Example sentences of "came [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The call from Scotland Yard came through half an hour after Wexford got back to the station . |
| 2 | Have you have you got any er idea of how i it came about that a group was so organized ? |
| 3 | That 's why Keegan 's swoop came as such a shock . |
| 4 | All this came as such a shock . |
| 5 | Few countries in the world — certainly not economic sloths like Japan or West Germany — came near such a rate of progress . |
| 6 | The beef was tender , the sauce delicious and it came with all the expected accompaniments . |
| 7 | The victim had 15 stab wounds , including one to his neck which came within half a millimetre of severing a major blood vessel . |
| 8 | The police came within half an hour and the officer was sympathetic although he advised me not to expect the thieves to be caught . |
| 9 | Er , so two of us came in sixty-one the third one , youngest one , came in sixty- five . |
| 10 | Reports now came in that the wreckage of the terminals had been bombed . |
| 11 | Oh oh oh not really , but it was when this chanting came in that the young fellas seemed to like gangs in the crowd and this when all the trouble started |
| 12 | She was in the staff lounge making herself a drink when he came in half an hour later . |
| 13 | Halliwell Sutcliffe wrote at the end of the nineteenth century that folk came from all the surrounding villages to enjoy the swingboats and coconut shys , and to join the dancing on the village green . |
| 14 | The best help came from all the fellow humans we met on holiday . |
| 15 | An analysis of news originating anywhere away from the line-of-rail showed that it frequently came from such a tour , which shows what difficulty the news media had in getting rural news . |
| 16 | She felt deeply moved that such a humanitarian statement came from such a humble source in such unexpected surroundings . |
| 17 | The men also tended to have different political views as they came from such a huge and diverse country . |
| 18 | Dissatisfaction with the Hague Rules came from both the maritime carrier countries and the developing nations of Asia and Africa . |
| 19 | He thought and meditated ; filled them out by experience of pastoral care and by writing ; and came to such a unity that all his later life he had a coherence of outlook , in thought and devotion and ethic , which was an anchor to the Church of England in difficult days . |
| 20 | An 11-pounder I caught came to such a bite , and four others around 9lb on the same day to similar bites . |
| 21 | In 1832 a young Englishman , Charles Darwin , twenty-four years old and naturalist on HMS Beagle , a brig sent by the Admiralty in London on a surveying voyage round the world , came to such a forest outside Rio de Janeiro . |
| 22 | Around this time his wage rate came to 2/3 a day , but he rarely worked more than about 10 days in any month , and in some months he did not work at all . |
| 23 | ‘ It came on fine the night I was there . |