Example sentences of "they came [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came through a rugged training session yesterday and were named in a Test side that contains nine Englishmen , four Scots and only one from Ireland and Wales . |
| 2 | They came for a draw and got it . |
| 3 | ‘ They came for a weekend just before we left Starlings . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The same thing happened to Arsenal last season after Benfica knocked them out , of the European Cup , but they came with a late run and it 's up to us to do the same . |
| 5 | They came with a boat , and did all their shopping in Tobermory , so we did not see much of them at all . ’ |
| 6 | It was er you know they came with a big traction engine and the thrashing mill and then they they got up early in the morning and there was the man that looked after the thrashing mill and fork from the carts onto the onto the mill . |
| 7 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 8 | And they came with a and started there . |
| 9 | They came with a good suit on and they would go to work with a suit double breasted and then and they would work there and make a lot of money and when the next thing they would do they would hit into town and get all rigged out and then that was them from top to bottom from their hat right to their feet and then they were hitting the road then . |
| 10 | Marching on that night , suffering terribly from thirst , they came on a track that was not marked on their maps but was used by vehicles . |
| 11 | A few miles further down the road they came on a group of Italians with rifles waving at them to stop , obviously having been alerted by the German post . |
| 12 | Next morning they sighted U-593 and attacked her ; about midday they came on a fleet of French trawlers but were satisfied they carried no German radio operators . |
| 13 | There would have been no question whether the children would come ; they came as a matter of course and ‘ right behaviour ’ . |
| 14 | . However that was all changed and er that was the first thing we changed and erm then we erm , during the period we , the staff were changed , Mr and Mrs who are in charge of now , they came as a young couple to View and er I think with their coming , they had different ideas and the place did seem to change . |
| 15 | They came as a lightning surprise to them when two hundred American planes came over the city clearly visible in the cloudless sky , the Italians kept separating in two camps because of fascist and non- fascist fleet ran around frantically trying to get fog machines working , trying to obscure the target but the fog prevented warships in the harbour for putting up an effective anti-aircraft barrage . |
| 16 | ‘ Whoa there , lass , ’ said Jake as they came to a halt . |
| 17 | Presently they came to a stone wall , beyond which was a huge symmetrical mound . |
| 18 | At last they came to a clearing , where Vic headed for a mossy log . |
| 19 | They came to a fork . |
| 20 | What is more , the old iron trucks with their armour plating are still lying rusting beside the old Kubri road just where they came to a halt in 1948 , the wheels stripped of their tyres but their iron bullet shields still intact . |
| 21 | They came to a halt at a barrier , assuming it was manned by a few nervous Italians . |
| 22 | Mrs Edna Wall remembers Mrs Bessie Forde and Mrs Cooper as leaders marching the band of 90 or so little ones in the early 1930s to outdoor meetings in different parts of the town and always , when they came to a public house , they stopped and sang : ‘ Dare to be a Daniel — ’ with a special emphasis on the words : ‘ Keep outside the public house and bring your money home . ’ |
| 23 | They were at the top of the hill now , and by common consent they came to a standstill . |
| 24 | Allen asked , and as though to point his question they came to a place where another track came in from the right . |
| 25 | Within a mile or less they came to a stream . |
| 26 | Delaney realised they were lost when finally , after innumerable turnings in the maze of corridors , they came to a dead end . |
| 27 | They stayed in the vent , moving along it until they came to a down tunnel . |
| 28 | Tom squeezed on the reins and they came to a halt . |
| 29 | They had n't walked very far when they came to a tiny dirt track off the road . |
| 30 | Silently , they walked past dozens of sprawled figures basking in the early afternoon sun until they came to a fairly quiet and deserted stretch of grass , beneath a plane tree . |