Example sentences of "came [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He came off duty at six . |
| 2 | In the West , the main impact of the war , apart from circles with relations serving in the forces , came through demonstrations against it . |
| 3 | Railway travel develops many interesting situations ; but it has created few more bewildering than those occasionally to be seen during the Russian famine , when a number of peasantry , weary of the Czar 's despotic rule and black bread , or no bread at all , came through England on their way to America , and clustered , apparently hopeless , on the platform at the Central Station . |
| 4 | Olechowski 's resignation came during talks with IMF representatives over renewing an agreement with the IMF , suspended in 1991 because of the budget deficit [ see p. 38832 ] . |
| 5 | When the time came for Stalin to be removed from the atheist Pantheon as a heretic , it was done posthumously by transferring his corpse to an obscure place rather like a properly canonised saint having the procedure reversed . |
| 6 | ‘ You see , ’ Waldegrave squirmed on his fat bottom , ‘ he came for confession to me . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's the Best Exercise ! ’ was what she yelled at Robert every time the Dobermann came for Badger at about thirty miles an hour with the clearly expressed intention of biting his head off . |
| 8 | They came for help at a point when Mary was starting to pull her sister 's hair violently and scratch her face in anger . |
| 9 | In 1991–92 , 27pc of people who came for advice from MARC owed more than £10,000 — compared with 8pc owing that amount the previous year . |
| 10 | Cypriot and Irish elders came for employment in earlier years and have stayed ( ibid . ) . |
| 11 | Gossip retailed by those selfsame people , the scions of higher platforms on the social scaffolding , who came for drinks at Cliff Top . |
| 12 | When the time came for civilization on the planet of the Perks , they built war-trains , undermining engines , mole bombs . |
| 13 | The raids on homes in Basildon , Islington and Hackney came as part of an operation in connection with the National Criminal Intelligence Service . |
| 14 | Eventually , however , trade reform came as part of an apparent deal with Brazil 's major creditor , the United States . |
| 15 | The initial setbacks came as part of the local government reforms of the early 1870s . |
| 16 | The latest claims came as part of a campaign by Amnesty International to raise public awareness of persistent human rights abuses in allied countries . |
| 17 | The arrests of 26 people in Palermo , Milan and Modena on March 18 came as part of a police operation to break up what was alleged to be a network operated by the Sicilian Mafia . |
| 18 | This this came as part of a package |
| 19 | In addition there are smaller groups of minority elders , some of whom came as refugees from East Europe , Kenya or Vietnam . |
| 20 | Mr. E.J.W. ( Benny ) Goodman came as Secretary in July 1982 and saw out the year , being replaced by the present Secretary/Manager Brian Lovelock , first in an ‘ acting ’ capacity , but made permanent a year later . |
| 21 | Then the following one we had erm Lord and Lady they came as guests of ours . |
| 22 | Sinclair 's first major involvement in intelligence came as director of naval intelligence from 1919 to 1921 . |
| 23 | The announcement yesterday came after members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union voted heavily in favour of industrial action over the threat of compulsory job losses . |
| 24 | Reports in early December said that agreement to lift the boycott came after talks in Baghdad between government ministers and Kurdish leaders including the head of the Kurdish Democratic Party ( KDP ) , Masoud Barzani , who met Saddam Hussein on Nov. 30 . |
| 25 | GTE Corp has reported first quarter net profits of $460.0m against a loss last time of $2,048m which came after charges of $2,441m for two accounting changes , on turnover that was flat at $4,826m . |
| 26 | The announcement came after reports of heavy fighting between Pakistani and Indian troops in the disputed territory of Kashmir [ see 38392 ] . |
| 27 | The warning , from the American Automobile Association , came after reports of cars being hit by bullets or chunks of concrete on a 10-mile stretch of motorway around Jacksonville . |
| 28 | The decision came after advice from recreation officer Phil Ball . |
| 29 | Bhutto 's dismissal came after months of ethnic violence in Sind [ see pp. 37150-51 ; 37204 ; 37246 ; 37452-53 ] and sharp disagreements with the Army over domestic and foreign policy . |
| 30 | The statement which was issued shortly after a meeting between the UK Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd and the Iranian Foreign Minister , Ali Akbar Vellayati in New York , came after months of intense negotiations between officials of the two countries . |