Example sentences of "[adv] we came to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we came to the AAA Championships . |
| 2 | So we came to the halt , everything worked perfectly and I was astonished how easy this all was , I rather fancy it was the one blade digging gently in and scribing a beautiful arc to port , all the time into wind ; it was the gentlest of one-wheel landings that could ever have been attained . |
| 3 | Finally we came to a high plastic wall . |
| 4 | Soon after setting off we came to a forested valley along the banks of the Gwaun . |
| 5 | Eventually we came to the Old Mill area where there were no railings at the waterside , making the mill pond quite a frightening place for small children . |
| 6 | Eventually we came to an occasion when Eileen was about four years old , the only one of the children not yet at school . |
| 7 | ‘ Eventually we came to a mutual understanding whereby I would fill out five forms to cover each £50 cheque and I actually ended up signing 25 forms and five cheques to obtain my fuel . |
| 8 | A little further on we came to a cairn , a perfect match for the cairn on Rise Hill above Garsdale , and another carefully crafted stone man staring out over Dentdale towards Lonsdale and the Howgills . |
| 9 | A little way on we came to another village , where some of the evicted had been taken in and given shelter . |
| 10 | As we proceeded we kept our eyes skinned and whenever we came to a thicket or undergrowth we beat it with our sticks to stir up the prey . |
| 11 | The nearer we came to Halifax , we found the houses thicker , and the villages greater in every bottom ; and not only so , but the sides of the hills , which were very steep every way , were spread with houses , and that very thick ; for the land being divided into small enclosures , that is to say , from two acres to six or seven acres each seldom more ; every three or four pieces of land had a house belonging to it . |
| 12 | Now we came to the 18th . |
| 13 | Here we came to a cave cut into the cliff as a gunport to deter pirate raiders . |
| 14 | Then we came to Rashidiyeh . |
| 15 | Then we came to a smashed yellow stone façade and a doorway that led down into a cellar . |
| 16 | Then we came to the state dining-room with its long mahogany table and rows of high-backed chairs . |
| 17 | Then we came to refinishing . |
| 18 | A long time ago when I was six years old me and Neil went out mise chifing I chut a stown and it naile it a wondow then we ran off then we came to somedody garben then we clad up there tree and shouted fatet . |
| 19 | They were Miss was the teacher and the , the next three classes I would say with great pleasure , and then we came to one of the old ones which er they were more severe , probably she used the tawse a lot . |
| 20 | And then we came to the flavourings . |
| 21 | And the first was a twelve volt but then we came to a hundred and ten so I just strung it down along the two top wires of the fence and they were live and oh there were about six or nine hen houses attached to the fence with those wires for electricity . |
| 22 | and it was er and then we came to er near er par Prenton |
| 23 | So that was how we came to be sitting in the darkened room with Granny 's coffin on the table , waiting for the neighbours to come and show their last respects . |
| 24 | That is how we came to the conclusion that they should be |
| 25 | I think the reason why it is so is that Darwinism is , in essence , a theory about the origin of man — a lot of things as well , but it includes a theory about how we came to be here . |
| 26 | I asked the conductor to tell me when we came to my stop , and he said , " Lady , you think I got X-ray eyes or something ? |
| 27 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 28 | In 1979 , when we came to office , only 6,000 young people were on training programmes sponsored by the then Labour Government . |
| 29 | Then we clad and ran off home then we went back mishchifing again we came to a boy and shoved he down in the grass and piched is sweet and then we ran off then I made a apple bom then I chudet it then we went home . |
| 30 | That 's why we came to England , to begin a new life . |