Example sentences of "i came [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 2 | After a few experiments , I came up with a reasonable facsimile of Rebecca 's accidental assemblage . |
| 3 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
| 4 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 5 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 7 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 8 | I came up with a very simple answer to this problem and hope it will help others . |
| 9 | Eventually , after canvassing ideas from virtually everyone in the department , I came up with a design , using egg boxes and colanders which Blue Peter decided to use . |
| 10 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 11 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
| 12 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 13 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
| 14 | thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
| 15 | A passion born of the habit I came by as a girl at school . |
| 16 | I thought you said there 'd be no problem if I came in on a six-month permit ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I came in with a bad knee and it just started getting worse , ’ the 13th-seeded Lendl said . |
| 18 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 20 | Finally I came in as a ‘ check ’ knitter , making the garment to the written instructions to see that there were no errors in them . |
| 21 | I came in as a young teacher , enthusiastic , full of new ideas but you soon find that the old attitudes rub off on you , and so you end up thinking , ‘ Oh , why am I doing this ? |
| 22 | On Saturday 4 June , I came in from a morning 's canvassing in Sutton Coldfield to find an urgent message to call Conservative Central Office . |
| 23 | After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat . |
| 24 | A day or so later , I came down with a very nasty bout of influenza . |
| 25 | Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell-hole just outside our wire . ’ |
| 26 | And that was er I did n't come back with an Line boat , I came back with a erm Canadian Pacific Boat . |
| 27 | I came back for a month , met a Peruvian girl and then I got a letter from her giving me a really good reason to come back . |
| 28 | But I came back as a Gnome . |
| 29 | I came back from a business trip to find her gone . ’ |
| 30 | Because I came out of a society in which nobody even read books and I certainly never expected to be a writer . |