Example sentences of "came [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He were never the same when he came off mainline .
2 His other sixes came off Snell and the expensive debutant ‘ Corrie ’ van Zyl ( 2 ) .
3 Could you call that a deliberate back pass it almost came off Greyson 's er foot by mistake .
4 Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp .
5 The noise levels were deafening and you came off work feeling your head would explode .
6 Sometimes we came off night duty too tired to sleep at all , jaded and depressed , because there seemed to be no end to the dreary round of working , eating and trying to sleep .
7 And that came off Simon Greyson .
8 Manchester City4 , Leeds0 THE WHEELS came off Leeds United 's hitherto solid championship challenge at Maine Road in a match which , paradoxically , they could easily have collected the point they needed to return to the top of the table .
9 ‘ He came off duty at six .
10 You came off light .
11 When he came off stage the violets had been kicked into the wings , stamped on by Tiger Lily 's Redskins .
12 But two evenings later , as I stood in the wings about to go on , she came off stage and , separating from the others , clutching my arm , she whispered , ‘ Lily , Lily , dearest — the worst , it is all the worst — ’ Her eyes , against the wet white , the rouge , were large , frightened .
13 I was so glad that I was up here when she came off stage .
14 ‘ I came off stage last night and simply collapsed in a heap and slept straight through .
15 to his brain , then they comes the next day , oh no that was it , they , then they , we left it , we left it , we left it , he kept saying we might have to make a decision , erm your dad 's leg deteriorated he 's got no circulation in his legs at all , we 've found a pulse in his left leg but we ca n't find one in his right , he said I think you 're gon na have to make the decision of amputation oh god , anyway comes Monday came off ventilator and of course he could n't talk
16 As it came through Rose he encouraged it as much as he would have discouraged visits to any other neighbouring house .
17 Increase in production in almost all cases came through livestock and livestock products and was most likely because of a reduction in losses .
18 His main income came through music .
19 ‘ But he came through London when … when he needed to . ’
20 The second glimpse came through Squirrel Nutkin though I loved all the Beatrix Potter books .
21 In the West , the main impact of the war , apart from circles with relations serving in the forces , came through demonstrations against it .
22 The third glimpse came through poetry .
23 Robson , who came through Manchester United 's Littlewoods Cup tie with Portsmouth at Old Trafford on Tuesday without problems , will join up with the England party tonight at their team hotel .
24 and myself or as he was better known , came through B Seventeen Transition School at in Florida together and where the crews were formed so that the names in the Army of course are worked alphabetically , so everybody on my crew is trained with everybody on crew and their last name is just ahead erm in the alphabetic in the class that they were in , so that my navigator came from the same school , the same navigation class as .
25 Stephen drove south by the main road and as he came through Goughdale it occurred to him that the yellow Volkswagen might still be there .
26 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 .
27 Suppose that a particular one came through slit l .
28 In Wester Ross the contacts came through Dan Findlay of the North of Scotland College of Agriculture , whose co-operation is appreciated .
29 Well my Lord , all we know is that erm when the report was served on the defendant it then came through court they were going to have to call Mr and then last week it was suggested er that er not only did they not agree but that they were going to try to prevent it being admitted in evidence .
30 The last time I came through , Irene and I came through Colchester and we were going to Clacton .
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