Example sentences of "[noun sg] came " in BNC.
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| 31 | The reply came nonchalantly . |
| 32 | The reply came coldly . |
| 33 | The reply came frankly . |
| 34 | His reply came nonchalantly . |
| 35 | Anna 's reply came out as hardly more than a whisper . |
| 36 | The reply came back : ‘ Neither do I , Sibylle . ’ |
| 37 | Each time a drawing came out that looked ‘ all right ’ , he seethed with dissatisfaction , tore it up and started again . |
| 38 | The new talent came exclusively from television , with the exception of Nicolas Roeg , a cameraman who made his directorial début with Donald Cammell on Performance ( 1970 ) , about the weird results of a meeting between a strong-arm gangster and a drop-out pop star . |
| 39 | ’ The same talent came into play whenever the religious issue surfaced . |
| 40 | My comparative lack of basic talent came home to me on the practice ground before the first round of the Amateur . |
| 41 | But we saved the Queen 's fair fame , and to Rudolf himself the fatal stroke came as a relief from a choice too difficult : on the one side lay what impaired his own honour , on the other what threatened hers . |
| 42 | No second stroke came . |
| 43 | Election night 's first intimation of disaster for Labour came from Basildon . |
| 44 | Although many of the better-paid staff , especially those with engineering expertise , were brought in from all over the country , much of the local labour came from the town of Bridgwater , ten miles away by road . |
| 45 | At this level of support the electoral system begins to work very handsomely in a party 's favour , and Labour came first in over three-quarters of the wards . |
| 46 | In fact , Labour came second in seven out of ten council seats , and in the Euro elections , the SLD came fourth behind the Greens . |
| 47 | And it was this convergence that engendered a tradition among the working-class electorate of voting Labour ; Labour came to be identified with working-class interests as it had never been before . |
| 48 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 49 | Many , however , came to accept it in the context of their hopes for future labour success : capitalist bureaucracy was undesirable , but when labour came to dominate Parliament , the bureaucracy would act in sympathy with the needs and condition of the working class and would no longer be regarded as an alien intrusion . |
| 50 | In their study of Yorkshire during the 1984–5 strike , for example , Winterton and Winterton ( 1989 : see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) found that the strike breakers were more likely to live outside the mining communities , thereby producing a geography whereby the strike was strongest ( and longest ) in the pits whose labour came mainly from local , closed communities : in Nottinghamshire , of course , the opposite occurred , with the closed communities being solid against the strike . |
| 51 | On the other hand Labour came to power in London in 1934 , re-elected in 1937 . |
| 52 | Nor was the British Labour came to Morocco that Mrs Margaret Thatcher , the leader of the Conservative Party , had promised informally that is she won the general election , which was expected soon in Britain , she would welcome Britain 's old ally and friend . |
| 53 | The few feminists who did consider the problem of women 's domestic labour came up with a collectivist solution similar to that of Beveridge . |
| 54 | But as attitudes changed labour came to be seen as the fight of the soldier of God through a hostile world , a fight in which the end justified the means . |
| 55 | With just 15% of the vote Labour came a bad third at the last election , but a recent opinion poll , commissioned by the Liberal Democrats , revealed a surge in support for Mr Kent at the expense of Sir William — narrowing the gap between the two parties from 22% to 7% . |
| 56 | Both the Whitby Keelboat Society and the Whitby Coblemen 's Association came forward with their support , and suggested the service would be better attended if it was held in July when more of the boats would be in port . |
| 57 | The Parents ' Association came into being ; the Stopfordian Trust was established ; the School 's financial arrangements were conducted on more commercial lines . |
| 58 | After some lengthy discussion by some of our leading lights , plans were given substance and the Revenue Cutter Association came into being . |
| 59 | The final straw for the Prison Officers ' Association came when two officers were kicked , beaten and punched in a fracas earlier this week — one went to hospital , the other 's on sick leave . |
| 60 | Antrim 's new president collected 220 votes in all as the finances of the Association came in for some healthy but heated discussion . |