Example sentences of "came [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated . |
| 2 | Some thirty graduates of the degree came together for an excellent meal in University House , followed by an informal update from one of the joint organisers of the reunion , Keith Moffitt , on the whereabouts of those who had been unable to attend . |
| 3 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 4 | I love walking the course , never mind the golf , but on this occasion it all came together with a good score as well . |
| 5 | Their work came together at a recent exhibition in Napier 's new KJP Gallery . |
| 6 | During the Permian period , about 280 million years ago , and until the start of the Mesozoic era , the continents came together in a single mass . |
| 7 | Harriet 's brows came together in a puzzled little line . |
| 8 | The painter 's eye , the poet 's search for meaning , and the social anthropologist 's interest in the everyday came together in a unique film style which built overall impressions from the juxtaposition of detail . |
| 9 | In September 1946 , for example , parliamentarians from several countries came together in an International Committee for the Study of European Questions , which published a report in favour of union . |
| 10 | Training , for the younger members of the family through ATB courses , was sometimes seen as an ‘ easy option ’ by the father who felt that instruction of the son came better from a professional than from himself . |
| 11 | The final allied victory against Japan came only after a long and costly struggle . |
| 12 | More sophisticated weapons like throwing sticks and bows and arrows came only after a further long period of brain development . |
| 13 | prisons , being regarded by most planners and politicians as ‘ non-productive ’ ( short-sighted a view as this may be ) , did not until very recently achieve even token inclusion in a Five Year Plan , and this came only after a lengthy battle by individuals within the Ministries of Home Affairs and Welfare to include a meaningful package for development in the correctional field . |
| 14 | In the late eighteenth century this symbiosis of peers and paupers is revealed in the fashionable aping of lower-class mores and dress , a version of the return to nature that came naturally to an upper class lacking a culture of its own . |
| 15 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 16 | They took this idea to Prince Charles ' Youth Business Trust — and came away with a low-interest loan for £4,000 . |
| 17 | The bolt came away with a tacky wrenching sensation . |
| 18 | And we came away with a true understanding of the value of the estuarine habitat . |
| 19 | In 1991 , they went to face Real Madrid in The Bernabeu Stadium after a goalless first leg in Moscow , and came away with an outstanding 3-1 win . |
| 20 | In 1991 , they went to face Real Madrid in The Bernabeu Stadium after a goal-less first leg in Moscow , and came away with an outstanding 3-1 win . |
| 21 | Instead , I came away with an old copy of Prescott 's Conquest of Peru . |
| 22 | The panel came away after a little while ; he put it on the floor in front of him , and wriggled through on his elbows and knees into the darkness beyond . |
| 23 | Conservatives dropped to 261 , Labour rose to 287 and the Liberals came home with a mere 59 . |
| 24 | The friend was erm pushing her , and she came home with a big bump on her head |
| 25 | but they survived pretty well and came home with a priceless away goal . |
| 26 | I came home with a heavy heart and wondered how on earth I could foster vocations . |
| 27 | On another occasion I came home with a pulled hamstring . |
| 28 | At the end of September Violet came home for a long weekend and Perdita was so bloody-minded that in despair Daisy escaped to Harvest Festival for an hour of peace . |
| 29 | His eldest son came home from a great war in another land … ’ |
| 30 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |