Example sentences of "[noun sg] came " in BNC.
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| 61 | When a sympathetic ex-boyfriend came along , she allowed herself to be seduced by him . |
| 62 | When I called him out for it , Fest came between us . |
| 63 | To administer and collect income tax a new arm of administration had to be created comprising experts , officials and clerks : an " army " which in terms of its efficiency and rapacity came to be the equal of the long-esteemed Excise . |
| 64 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |
| 65 | The Valencia trainer came on to the pitch and was ushered back towards the tunnel by Fernando Giner , a home defender . |
| 66 | The Australian trainer came on with a bucket of water to try to revive the apparently comatose Fulton . |
| 67 | This screening came at about midnight , after a traditional Elizabethan dinner and free drinks , with an 8.30am departure due the following day . |
| 68 | By the time he had staggered into the yard he could hardly stand up , hitting the ancient , mossy mounting block and tripping over one of the green tubs filled with white geraniums , as Little Chef came bounding out to lick him on the nose . |
| 69 | The trees and undergrowth came almost up to the house . |
| 70 | Overseas aid came in from many quarters ( including South Africa ) ; the landlocked Zambians brought in health officials from all their neighbours to try to limit the spread of the disease , which nevertheless struck Malawi . |
| 71 | The main thrust for use of videos as an aid came from the three Welsh areas — just under three-quarters seeing it as an aid that could improve training . |
| 72 | Three-quarters of this aid came from the United States . |
| 73 | One day an elderly lady with a hearing aid came in and I was doing her hair , chatting away and making her laugh , and I cut right through the wire ! |
| 74 | No aid came . |
| 75 | But aid came from an unlikely quarter . |
| 76 | Water Aid came in , do n't do that , and installed a pipeline . |
| 77 | The first official and public indication that the Soviet Union was seeking large-scale Western aid came at a press conference between Gorbachev and Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on May 22 , when Gorbachev made plain his desire to attend the July G-7 meeting . |
| 78 | Newent ambulance station stopped providing nightime cover last March , so the ambulance which went to Mr Pollard 's aid came from Cinderford , ten miles away . |
| 79 | Food lay like clods of clay in his stomach and it rained , but he was supported by a sense of majesty in ideas and even in himself for having them , though this latter maintenance came and went . |
| 80 | As he watched , the first few flakes of snow came swirling down . |
| 81 | After the snow came the rain . |
| 82 | Nicholson wondered , if the snow came , what he could expect this time . |
| 83 | He was soon helped by Madra and Isay , and the trio worked with a will in the growing twilight as the snow came down more thickly and visibility worsened . |
| 84 | According to the author , the princess 's lowest ebb came with the publication earlier this year of the so-called Dianagate tape — allegedly the recording of an intimate telephone conversation with her longtime friend James Gilbey . |
| 85 | According to the author , the Princess 's lowest ebb came with the publication earlier this year of the so-called Dianagate tape allegedly the recording of an intimate telephone conversation between the Princess and her long-time friend , James Gilbey . |
| 86 | The allegation came on the third day of an insurance fraud trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 87 | She was not in his class as far as taunting came , and readily admitted it . |
| 88 | SPLASH came down to view Europe 's best after the European Championships at Warrington . |
| 89 | It was n't me , ’ this chant came automatically into her head . |
| 90 | Examples of the former — recombining existing elements — would be the way this eclecticism in 1960s rock came into being in the first place , formed as it was from disparate sources , including many elements from bourgeois ‘ art music ’ ; or the way rhythmic techniques derived from working-class black American music were combined with other elements in 1920s dance music to signify a kind of safe but exotic , hedonist escapism for a broad grouping of classes in Britain . |