Example sentences of "came [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , as Ladbrokes shortened Nashwan 's odds for next Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from 2-1 to 7-4 with a run , French Glory came down a point to 7-1 amid rumours that Pat Eddery would switch to him from Khalid Abdullah 's other probable runner , Assatis . |
| 2 | Husband Tony added : ‘ The results came through a lot quicker than we expected . |
| 3 | It came over a treat on the radio transmitter when I played it back … ’ |
| 4 | And then he came over a rise and saw the lake below . |
| 5 | The English came over a crest , face to face with the Lord Owen in open field . |
| 6 | They were just there , suddenly , as we came over a hill and saw a river below us . |
| 7 | Having a bit of a rest in the winter , I was able to relax a little bit more , so I think I came over a lot fresher than I normally do for the start of the season . |
| 8 | The noise was stilled as a voice came over a microphone . |
| 9 | If one analyses the appeal of desktop publishing the basic appeal is its capability to generate material that looks printed , not like something that came off a daisywheel or dot matrix printer . |
| 10 | The night shift volunteer was standing next to me getting ready to come on to the phones and as I came off a call he started to chat to me . |
| 11 | A suitable window frame came off a skip behind a local double glazing merchant , and was incorporated into the studwork . |
| 12 | ‘ The roof came off a woman 's house , and we all helped to save what we could . |
| 13 | The tailpieces look like they came off an Eko electric from the '60s , and they 've added squiggly wire designs that echo the famous ‘ R ’ tailpiece — from fifty feet , anyway . |
| 14 | I was a gambler on a winning streak : it did n't matter what number I placed my bet on , it always came up a winner . |
| 15 | Jonna 's chin came up a fraction and he looked his father straight in the eye . |
| 16 | God knows they have trouble enough so IBM would appreciate it if we were perfectly clear on a couple of points that came up a fortnight ago ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 17 | Yes we used to go to see her , and she came up a couple of times . |
| 18 | Her turn to act as hostess came up a month after Nora had returned to Northumberland . |
| 19 | He stretched out his hand and tried to pick it up , and the plank came up an inch with it . |
| 20 | Joe trotted off and came back a couple of minutes later , holding a parcel . |
| 21 | He came back a couple of weeks ago and this time approached me rather than Rex . |
| 22 | He came back a day or two later and they told him it definitely had been available before nineteen thirty-nine . ’ |
| 23 | But when she heard her children were being maltreated she came back a year later and fought to have them returned to her . |
| 24 | 67-year-old , took early retirement from engineers seven years ago , but came back a year later to become the head office caretaker . |
| 25 | But he did n't even wait to hear her protests that she was all right , and came back a minute later with two hospital pillows which he arranged for her , and she thought the faintly male , musky and intensely sensual smell of him as he bent over her was making her more faint than loss of blood . |
| 26 | Thomas went out , came back a moment later with an object draped in blue velvet which he positioned carefully on a low table . |
| 27 | My confidence came back a lot towards the end of the season . |
| 28 | She came back a week or so later to Farnham , plastered , in the literal sense , and indomitable . |
| 29 | When they came back an hour and a quarter later , the meal seemed scarcely begun . |
| 30 | He came back an hour later , looking as smug as a cat who 'd stolen the cream . |