Example sentences of "i came [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
2 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
3 | After a few experiments , I came up with a reasonable facsimile of Rebecca 's accidental assemblage . |
4 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
5 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
6 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
7 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
8 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
9 | I came up with a very simple answer to this problem and hope it will help others . |
10 | Eventually , after canvassing ideas from virtually everyone in the department , I came up with a design , using egg boxes and colanders which Blue Peter decided to use . |
11 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
12 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
13 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
14 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
15 | thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
16 | A passion born of the habit I came by as a girl at school . |
17 | I thought you said there 'd be no problem if I came in on a six-month permit ? ’ |
18 | ‘ I came in with a bad knee and it just started getting worse , ’ the 13th-seeded Lendl said . |
19 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
20 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
21 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
22 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
23 | Finally I came in as a ‘ check ’ knitter , making the garment to the written instructions to see that there were no errors in them . |
24 | I came in as a young teacher , enthusiastic , full of new ideas but you soon find that the old attitudes rub off on you , and so you end up thinking , ‘ Oh , why am I doing this ? |
25 | On Saturday 4 June , I came in from a morning 's canvassing in Sutton Coldfield to find an urgent message to call Conservative Central Office . |
26 | After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat . |
27 | A day or so later , I came down with a very nasty bout of influenza . |
28 | Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell-hole just outside our wire . ’ |
29 | And that was er I did n't come back with an Line boat , I came back with a erm Canadian Pacific Boat . |
30 | And still laughing , Charlie said , ‘ But I did what you lot did n't do : I came back with an Irish jig , and then , ‘ We 'll Meet Again ’ and ‘ Roll Out The Barrel ’ . |