Example sentences of "[subord] a [noun] came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Arlidge asked : ‘ Supposing a man came to the bakery and said , ‘ Mr Kuc please sell me your kidney ’ . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Arlidge asked : ‘ Supposing a man came to the bakery and said , ‘ Mr Kuc please sell me your kidney ’ . ’ |
| 3 | The baby , who was born in Russia , was destined to spend her life abandoned in an institution — until a nurse came to her rescue . |
| 4 | There was no response and the meeting continued on another tack until a man came from the back of the room with a story about how he had , in the pitch black night , walked straight into a lamp post on his way home the night before : hence the severe head pains . |
| 5 | I waited until a break came in the pain , and then pinned a healthy smile on my face and told her I felt perfectly well . |
| 6 | That is to say , if a person came to blows with another , the shaikhs negotiated peace to contain and settle the dispute , to protect the interests of members of their lineage who were not fighting . |
| 7 | For example , if a person came to me suffering from rounded shoulders I might give him or her an instruction to ‘ think of your shoulders going away from each other ’ . |
| 8 | well Jess , Jess will sort of , if a cat came into our garden , she 'd see it off |
| 9 | For instance , if a man came into the station and said , ‘ The man next door has stolen a bottle of milk from my doorstep , ’ in the Met. , they would say : ‘ This man has made an accusation . |
| 10 | But if a matter came to a head that withdrawing my labour was the only way to resolve it , that I thought was the only way to resolve it , I 'd go out and do it again . |
| 11 | She walked feverishly up and down the room , until an idea came to her . |
| 12 | All his life Eddie would stop if an idea came to him , even in the middle of the road ; in the First World War shortsighted Dilly tried to become a night-time despatch rider , claiming that in the dark there was no difference between good sight and bad . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't want to sell them , but if an offer came in that was right for the club and right for the player , then we would consider it , just as any club would in the lower divisions in the same position . |
| 14 | Even there it would seem that he was known because a woman came to him and asked him to drive out an unclean spirit from her daughter . |
| 15 | Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance . |
| 16 | Miss Jeanette told Teesside Crown Court : ‘ As a policeman came across Darren said ‘ If he asks where I was say I was with you . ’ ’ |
| 17 | For a whole week now I had dreamed of a small child every night , and perhaps Bessie was right , as a message came from Gateshead . |
| 18 | ‘ They 're looking at us ! ’ screamed Emily , promptly disappearing from view underwater ; Alice waved to Alfred and promptly followed her example , as a scream came from behind . |
| 19 | When a child came in this morning , the one I , that we accused of taking that out , he said he did n't take it , I went on and on and on , he said he did n't take it , I said I want a letter from your father to say that you bought it then , that does n't mean anything , the father could lie . |
| 20 | It was quite a different situation when a grandchild came into the grandparent 's home through the death or desertion of one or both parents . |
| 21 | When a tap came on the door she did n't answer , but when it came again , she called quietly , ‘ Come in . ’ |
| 22 | A similar point is made now in the context of assemblies : " When a man came to the assembly from one of the regions , the king was concerned to ask him what news he had brought with him that ought to be reported and discussed , and he would be strictly required before he next returned to the palace to make exhaustive enquiries outside as well as within the realm , getting information from outsiders as well as from his own people , and from enemies as well as from friends , without concerning himself overmuch about how any person questioned had come by his information . " |
| 23 | She was sitting in a daze on the edge of the bed when a head came round the partition , saying , ‘ You had better put a move on else you 'll get scalped . ’ |
| 24 | When a message came from a friend in Prague that their mother had disappeared , Miss Harder did everything she could to console them and they became very close . |
| 25 | He was at the end of his patience when a message came from Merymose . |
| 26 | She began to unpack , trying to puzzle things out , and when a knock came on the door she opened it without thinking , her mind still elsewhere . |
| 27 | In the 1590s it appeared that there were already two reversioners to the post of Clerk to the Privy Seal , when a request came from Edward Reynolds for a third . |
| 28 | Yet when a chance came to her — a few extra lines , a small but important part — she would forget to learn the lines , forget to come in on cue and for a while would not be asked again . |
| 29 | Eileen was home on leave when a letter came from Terry to tell them that he was off to France . |
| 30 | ‘ It was about 5.30pm , pouring with rain outside and I was making Sophie 's tea when a preacher came to the door and broke the news , but like everyone in that situation you just do n't believe it . |