Example sentences of "and came " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards she parted the curtains and came out naked to lift the unsleeping , finely aware child back into bed , to lie between her and the man lying open-mouthed in post-coital sleep . |
| 2 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 3 | Presbyterians retained a consciousness of their Scottish origins and came to have a significant presence in the local economy and finance institutions , predominating in the North and East . |
| 4 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 5 | The plane bumped to a halt , the engine coughed and died , and two figures in leather flying helmets swung out of the open cockpit and came towards them arm in arm . |
| 6 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 7 | She quickly disappeared out the back and came around the front to greet me . |
| 8 | A student at Lashan Gliding Centre was badly hurt once when the glider lifted off the ground and came down on top of him as he walked by the nose . |
| 9 | Sandy McGlashan , the windlass man , climbed down the ladder and came to sit beside Cameron . |
| 10 | They trotted west straight into the broad golden glare of the sun and came among the scattered settlements of the Rannoch people . |
| 11 | And came upon cacophony . |
| 12 | The Indian woman was born in Kerala , Southern India , and came to this country when she was six . |
| 13 | and came up via Padua , |
| 14 | Kelly finished fourth overall , ousted from second place by Mottet and Wegmuller , and came close to losing the King of the Mountains honour . |
| 15 | Caradon was bought from publishers Reed International for £61m in 1985 and came to the stock market in June 1987 with an initial market value of £134m . |
| 16 | At length , Bunting recalled , ‘ the largest workman rose frowning and came to our table ; but what he said was : ‘ Is it no the great poet , Hugh MacDiarmid ? ’ |
| 17 | It was probable that with a type of aggravated libel , and a defence that was blatantly bogus and came apart during the trial , they decided to add a nought to the amount of damages . ’ |
| 18 | Neil Kinnock , who like Mr Foot is an MP for a south Wales constituency and came to the leadership from the left of the party , described his mentor yesterday as unique and irreplaceable : ‘ Michael is as fit and fiery as ever . |
| 19 | Their pay in paper money was so bad and came so late that unless they had peasant relatives who could supply food , they were reduced to making shoes , singing psalms in church , or hiring themselves out as labourers to peasants . |
| 20 | He worked hard , which was rare among the undergraduates of Magdalene College in those days , and came out with a high degree in mathematics . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ramsey 's father frequently deserted his Congregational church and came to hear his son . |
| 23 | Then the first ‘ maid ’ they ever had was a girl of 16 called Mollie and she had been deserted by her husband and came to live in the house with three tots . |
| 24 | It was the same idea of the Empire as a patrimony , or an estate , the source of a livelihood for the mothercountry , to which Chamberlain had appealed : ‘ I know how our forefathers … bore themselves bravely in the titanic strife with Napoleon and came out victorious . |
| 25 | Fitzgerald 's brain was also haunted by survivals of past literature , ‘ The old music of bygone singers , rich haunting sentences of old leisurely authors , rang in his brain , and came unbidden to his pen . |
| 26 | As soon as we arrived , the bass player , Paul ‘ Bassman ’ Riley , took one look at us and came over with a proposition . |
| 27 | If there were games to be played or work to be done or stories to be read it was always to Rachel that she would turn ; Rachel who went out and came in when she said she would and said ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , not from whim or temper , but with authority . |
| 28 | The doctor smiled quietly , reached for her pad and made a note ; she smiled , walked round the foot of the high couch and came up towards Phoebe left-hand side . |
| 29 | She walked along the passage and came , as she had planned , to the window which made the end wall of that floor . |
| 30 | As relief spread to pure pleasure she waved and came towards him across the yard like a young girl . |