Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] came [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Research ( depth research naturally ) among some Chicago car owners came up with the following automobile ‘ personalities ' : Cadillac — flashy ; Ford — young and speedy ; DeSoto — conservative and responsible ; Pontiac — stable and conventional ; Mercury — assertive and modern .
2 Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before .
3 Water companies came out of the study well , with the ten privatised companies all on the top 24 profit-makers ' list .
4 The mine captains came up from the ranks , having been tributers and tutworkers themselves .
5 He switched on the refrigeration unit , and as it shivered into life the counter lights came on under the glass .
6 As the smoke cleared and the dust settled , two fighter planes came in over the fields and circled the remains of the barn .
7 The tiny river sounds came in through the open hatches .
8 Then the removal men came out of the house for the last time , wiping their brows on their once-white aprons , and then they helped down from the van a little old lady .
9 Frontier youth workers came up against the destructive , deceptive nature of evil in many of its present forms .
10 The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money .
11 Then one of the travelling craftsmen came out from the town and lined the cart , trap or wagon we happened to be making : that means he painted the finishing touches , the lines on the wheels and the panels .
12 The 1970s LP reissues came about through the vision and advocacy of Jerrold Northrop Moore , who knew how important Elgar 's recorded performances were to an understanding of the composer and his music .
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