Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [noun] came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six months after Opren came off the market he proposed no improvements but whatever changes we make in our monitoring system ‘ it is almost certain ’ , he assured us , ‘ there will be another such incident sooner or later ’ . |
| 2 | Her mother spent a weekend with us about six months after Shanti came to us , to reassure herself that for us to adopt Shanti was really what she wanted . |
| 3 | She dragged herself to her feet as Penry came into the room , wearing a dressing-gown . |
| 4 | When Mary I married Philip of Spain she decreed they ruled England jointly , and for the next few years until Elizabeth came to the throne the following strange convention was adopted for recording their regnal years : On 17 March 1649 the monarchy was abolished and during the period until parliamentary government was overtaken by the Restoration , English official documents were dated by the year of grace . |
| 5 | Frodo indeed laughs himself : ‘ Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth . |
| 6 | Thirty years since Asterix came to life , sales of the books — 28 so far — have topped 180 million ( Asterix 's magic potion for superhuman strength enables them all to speak in 29 languages ) . |
| 7 | A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another . |
| 8 | It was to be a good many years before Coniston came within the sphere of operations however . |
| 9 | McCluskey , a summer recruit from Portadown , scored two tries as Instonians came from behind for a comfortable win . |
| 10 | Erm some people around , particularly a the Asian population around w then became worried about what sort of support they would actually get from , the police in real terms if outsiders came into the area . |
| 11 | Mossadeq received him in bed ; he fluttered his hands as Harriman came into the room and launched into a fluting tirade against the British . |
| 12 | There may have been queues in the streets when Derrida came to Oxford recently . |
| 13 | The three governments directly involved in the dispute with Libya — France , the United Kingdom and the USA — watched with some concern the response of other UN member states as sanctions came into force . |