Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , these statistics are crude , but they strongly suggest a world in which war may often have seemed prohibitively expensive , especially once it came to be realised that Æthelred 's military operations tended to be unsuccessful . |
| 2 | But she stuck her feet out sideways so that they came against the wall of the hearth . |
| 3 | Of course Luiza should n't be paired with the lanky and very young tenor ; they 'd have to replot the run-up to that part so that she came into the ballroom with someone else . |
| 4 | Whilst these proposals were still before the King , the army marched on London and expelled the leading Presbyterians from the House of Commons so that it came under the control of the Independents . |
| 5 | They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound . |
| 6 | As the excluded social forces grew in political strength , so they pressed in on the established constitution in ways which eventually caused it to buckle so that it came to be more in line with their views as to how things should be . |
| 7 | In fact I knew nothing of his family life — only that he came from the poorest part of the town , a row of " yards " containing tumbledown cottages , some of them evacuated because of their condition . |
| 8 | She racked her brains to remember what she had said about Barnes to David Fairfax , but she had said nothing , only that he came from Woodlands Incorporated — and that , because she was still holding his card in her hand . |
| 9 | They had offered him the position of editor in chief with , apparently , more direct control over the content of the paper , but only if he came off the Board . |
| 10 | Especially if we came to Sheffield . |
| 11 | Finally , as an incipient autocrat , he would not tolerate any interference , or " mediation " , wherever it came from , but especially if it came from foreigners . |
| 12 | I knew a putt would have to drop before long and it came at the 8th , the par-3 ( 178 yards ) . |
| 13 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 14 | Perhaps since she came to London many men had kissed her . |
| 15 | Sue fell in love with the house long before it came on the market . |
| 16 | By this time there was very little he did not know about being a prince ; and long before he came to it he would know more than most men born to it about being a king . |
| 17 | Long after I came to the army as I were telling you I used to go to pictures , I were in the S in the Savoy down Mostyn Street one one night I went and there in the programme there was this old er travel picture er some town or other th . |
| 18 | But unfortunately this did not last for long as we came to a narrow , shallow strip of the river . |
| 19 | It explained everything , though she fought it , fought the nightmare truth of her growing feelings for him , her respect , her admiration , her jealousy , her pain , her longing to make him feel something for her , anything , so long as it came from the heart and not the body … |
| 20 | Mains now realises tat there is a need for a certain amount of public relations work in his job , especially as he came to the coaching position under strained circumstances . |
| 21 | Timely interventions by senior Army officers had already established the ‘ official view ’ that the paratroops had fired only at clearly identifiable targets , and only when they came under heavy fire from gunmen , and nail and petrol bombers ( Curtis , 1984:41–2 ) . |
| 22 | Only when he came through the trees and round the small hill that sheltered the house , only then did he see the soldiers who had camped in the house and the grounds . |
| 23 | She did nothing much about it — Eismark was still just somebody in shipping , not a politician — and it was only when he came onto the Secretariat that she asked for money to do some more work about it . ’ |
| 24 | But that was not enough when it came to the Maastricht debate . |
| 25 | So as we came to a stop the hatch was opened and this young fellow put one foot on the throttle quadrant , another on my shoulder and the next one on the top of my helmet and he was out . |
| 26 | However , Wyllie soon found that he and Whetton were not exactly compatible , especially when it came to matters tactical , and during the 1990 tour of France , Wyllie turned the more often to Brewer for tactical analysis . |
| 27 | especially when it came to humping it into the van the A L O was nowhere to be found . |
| 28 | His love-hate relationship with reporters made headlines , especially when he came to blows with a columnist in a nightclub . |
| 29 | And so when we came to the negotiation process so to say , it was a stalemate . |
| 30 | Then , as now , people were at a loss to help the whales back to deep water , and even more so when it came to explaining the phenomenon . |