Example sentences of "came [prep] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Resolution Trust Corporation , the federal agency that takes over bust thrifts , also has a multi-billion junk-bond portfolio that came with its dilapidated charges . |
| 2 | The brewery was founded in 1853 , started to make wheat beers in the 1890s , and has produced nothing else since it came into its present ownership , the Brombach family , in 1935 . |
| 3 | Eventually when the letter came in its blue envelope with the pious SAG printed across the seal , the hands so firm holding a gun or tool shook as he took it . |
| 4 | At this point Darrel snatched the child from her arms , strode to the open fireplace , pressed it against the blazing logs with his riding boot and held it there until no more sound came from its tiny body . |
| 5 | Its beauty came from its delicate simplicity . |
| 6 | Fire came from its open mouth . |
| 7 | If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable . |
| 8 | A story of local democracy and participatory initiative dating from the reforms of the later 1880s came to its sad close . |
| 9 | When the play came to its painful end , Dorian went to see Sybil . |
| 10 | Eighty years ago Captain Scott 's expedition to the south pole came to its tragic end . |