Example sentences of "they came " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chirwas say they came to see a sick relative . |
| 2 | They came from a poem about the founding of Rome . |
| 3 | His parents did not get on and parted during the war , which put an end to the old hierarchic world of Amnersfield , where you were not to look at your masters when they came up the drive , but to hoe on regardless . |
| 4 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 5 | They came out and she gushed . |
| 6 | They even tried next door , but when they discovered our neighbours do n't use cocopeat , they came straight back again ! |
| 7 | I believe they came to hear jolly conference stories about ‘ drug fiends ’ and ‘ acid heads ’ , but the paper concluded : |
| 8 | His mother looked nervously at them as they came in long after dark — she was obdurately against the recalling of ‘ the bad old times ’ and she would neither ask them what they had seen nor let them tell her . |
| 9 | They did ask him , however , and they came in hundreds for the purpose . |
| 10 | Supposing they came down on us with Thomson the constable from Pitnacree — they could arrest us all , and behead the movement ! , |
| 11 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 12 | ‘ Where so old Iain Logan ? ’ said old Donald irritably as they came abreast . |
| 13 | Well before noon , beside a small church whose roof sagged under clumps of grass and willow-herb , they came to the bridge over to Grandtully and looked across at the dense little settlement , lumpish houses made of undressed river boulders with brown smoke streaming through their heather thatch , hovels of branches littered through the trees , a few solid cottages with level roof-trees . |
| 14 | If they came . |
| 15 | They came in all shapes and sizes ; and all of them claimed to have become permanent partners . |
| 16 | They came to the edge of the moors and turned down a steep track towards the beach . |
| 17 | They came complete with David Ward 's recommendation , and an assurance that the price , though never publicly disclosed , was ‘ generous ’ . |
| 18 | The immediate success of these fillings , and the brown bread they came in , reflected John Bull 's broadening palate . |
| 19 | One day they came to take us away , saying it would be better for us — what do they know ? |
| 20 | They came from 14-2 down at the break , and Trinity 's failure was compounded by the sending off of Mark Conway . |
| 21 | Portsmouth must take some of the blame for the stalemate for they came defensively formed and defensively minded , and content to rely on breakaways to snatch an equaliser and , faintly possibly , a winner . |
| 22 | After a ritual distribution of chocolate and biscuits — they came in handy later — we wheeled out of the Kathmandu Guest House and into the demolition derby of old Kathmandu . |
| 23 | They came straight back down in 1969 , and on a record 14 occasions have owed continued League status to the old block vote system of re-election . |
| 24 | They came from almost every variety of home , from one grandson of a duke to the son of someone who survived on a small-holding . |
| 25 | They came with their ideals , found idyllic peace in the countryside , where a man could hardly fail to notice God in the quietness ; said their prayers in one of the fairest little parish churches in all the land ; reacted against , and then threw themselves into the orderliness of quasi-monastic life ; and studied what they wanted , and thought about truth . |
| 26 | But when they came they were distressing and they particularly distressed the bishop responsible for healing ; because Christians are not supposed to quarrel , and quarrelling about clothes or tinklings or perfume looked like fanaticism or obsession with triviality . |
| 27 | They came to me because they were unhappy with their agent and wanted to change to me . |
| 28 | Whenever they came into the shop Steve 'd be on about : where 's the action ? |
| 29 | They came in right at the end of the period I spent working there I never owned one myself — although I 'd sometimes wear one in the shop I thought they were stupid . |
| 30 | Then , on one occasion , Malcolm happened to be around when they came in . |