Example sentences of "they [adv] came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that farming was the likeliest occupation for RCM boys , even though they mostly came from urban professional and commercial backgrounds and had a positive aversion to rural life . |
| 2 | There was no need for them to be imported to Britain since they mostly came from countries which were capable of developing their own waste-disposal programmes . |
| 3 | She could n't remember having actually been in one and anyway , they rarely came Past Mrs Parvis 's lodgings . |
| 4 | Whereas they eventually came to some agreement over the various ‘ courses ’ , they argued vehemently over Elisabeth 's insistence that the recital should both begin and close with Strauss 's Morgen . |
| 5 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 6 | They eventually came into the possession of the picture agency Popperfoto , now based in our region . |
| 7 | So letters were unearthly and invaluable , even if they only came from Barclays Bank . |
| 8 | Aye , they only came in the su they only came up here in the summer . |
| 9 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 10 | ‘ The advice I gave the bench and the decision they rightly came to was for a re-trial . ’ |
| 11 | What , what people had , had Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and they perhaps came for their order on the , or their weekend joint on the Friday and I 'd make the whole ticket up and they 'd pay and then that ticket would be torn off and if they wanted that meat delivered on the Saturday , that would be delivered with that ticket on the top . |
| 12 | I had never seen them before and they obviously came from some very rural place in the Apennines . |
| 13 | Rounding the great bend opposite East Ord , they suddenly came into view of the English forces massing over a mile ahead . |
| 14 | Once scientists began to collect the record of past life they soon came across the problem of how to order and arrange the huge variety of fossil forms they recovered . |
| 15 | And they still came to the famous dinners at his house , where the food , and the music , and the conversation were the best in London . |
| 16 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 17 | A handiwork lesson where children were mechanically engaged in a task ( making brooms ) which all had already mastered before they ever came to school . |
| 18 | used to say , that cases used to come before her court in in Rochdale , and it was an absolute disgrace that they ever came to court . |
| 19 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |
| 20 | They also came across Matisse sketches and two fake stamps imitating those of well known art experts . |
| 21 | They also came to be blamed for the ills of the locality , including the use of sweated labour by unscrupulous employers , rack-renting by slum land-lords , and the increased crime rate . |
| 22 | Port Talbot had a large and vital steelworks , and moonlit nights almost always brought the Luftwaffe , but they also came in daylight . |
| 23 | They also came from large conurbations able to provide additional revenue through commercial support and gate income . |
| 24 | They nearly came to scratching each other because Janice says they 've only got an old banger . |
| 25 | If the latter , they probably came from across the seas . |
| 26 | In contrast , the Whigs were the " Low Church " party , as they now came to be called : they continued to be critical of High Anglican religious intolerance , and in general remained consistent to their beliefs in liberty of conscience and religious toleration for all Protestants . |
| 27 | Erm you 've got this , this business of threatening to attack the Serbian guns erm involves of course the decisions of individual governments whether or not they 're prepared to allow their forces to be involved , in the case of the British whether you 're going to allow your forces to get involved in it or not , but in international terms it involves both NATO , which has now passed a resolution saying unless certain conditions are met by a certain time , then there will be bombing of the Serbian positions but the people on the ground , whether they originally came from France or the Ukraine or from Britain , are in fact under the blue beret of the United Nations and the United Nations and NATO are not altogether , they 're not precisely together on this issue . |
| 28 | They often came into conflict with the local Transport Committees , formed from the local branches of the main transport unions , who correctly maintained that they alone had the right to issue permits for the movement of essential items which would otherwise have been held up in the dispute . |
| 29 | They often came into the dining rooms together and one day they were trying not to listen as Bessie was going on at length about her friend Elsie Dobson . |
| 30 | They really came into their own in the days when Harry had to accumulate sufficient stocks for weekend house parties . |