Example sentences of "he came [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , after his stepfather 's death in 1859 , when he came into a comfortable inheritance , Wallis never again made the same artistic impact , though he remained an Academy exhibitor until 1877 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | ‘ He came of a crusading line which has held the manor of Templecombe since time immemorial ? ’ |
| 5 | He came of a labouring family and he himself began work in the local cotton industry at the age of ten . |
| 6 | On his way out of the city he came to a poor crofter 's cottage . |
| 7 | He came to a macabre end . |
| 8 | The pavement had been much repaired , and it was difficult to synchronise his steps so that the middle of each foot fell exactly on the cracks between the paving stones , but with some concentration and a few judicious half-steps he managed it ; then he came to a long blue-grey line of asphalt where a pipe had obviously been repaired , and walked along that instead free from the worry of the paving stones between the cracks . |
| 9 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 10 | He came to a wide gap which had been trodden into mud by cattle . |
| 11 | For all his thinking he came to a sole conclusion . |
| 12 | He came to a bad end . ’ |
| 13 | The actor just did not know the lines , and , though he could manage the exchanges of dialogue quite well , every time he came to a big speech , he would dry . |
| 14 | For the first time he came to a horrified acceptance of the woman 's view . |
| 15 | Soon he came to a bright restaurant on Broadway . |
| 16 | He came to a stumbling halt with the point of the bayonet less than a foot away from his chest . |
| 17 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |
| 18 | But he came to a dead end with that jeweller . ’ |
| 19 | She stumbled after him the length of the church portico , bumping against him when he came to a sudden stop . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've seen him before , when he came with a blind man . ’ |
| 21 | In the same tea chest he came across a cube-shaped case made of orange plastic . |
| 22 | At first , this made Lucien nervous , especially the first time he came across a half-clad female sauntering along the sky-lit corridor outside his room on her way to the bathrooms . |
| 23 | And one day he came across a huge seal and killed it , never knowing that it was his own father in his seal form . |
| 24 | He was in despair , when he came across a known face ; Richard Urquhart , the precentor whom he remembered starting the psalms with a good clear tenor note at Savill 's Old , at the beginning of his sojourn here ; and later at the Heathertons ' . |
| 25 | After winning a scholarship in 1900 to King 's College , Cambridge , he came under a brilliant scholar , Walter Headlam , [ q.v. ] , and a born teacher , Nathaniel Wedd . |
| 26 | The problem he says is only that Mr Tijani turned out to be so ill , otherwise he came as a legitimate private patient . |
| 27 | ‘ He came in a hired car in those days . |
| 28 | He came from a respectable family . |
| 29 | He came from a good home , was well educated and had every advantage . |
| 30 | He came from a good , supportive family and had never been in trouble before . |