Example sentences of "i [adv] came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I naturally came to this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance ; it was no easy matter for me , the responsible commander , to abandon my dreams of hope and victory ! |
| 2 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 3 | I only came over here because the super said I had to . ’ |
| 4 | I only came into the room and I switched it on and i there were quite a lot of recriminations with people who |
| 5 | and then previously I worked at neighbourhood office , and I only came to when it had be d been declared a clearance area , |
| 6 | ‘ I only came for a glass of water . |
| 7 | ‘ On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should . |
| 8 | On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should |
| 9 | And I just I , I , I just came into the meeting this morning just half and hour before this meeting I saw them there , but I really do n't know what the implications are of them there . |
| 10 | I just came As |
| 11 | No , I just came over fields , I went along and followed a dyke , I turned left at the cafe , and then followed the first I saw going up . |
| 12 | But , I just came across so much of it every where I was , I thought actually there there 's a book in this because it used to get , just get me so cross writing theatre history and , and reading these terrible things ! |
| 13 | I finally came to the churchyard , ‘ Titty-Bottle Park ’ , where there were literally dozens of kids running about the tombstones . |
| 14 | I had only recently heard of the existence of such places , but I gradually came to the conclusion that she was running a small brothel of which she herself was the centre of interest . |
| 15 | Edward Cody of the AP and I once came to the conclusion that in every interview we conducted in Lebanon , a special chair should be set aside for The Plot — since The Plot invariably played a leading role in all discussions we ever had with politicians , diplomats or gunmen . |
| 16 | She was bitter before I ever came on the scene ! ’ |
| 17 | I quickly came to the conclusion that it was not . ’ |
| 18 | As I was quite unable to organise the shop myself and continue with my studies at the university I quickly came to the conclusion that I would have to appoint a temporary manager . |
| 19 | I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive . |
| 20 | ‘ I really came for a word with Miss Passmore , but if she does n't mind you hearing what I have to say … ’ |
| 21 | It is the only gadget I have ever bought which actually got pushed under the settee where it gathered dust for several years before I really came to terms with it . |
| 22 | John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother . |
| 23 | I even came across one stretch of the old defence works which has had a rugby pitch squeezed into it , with a glacis for a touch line . |
| 24 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 25 | For one thing , I suppose I do regard it as the moment in my career when I truly came of age as a butler . |
| 26 | I believe especially I never came on this campaign until after I went to see Arafat . |
| 27 | I never came across an instance of this , though I encountered a number of individuals who had just killed someone , including a complacent fourteen-year-old near Bilen . |
| 28 | ‘ The funny thing is , I certainly came from a culture that did n't pursue money . |
| 29 | For example , I recently came across the word ‘ homerun ’ and tried for several seconds to read it as ‘ homer-un ’ , until I saw the correct morpheme structure . |
| 30 | Naturally he was very happy when I was able to tell him that I recently came across a couple of cases of them we did n't know we had . |