Example sentences of "came [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When reports came in of the spread of an eye disease in Cuba that was caused by malnutrition , they rushed to send packets of vitamins . |
| 2 | At different times during the war , reports came in of the need for jet fuel . |
| 3 | Reports came in of the landing of Iraqi military personnel on the uninhabited Kuwaiti island of Bubiyan . |
| 4 | Taxi proprietors were discussing the problem with senior Huddersfield police early on Tuesday evening when news came through of the stabbing of Mr Andrew Brown , aged 24 , of Birds Edge , near Penistone , South Yorkshire , at Three Star Taxis ' office in Beast Market . |
| 5 | : I was on duty in the RAF at Ismailia when word came through of the King 's death . |
| 6 | I was about to throw it at one of the maids as she passed beneath me with a tray of glasses , but just then Claire came out of the reception room . |
| 7 | A tall thin man came out of the shadows at the bottom of the stone steps . |
| 8 | ‘ In the end the stipends come from Pretoria , ’ he said , noting that more than half the Transkeian budget came out of the South African coffers . |
| 9 | A pass from Venus sounds like the definitive long-ball game , and Villa 's central defenders , Paul McGrath and Mountfield , did well to defend a series of attacks that came out of the night sky . |
| 10 | For of all those peppered by the shotgun blast of criticism that came out of the Cleveland inquiry , where in little more than three months 121 children were diagnosed as actual or possible victims of child sexual abuse , only Dr Higgs still does not know her future and faces effective dismissal . |
| 11 | My work came out of the social situation within which I found myself … ’ |
| 12 | An Officer came out of the caravan as we drew up . |
| 13 | We had a good field of fire all round in case the enemy came out of the sunken road or over the hedge . |
| 14 | It was one of the schools that came out of the Reformation , for it was founded during the reign of Queen Mary by a landowner who sat for Derbyshire in Parliament . |
| 15 | One other book came out of the Durham days , though it was not published till later . |
| 16 | It blessed the religious communities and thereby committed the Anglican Communion to an official acceptance of monks and nuns in a way which was so far unique to the Churches which came out of the Reformation . |
| 17 | But we also had the attendant holding the door for us as we came out of the changing room because the wind was threatening to tear it off its hinges , as well as relentlessly trying to move the deep end up to the shallow end . |
| 18 | She came out of the room , pulling her bag of soiled linen , and because she was n't looking where she was going , almost cannoned into a tall dark girl . |
| 19 | Charles had his own household to deal with his affairs which he had brought together when he came out of the forces . |
| 20 | Once he came out of the Navy , Charles became a little more involved , but it was not really until the end of the decade , after Mountbatten 's death , when he was looking for a real job to do , that Charles took up the reins himself . |
| 21 | Through the successive phases of his career — at Gainsborough , Gaumont-British and then at his own Ealing Studios — he was to show that his talent lay in finding the most talented people available , giving them the best context to work in , inspiring and stimulating their efforts and intervening where necessary to ensure that the best possible film came out of the production process . |
| 22 | The poppy-seller , ‘ one of the boys in the 8th Army ’ , came out of the war with a bit of shrapnel in the back of his neck — and a more permanent suspicion of German reunification . |
| 23 | A Western resident of Timisoara said that the scale of the violence in the town on Sunday was horrifying , while a Yugoslav lorry driver who came out of the region yesterday reported seeing fires . |
| 24 | Scientists have studied how the cloud of electrons , protons and neutrons that came out of the big bang would have coalesced to make nuclei and atoms ; their studies correctly predict the proportion of various chemical elements in the universe . |
| 25 | Jane came out of the tube station and walked along the road . |
| 26 | An old man came out of the baker 's and his young dog greeted him . |
| 27 | As they came out of the house Philip saw two girls , quite old . |
| 28 | Philip came out of the shed and slipped out the back where the fence was broken . |
| 29 | Philip 's Mum came out of the house . |
| 30 | When we came out of the Clerecia , after dipping hands in the holy water stoup and placing a drop on each other 's brows , as we had seen the novios and novias do ( the boy on entering a church would dip his hand in the water and transfer a drop to his fiancée 's fingertip so that they could cross themselves in unison ) , we would go into La Casa de las Conchas next to the Clerecia , with elaborate wrought-iron window-grilles and its tranquil courtyard , and sit there quietly for a while , thinking of the next poem , or of the one we were working on . |