Example sentences of "she came [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At last she came across a white man , nonchalantly lighting his cigarette from a twelve-inch flame shooting out of a gas jet , who was prepared to answer her question . |
| 3 | In Newcastle she came to a self-service cafeteria and , with a cup of tea in her hand , went to an empty table . |
| 4 | Suddenly recalling some of her brother 's youthful enthusiasms , she came to a lame halt . |
| 5 | She came to a skidding stop in front of Guido and Ronni , her lovely bright-eyed face breaking into a huge smile . |
| 6 | She came to a familiar boulder ; it had fallen where the river met the hollow that over the years had become the pond . |
| 7 | When she walked into the kitchen she came to a shocked halt . |
| 8 | Walking despondently upstairs , and into Mrs McMahon 's bedroom to leave the outfit , she came to a shocked halt . |
| 9 | A little farther on she came to a small white cottage , in the porch of which stood a nutcrackery old woman whom Breeze mentally dubbed the Witch of Endor . |
| 10 | All went well until she came to a small boy in the second row . |
| 11 | And then she came to a small rise in the land and there was a man , his head under his arm . |
| 12 | Jessamy was halfway to the drawing-room at the back of the house , where she kept her drawing materials , when she came to a sudden halt . |
| 13 | She came to a full stop , quite overcome , quite unable to continue such a pedestrian account . |
| 14 | She began to walk through the wood , and after a while she came to a little house . |
| 15 | She came to a little patch of sand , the bottom of a miniature canyon , and on the far side of it there was a smooth grey rock , sliced neatly off at the top to make a platform . |
| 16 | But at last she came to a painful decision . |
| 17 | A stitch seared her side and she came to a stumbling halt , pressing her palms to the painful place , waiting until the sharp sting had eased a little . |
| 18 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 19 | Meryl tucked the papers under her arm and decided to walk around the boundary until she came to an alternative entrance . |
| 20 | Vitor supplied , when she came to an awkward halt . |
| 21 | She came to an abrupt halt , stooped and sniffed , wrinkling her nose at the odour of whisky . |
| 22 | She began to walk forward rapidly , but a couple of minutes later she came to an abrupt stop . |
| 23 | In the main cabin she came to an abrupt halt , feeling distinctly foolish . |
| 24 | In fact my own wife , she came of a big family and and she had to look after most of the the younger children until they started work you see and then it was the next one that had to look after them again you see and so on , and that 's how it went on . |
| 25 | Further along she came upon an upturned Welsh dresser with a hand protruding out from underneath it . |
| 26 | She came from a prominent Bristol family of nonconformists and industrialists , where her father had long been active in the abolitionist movement . |
| 27 | Lucille Castineau had lived all her twenty-seven years in the Norman countryside and , though she came from a noble family , she proudly considered herself to be a farm woman . |
| 28 | She came from a large family of seven children , of whom she was the eldest . |
| 29 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 30 | She came from a well-known north London family , and was the widow of a proctor . |