Example sentences of "we came " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tell the laird , ’ he shouted out , ‘ that we will have him out here , to hear us for himself — that is what we came for and we will stand here till we see him . |
| 2 | ‘ We came here to register , then we 'll go home , ’ said a man from Halle . |
| 3 | At the first sign we came to , women were bashing wheat sheaves against rocks and men squatted in the dust playing a game with pebbles . |
| 4 | It was a memorable flight because the wings iced over , forcing the pilot to dive , and left Lord Aldington feeling that ‘ we came close to death ’ . |
| 5 | We came to the Shirt of Nessus . |
| 6 | The particular section within Easton station upon which we came to focus attention was decided by us not the police management . |
| 7 | Thus , offenders who invoke their Protestant religion as a means of justifying some action get short shrift , although we came across only one instance where this was done . |
| 8 | About a hundred yards from the village we came under automatic fire from somewhere on our left , and continued the rest of the way walking in the ditch . |
| 9 | The aircraft were still dropping the canisters as we came near to the dropping zone . |
| 10 | Soon after setting off we came to a forested valley along the banks of the Gwaun . |
| 11 | We may have a glimpse of sympathetic magic in ‘ when we came back , late , from the hyacinth garden , / Your arms full , and your hair wet … |
| 12 | It is not too much to say that we entered the conference in the law and atmosphere of the 17th century and we came out with a fair prospect of 20th century conditions . ' |
| 13 | Everything has gone right since we came here , ’ said Denis who now has Wayne Swinscoe as a neighbour and occasional drinking partner . |
| 14 | But we also had the attendant holding the door for us as we came out of the changing room because the wind was threatening to tear it off its hinges , as well as relentlessly trying to move the deep end up to the shallow end . |
| 15 | My husband had come to collect us at the airport and we came back here in a minicar . |
| 16 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |
| 17 | Not that we came just to see you . |
| 18 | Think rather , ‘ When from France And those old German wars we came back here Already it was the mind 's swift haunting glance Towards the further past , that made time dear . ’ |
| 19 | We came out into a lovely night : the effect of the quiet town , in the moonlight , with the snowclad hills behind is one that I sha n't soon forget , ’ wrote Warnie . |
| 20 | Which is where we came in . |
| 21 | We came by ourselves . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ People seemed to disappear under debris , and we came to a rest . |
| 23 | Year after year we came home convinced that ‘ all-German ’ emotions , though officially discouraged on one side and dormant on the other , were far from dead , and that the post-war arrangements in central Europe were therefore a lot less permanent than they might seem . |
| 24 | In fact on the basis worked out for the seedings , we came fifth out of six . ’ |
| 25 | In fact on the basis worked out for the seedings , we came fifth out of six . ’ |
| 26 | What put the top hat on it was , when we came back , Debbie sat on the sofa and cried ‘ Mum , I 'm so fed up of being amnesic ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ In a cliff on the edge of the city , about 2,500ft up from the valley floor , we came on an old tomb , full of bones and ceramic pieces . |
| 28 | We first performed it in New York where a crazy art dealer decided to bring it to London , so to London we came . |
| 29 | Mick Ronson : ‘ We toured the States followed by Japan , and by the time we came back to England , it was beginning to really snowball . |
| 30 | ‘ You noticed that guy I said hello to when we came in , the one on the door ? ’ |