraught at the news , came home on compassionate leave , which she spent in such a state of shock and distress that Harriet began to feel that the sooner she returned to her duties the better . |
| 25 | He came home with many stories about the strange , dark mysteries which he called Siberian Magic . |
| 26 | My Manchester United lads went there three times in a fortnight last season and came home with two wins and a draw , and the biggest factor was the way Gary Pallister handled Lee Chapman . |
| 27 | out for me and erm , when he went in on Monday , erm it was the other one the lad that actually owns it , so I was in there for about bloody half an hour and we came home with some samples and one that I quite liked it was up on the wall and he said that is my best selling Axminster that I had , and it was like , it was maybe it was a bit too busy , it was , it was greyey and it was all different other colours in it , but it was a lot of flowers on it , it was n't a traditional Axminster you see Mike loves these traditional Axminsters and he does n't really , he wo n't really entertain anything else , erm , anyway I brought that sample home and what else ? |
| 28 | It may be they sa Mr Eggleton with somebody shortly before he died or someone came home with bloodstained clothing . |
| 29 | In the second race Carl came home in 10.03 seconds for yet another Championship best . |
| 30 | Mrs Megan Quaile , 79 , who tripped and fractured her hip , came home after eight days and is ‘ feeling fine ’ . |