Example sentences of "they came [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There might be a third person wiser than either who is living happily and fruitfully in Bali , and remembers that both of them came with unrealistic expectations . |
| 2 | This stereo assault on them came from two men in late middle age , bizarrely costumed in matching Victorian evening dress . |
| 3 | You have to remember that some of them came from remote parts of Scotland , and the stores catered for them . |
| 4 | A batch of them came in this morning . ’ |
| 5 | Confirmation of this view is provided by the enormous and extremely rapid gains in productivity which were achieved in the motor vehicle and iron and steel industries when they came under strong pressure through government rationalisation schemes in the 1970s [ Bhaskar , 1979 ] . |
| 6 | They trailed 6–0 to two penalties by Gary Ellis as they came under early pressure from Horden , who won a lot of good ball but kept it among the forwards . |
| 7 | We discovered the Syrians sheltering under the walls of Avenue Charles Helou as they came under intermittent shellfire , apparently from Palestinian positions a mile away . |
| 8 | Timely interventions by senior Army officers had already established the ‘ official view ’ that the paratroops had fired only at clearly identifiable targets , and only when they came under heavy fire from gunmen , and nail and petrol bombers ( Curtis , 1984:41–2 ) . |
| 9 | As they reached the enemy coastline they came under heavy fire from the Turkish batteries . |
| 10 | They came for six months after seven day wonder , something had happened to us . |
| 11 | , and they came for eighteen months , two years , at the end of which the quality of the work had deteriorated , price was rocketing up |
| 12 | They came with fiddly switches and jumpers which had to be set by hand , arcane rituals of interrupt conflict avoidance , instructions written in terse technobabble . |
| 13 | These Sephardic Jews did not take kindly to newcomers , especially to European or Ashkenazi Jews , unless they came with large sums of money . |
| 14 | Beside him Carol watched the modern-day gladiators as they came at each other . |
| 15 | They came at full speed , the leading man aiming to Sharpe 's left , the other pulling to his right . |
| 16 | In the end Sun chief executive officer Scott McNealy had his way and they came as twin cannon shots . |
| 17 | In the end Sun chief executive Scott McNealy had his way and they came as twin cannon shots . |
| 18 | They came to that conclusion on the grounds that it appeared to them to be a tenable meaning of the words and in accordance with what they thought to be the policy of the Act of 1914 as to jurisdiction . |
| 19 | Fortunately , both those clauses enjoy the protection of unanimous voting or could be changed when they came to practical application into law . |
| 20 | ‘ Stephen , ’ Anna asked quietly , ‘ did you go to see Sarah and Hassan in Australia , the night before they came to this country ? ’ |
| 21 | The thousands of miles of new hedgerows in the Midland countryside , when they came to full growth after a generation , added enormously to the bird population , especially with the extermination of the larger hawks and kites as pests , a process that is abundantly recorded in the church-wardens ' accounts or the field-reeves ' books of Midland villages . |
| 22 | They continued to walk along the corridors of the dungeons , until they came to another stairway . |
| 23 | He brought it up , let it look about as they came to another junction . |
| 24 | Those poor men had a lot of problems driving in the poles to carry the lines and were obliged to use explosives on the last stretch over my land because they came across solid rock . |
| 25 | In the nineteen twenties water workers were laying a pipe when they came across this skeleton . |
| 26 | Terry Lovell 's Pictures of Reality was a seminal text in this respect , since it presented a scrupulous critique of the semiotic and psychoanalytical preoccupations of film theory even before they came into full swing in feminism . |
| 27 | They came into full view ; his daughter in the arms of what appeared a working man . |
| 28 | As they came alongside each other , Natasha said : ‘ I once asked Maurice why he thought so highly of you , Charlie . |
| 29 | They came upon several hollows filled with water , silent dark meres , some little more than puddles or ponds , others several acres in extent . |
| 30 | Simmo , who has become a favourite of pupils of Hurworth Primary School , near Darlington , described the slow build up to the conflict and the dangers they encountered as they came within four miles of the Kuwaiti coast . |