Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] came [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could see by the dark light that came down from the night sky , a sky that glowed with vivid city lights , that on stands in nearby cages other eagles were listening to his story and staring at him silently . |
| 2 | It was unfair to the defendant and came about by the calculated action of the police to lull Newall into a false sense of security , he added . |
| 3 | Then Handlebar 's cock suddenly jumped into the air , flew the distance that separated it from its rival and came down on the darker bird with its neck arched and talons open . |
| 4 | As was proved when , without replying to her question about the interview , he left the driver 's seat and came round to the passenger 's door . |
| 5 | I remember one day on the 8th there was a little dinghy turned over on the lake and he hooked his tee-shot , hit the boat and came out on the fairway — the shape of things to come ! |
| 6 | As they rounded the hump and came out on the broad , gentler seaward slope they saw a uniformed policeman standing on the cliff edge , and when they joined him he pointed to the rocky shore below . |
| 7 | There was frequently a hair-tidy of the same design on the dressing-table , a little dish with a lid , and a hole through which one could push the hair that came out on the comb . |
| 8 | We now turn to statements on the curriculum that came out of the debate . |
| 9 | I was determined it was at the burn that came down by the distillery at the edge of the town . |
| 10 | There was n't even a mantle , it as a wall bracket that came out of the wall with a little tiny gas jet that fanned out sot of thing and that was your illumination for the the bedroom . |
| 11 | ‘ One spring I left my noviciate and came back to the farm . |
| 12 | Theodora circled the house in the direction of the arrow and came round to the back door . |
| 13 | The grass was lush green and came up to the st'lyan 's hocks . |
| 14 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 15 | In 1972 5,000 researchers in two huge operations took a census and came up with the figure of 1,872 tigers for the whole of India . |
| 16 | The cry that came in from the cold |
| 17 | Dr Tariq , frail and looking as though the gentle zephyr that came in off the Tigris might flatten him , could muster a savage temper when attacked . |
| 18 | By the time she had finished , she had worked off her aggression and came out of the mikva totally relaxed . |
| 19 | I went back to the dining-room window , and as I looked in again , Stapleton left the room and came out of the house . |
| 20 | It started in the 38th minute with a straightforward close range blast after Wright destroyed the Ipswich defence and curled an audacious chip-shot that came back from the underside of the bar . |
| 21 | They were used to store the very large volume of offerings and tribute that came in from the townspeople and from the people living in the surrounding countryside ; administrating the inflow and redistribution of this temple tribute was a major function of the Minoan temple . |
| 22 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 23 | Despite these important responsibilities the relationship that came over to the objectors was one of cosy acquiescence between these bureaucracies and the nuclear industry . |
| 24 | ( WES ) ( ANNE ) Still to come on Central News … the round the world race that came down to the line . |
| 25 | Primitive people had inspired knowledge that came out of the archetypes . |
| 26 | For of all those peppered by the shotgun blast of criticism that came out of the Cleveland inquiry , where in little more than three months 121 children were diagnosed as actual or possible victims of child sexual abuse , only Dr Higgs still does not know her future and faces effective dismissal . |
| 27 | About a week later , I finished work early one day and came back to the house . |
| 28 | We checked the pH by an electronic meter and came up with the same reading . |
| 29 | After a few minutes , Greta Ross put down the phone and came out of the room . |
| 30 | It 's now forgotten that when Hugh Dalton began to publish his memoirs with large chunks of his diary in in the late fifties and early sixties , particularly the the high tide volume that came out about the Labour government of forty five to fifty one which was very venomous . |