Example sentences of "came [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith was in fine bludgeoning form , but Gower showed restraint , collecting two twos and 25 singles in his 29 , which came off 52 deliveries . |
| 2 | Hitch , then of Horden and Peterlee , now professional , unluckily lost a majority points decision after a ludicrous bout in which Noi 's headguard came off six times in one round . |
| 3 | Darren Bicknell ( 33 ) and Alistair Brown smashed 56 off just over five overs — Bicknell hooking Mark Ilott for six in the paceman 's opening over while Brown 's 36 came off 21 balls and included two sixes and two fours . |
| 4 | IBM 's desktop RS/6000s clocked up $470m of the $1,000m , other workstations $360m , with deskside machines taking $160m and rack-mounts $1m. 36% of sales were direct , 34% came through value-added resellers and 30% from other IBM agents : the company projects 1993 figures at 40% , 30% and 30% through these channels respectively . |
| 5 | The indivisible electron came through both slits ! |
| 6 | The words came through clenched teeth , and , lifting her hand , Dawn hit Robert hard on his cheek . |
| 7 | Came between two crags , blackish sand . |
| 8 | Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally . |
| 9 | The turning point , the moment when the era rightly began , came during those years between America 's Sixties triumph — Neil Armstrong 's first footsteps on the Sea of Tranquillity in 1969 — and that most doleful moment of the Seventies , when the last US Marines were evacuated from the roof of the embassy in Saigon in 1975 . |
| 10 | ‘ We just came for five years … ’ : writings about young life in Jamaica and adult life in England . |
| 11 | Many of them pass it on to their wives ; 1% of the women who came for pre-natal tests at the hospital were HIV-positive . |
| 12 | They came for six months after seven day wonder , something had happened to us . |
| 13 | , and they came for eighteen months , two years , at the end of which the quality of the work had deteriorated , price was rocketing up |
| 14 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 15 | The announcement of the Westcott redundancies came as monthly figures were released showing unemployment coming down across the region . |
| 16 | The disclosure by the state and defence departments came as United Nations officials in Sarajevo announced that Serb militiamen had allowed a ten-truck UN relief convoy , halted for days at a checkpoint in eastern Bosnia , to continue towards the encircled town of Gorazde . |
| 17 | The astonishing attack came as enraged creditors branded the disgraced coach chief ‘ scum , ’ a ‘ cheat ’ and a ‘ fraud . ’ |
| 18 | The first one came after 27 minutes , when Neil Matthews beat everyone else to the ball . |
| 19 | Their first goal came after 32 minutes , thanks partly to Chris Short . |
| 20 | They complained that they could not get loans from LEDU and if they did , the money only came after long delays . |
| 21 | The agreement , which came after five hours of talks , established ceilings for NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries which restricted each side to 20,000 tanks , 20,000 artillery pieces and 30,000 fighting vehicles . |
| 22 | The first of the tries came after six minutes after Neil Jenkins had already landed a 30-metre penalty . |
| 23 | The vote for independence came after two days of acrimonious debate between the Lithuanian majority and the Russian Polish minority , who were joined by a handful of old-guard Lithuanian Communists . |
| 24 | The plan , whose passage through parliament remains highly uncertain , came after two days of hectic government activity and almost permanent crisis meetings following a currency outflow of £1.5 billion on Friday alone . |
| 25 | The resolution , supported by all 15 members of the Security Council , came after two days of debate involving more than 60 speakers including the president of the African National Congress ( ANC ) Nelson Mandela , the South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha and 10 other African foreign ministers . |
| 26 | The decisive goal came after 57 minutes when Holdsworth 's centre was missed by Mimms who was under pressure from Nogan . |
| 27 | The first came after 10 minutes with a fine flick shot . |
| 28 | The first shock of the night came after 10 minutes when Darren Boughey scored a fine solo goal for the part-timers . |
| 29 | First goal came after 10 minutes ; a hook in from Dave Mitchell . |
| 30 | In all , Hughes missed four clear chances but he was not to be denied and his 11th goal of the season came after 41 minutes . |