Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] came and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 2 | The storm came and drove them into their flimsy shelter . |
| 3 | The footman came and dismantled it for me and I brought a chair to the French windows , quite casually , and there was natural light coming in . |
| 4 | and erm and that 's what erm , the teacher came and said she 'd fallen out of erm one of the , er I think she said bogeys or something ? |
| 5 | ‘ The coroner came and said my husband must have been drunk , fell and drowned . |
| 6 | And what is it , they took no note and the flood came and swept them all away . |
| 7 | A young noblewoman , a widow on a journey to her late husband 's grave , but the King came and saw her . |
| 8 | Sure enough , the wolf came and devoured him ; only his skull was left which went on reiterating the prophecy of doom for Rome . |
| 9 | I did n't quite belong in the Jewish dorf-just as well , because horsemen came through more than once and left blood and burnt timbers behind them — and did n't quite belong in the hamlet where my father 's people lived — maybe just as well also , because the crucifixes on their walls did n't save them when the cholera came and brought its own kind of pogrom . |
| 10 | Well I started a clear , er the chap came and showed me , he says , You 're alright lad , he said , This is how you do it , Ten shovels and it was clear . |
| 11 | The pain came and crushed her away . |
| 12 | it was a it was full pass inside to two fullbacks er , for the Southampton player that was running on this fullback shaded it away you know , guiding him out of it , he 's running to the e sa Smeichel came out to the edge of the area but he was like right on the edge as the player was coming to him , so he just let it roll a little bit further , he stopped it with his foot , the guy came and tackled him off got it instead of just picking it up with his hand , I mean he was actually in the area but like he was right on the edge and he took a step back |
| 13 | I put my head round the corner : ‘ What if a horse came and broke his leg on the ice ? ’ |
| 14 | A footman came and did something deft with a spoon and a plate and a linen napkin . |
| 15 | A teacher came and saw what was happening , but he did n't try to stop it . |
| 16 | A waitress came and took their order in broken English though Sophia had started to speak Italian to her . |
| 17 | ‘ A man came and showed us slides of both Australia and Canada . |
| 18 | A doctor came and examined me ; I moaned throughout the inspection . |
| 19 | At the hospital I was put into a side room and a nurse came and examined me . |
| 20 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |