Example sentences of "[subord] i came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Back where I came from . |
| 2 | ‘ I wo n't get a fellow , I 'm from nowhere , a decent fellow would n't be able to talk about me and where I came from . |
| 3 | Now I go back to my home where I came from . |
| 4 | Where I came from no one spoke of such things . |
| 5 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 6 | Where I came from . ’ |
| 7 | But I was bad again , so I came off it . |
| 8 | There was no time to contact him , so I came on the off-chance . |
| 9 | ‘ She was going back here so I came with her . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was at Queen Eleanor 's and they urged me to go to university , but I wanted to be independent , so I came into the Met . ’ |
| 11 | The front door was still locked and bolted — I 'd only used the back one since I 'd got here — and the keys were out the back , so I came in here to open these french windows . |
| 12 | ‘ I was n't sure if I was supposed to be wandering round , and I was going to bring Gwendoline Bear with me for company , but she does n't like strangers , so I came by myself . ’ |
| 13 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 14 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 15 | I did n't make a systematic study but I occasionally followed up clues if I came across references in books and catalogues . |
| 16 | Their veteran prop Kevin Ward commented : ‘ I never knew there was so much intense rivalry between the two clubs until I came to St Helens . |
| 17 | now I thought I knew what that word meant until I came to the assembly . |
| 18 | I went well beyond the carob until I came to strands of wire running through the trees , at the edge of the inland bluff , the eastern limit of Bourani . |
| 19 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 20 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 21 | I never understood until I came to Taipei and we met again , when I started to realise why I 'd always reacted so strongly to you . |
| 22 | Nervously , I moved forward , fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole . |
| 23 | Unconcerned by Peck 's manner , Noah replied , ‘ Nor I of you until I came to Oxfordshire to attend the wedding of my daughter . |
| 24 | I had no idea university politics were so cut-throat until I came to Oxford . |
| 25 | I waded out over the shallows until I came to them , and gathered the ones I could , looking up from my harvest as Esmerelda and kite struck out for the North Sea . |
| 26 | It 's not something I particularly thought an awful lot of until I came on crime prevention , because before that I was in police uniform with marked cars with the radio , although half the time in Harlow , the radios do n't work cos we 're getting . |
| 27 | The climb continued by Knarlton hoot to Hudson Quarry , where wild sage was growing thickly amongst the limestone and grass , until I came at last to the rougher pasture below Hazely . |
| 28 | Until I came of age he wanted the pictures to be in his ex-wife 's custody . |
| 29 | As the sun began to go down , I wandered happily through the ruins until I came across a band of Timurid star-vaulting in one of the side chambers . |
| 30 | until I came across a small display above bottles of castor oil , laxa suppositories and a well known laxative was a sign reduced for clearance ! |