Example sentences of "[noun] came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission for the piece came from Life magazine , but due to a change in publishers the images never ran , ‘ I 've tried to sell it overseas and in Europe and had very good success with it . |
| 2 | Reassurance for the owners of timber-frame homes came from the director-general of the NHBC , who argued : |
| 3 | A confrontation came to a head on Nov. 18 between Benazir Bhutto , the former Prime Minister and leader of the opposition Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) and of the People 's Democratic Alliance ( PDA ) coalition , and the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif . |
| 4 | The former Middlesbrough chief scout came to Feethams in May 1989 , during the reign of far-sighted Brian Little , and with no real basis to work on . |
| 5 | He hesitated and a note of uncertainty came into his voice . |
| 6 | The reply came as a whisper . |
| 7 | The reply came in a few minutes ago listing ten different countries with which he does business . ’ |
| 8 | The reply came from an under-secretary who said that the present funding was considered adequate and the commercial undertaking would be ill-advised . |
| 9 | So he writes it down and everybody writes bits about what 's happened , and thus eventually a few questions were asked and reply came from the Super . |
| 10 | Eventually a reply came from the Islands ' Director of Administration and Legal Services , Rowan McCallum . |
| 11 | Dawson 's reply came from a distance ; he was holding the phone away from his mouth . |
| 12 | No reply came from the tower . |
| 13 | The technician 's reply came after a brief moment of hesitation . |
| 14 | When Trestle came to the Festival for the first time in 1986 , they were just beginning to make their name , and were virtually unknown in Belfast . |
| 15 | ’ The same talent came into play whenever the religious issue surfaced . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He also thinks it is important to build such a museum , as Japan and Britain have a long historical relationship dating back to the seventeenth-century when William Adams came to Japan on a Dutch ship . |
| 18 | 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 ) ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On the other hand Labour came to power in London in 1934 , re-elected in 1937 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Election night 's first intimation of disaster for Labour came from Basildon . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Parents ' Association came into being ; the Stopfordian Trust was established ; the School 's financial arrangements were conducted on more commercial lines . |
| 26 | After some lengthy discussion by some of our leading lights , plans were given substance and the Revenue Cutter Association came into being . |
| 27 | Meantime , there was a lot happening just down the street to capture his attention , as troop after troop of soldiers passed through Frome on their way somewhere else : 300 of the Staffordshire Militia came in April of 1799 , replaced by an equal number of the same later in the month ; then the 300-strong Somerset Supplementary Militia arrived from Wells , complete with their own band , followed by the glorious Fifteenth Light Dragoons — ‘ It is supposed that these are the finest men and horses of any regiment in England ’ ; and the next year no fewer than nine hundred men of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons came at one go . |
| 28 | When I called him out for it , Fest came between us . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When Therese came on the entire evening lifted into top gear . |