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

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1	For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump .
2	But the pastor only came for one service every two weeks even then , in the war . ’
3	It seemed that the caretaker only came on fine days , so they were alone in the house .
4	They complained that they could not get loans from LEDU and if they did , the money only came after long delays .
5	Nevertheless , our weekly bill for provisions alone came to 25 shillings , or half of our total income .
6	Well , I was already in and he came in and just erm I was here and he just suddenly came round that way and he sat down next to Louise and and he said how are you ?
7	As a teacher in the Philosophy of Science , Song constantly came across Jewish names like Einstein and Freud .
8	After all , her young people all came from good families .
9	Let loose on the family estancia during the holidays , he and Pedro had played cops and robbers on horses , and later polo with his cousins , who all came from large houses nearby .
10	I naturally came to this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance ; it was no easy matter for me , the responsible commander , to abandon my dreams of hope and victory !
11	Whereas they eventually came to some agreement over the various ‘ courses ’ , they argued vehemently over Elisabeth 's insistence that the recital should both begin and close with Strauss 's Morgen .
12	Bacon , however , soon came into financial difficulties and he tried to foil a £90 debt owed to a local stonemason by forging a receipt .
13	Requests for samples of his mould soon came from several laboratories , including the pathology laboratory at Oxford .
14	‘ We just came for five years … ’ : writings about young life in Jamaica and adult life in England .
15	Her liaison with Wyatt continued apace until late in 1990 when the Duchess finally came under official pressure to cool it .
16	For us in Italy , war finally came on 10 june 1940 , when Mussolini declared war on France , which was already on its knees , and on Britain , whose soldiers had been driven out of Europe .
17	Liberation finally came on 10 May 1945 .
18	A merciful amnesia usually came with these comas and who could deny it was a blessing ?
19	The periodic convulsions that resulted under ‘ système D ’ usually came of good intentions .
20	The successful working-class children — that is , those who stayed the full seven-year course to Higher School Certificate or A levels — usually came from small families and often lived near to a primary school serving a predominantly middle-class area .
21	Many more came from other parts of Orkney — Orcadians and incomers together creating an atmosphere of community and caring support .
22	Villagers said that none ever came at this time of year .
23	We 'll both get out of your lives and then you can get on with that idyllic existence you shared before we ever came to this island .
24	To Nigel 's disappointment , nothing ever came of these pick-ups .
25	If in the age of Paul VI the major challenges to Roman policy still came from Western Europe , by the age of John Paul II they were coming from other continents .
26	But Fergie , Diana and Mark Phillips hardly came from stable backgrounds themselves .
27	What remained of the armed independence movement was based in Manchuria , where it later came under communist domination and was headed by Kim Il-sung .
28	In Washington , Watson and his wife took lunch with President and Mrs Cleveland who later came to that night 's lecture .
29	During this time he introduced cast-iron brake blocks of the type which later came into general use .
30	Over the years he invented many improvements for Watt 's steam engines , including a D-shaped sliding valve which later came into common use for many types of steam engine .