Example sentences of "came [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beside TV , other media that came or went look mouselike . |
| 2 | Yeah well , there was n't many shops there really dear , there were just the er fishmongers and greengrocers and the butchers and the , we used to have to go there to get , to queue up , you had to queue because there was no , not many shops to be there you see to serve you , it 's altered a lot now , there 's a lot more shops now and the doctors I used to have to queue right out the gate , the doctors a big long queue , there was only Dr surgery and then we had another doctor came that started down at erm the bottom of erm Harlow near where , where do they call that ? |
| 3 | let him out Louise came and interrupted us . |
| 4 | ‘ Jane , if all those fine guests of mine came and spat at me , what would you do ? ’ he asked . |
| 5 | I did n't quite belong in the Jewish dorf-just as well , because horsemen came through more than once and left blood and burnt timbers behind them — and did n't quite belong in the hamlet where my father 's people lived — maybe just as well also , because the crucifixes on their walls did n't save them when the cholera came and brought its own kind of pogrom . |
| 6 | This does not coincide with the realistic view of mankind having to overcome the opposition of nature to do as he wishes and came and cultivate what originally posed a threat , and most often still does . |
| 7 | Some seemed quite certain of a mystery train — one they heard that came and vanished but was never recognised . |
| 8 | ‘ But I decided to take my chance when it came and make it hard for Paul to get back . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Came and programmed the software ? ’ |
| 10 | A fifteen-year-old in grey flannel wandering around London in school holidays with an adolescent 's apocalyptic vision , praying that he would lose his virginity before the bombs came and blasted him to oblivion . |
| 11 | Along with him I planted other wild trees , mostly native willows and the nurserymen came and added their more refined products . |
| 12 | When they first came , they came and padlocked the building , and some of the news reporters that were there , said ‘ What are you laughing about ? ’ |
| 13 | The storm came and drove them into their flimsy shelter . |
| 14 | Then I drove into his space well then somebody else came and drove in behind me and the car in front then was sort of , oh yeah , then somebody else came and reversed in in front of him , so the car in front it was across the drive was boxed in by this time , I did n't box him in I just |
| 15 | When he left school , he forgot entirely about the whole business , forgot about it for a couple of decades , forgot until this thin , tired fellow , looking so very much like his old school chaplain , came and hovered in the drive , the epitome , it seemed to Patrick , of the doubting kind of modern Anglican clergyman . |
| 16 | She came and knocked on the door and then we went back and I , I said what you stopped for ? |
| 17 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 18 | Came and told me — no cheating . |
| 19 | I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America . |
| 20 | Mazzin came and told us to lie along the inside wall together . |
| 21 | Two sides may each want to beat the other , they may even hate each other as sides , but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about , then they 'd feel together . |
| 22 | Bénezet overheard Prior Robert and Brother Jerome talking about it , and he came and told me . |
| 23 | Davide is against him , he came and told me afterwards to be careful . |
| 24 | No that 's right , as I say but erm anyway then after that when I left at say sixteen , you see , er er er a friend of ours who was a railway clerk at Needham Station came and told us that they were taking on girls on the Railway Company and would I like to do it and so of course I had to pass exams and er actually , can I read some notes that |
| 25 | A m A man named Harold from , and while I was in that hospital with that bit of a gas shell , he er he g fellow came and told me there , to Boulogne that he was dead , killed . |
| 26 | Seb was out harrowing one of his own fields when the young stable-hand came and told him of Christian 's arrival . |
| 27 | It was after this debacle that a number of Conservatives came and told me that I ought to consider coming forward as a leader of the Party and a potential Prime Minister . |
| 28 | Diggs came and told us the day he broke out . ’ |
| 29 | I said he came and told me you know |
| 30 | She was prepared for the move when it came and followed Claudia Hamilton and the other ladies upstairs . |