Example sentences of "and [conj] i came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wo n't get a fellow , I 'm from nowhere , a decent fellow would n't be able to talk about me and where I came from . |
| 2 | Yeah , erm I er , I 'd given up erm about se seven weeks ago , and I was told that it was an anti-depressant and when I came off the cigarettes it was just terrible ! |
| 3 | And when I came across people who told me I must be , at best , gullible to believe in metaphysics ( and why did n't I rejoin their random , meaningless reality ? ) , then I had invited them into my world . |
| 4 | It happened because I was pretty vulnerable at the time and when I came across this lady who I felt sorry for I imagined that I would be able to support her and make her happy . |
| 5 | I was born in what is now Russia , and when I came to Scotland shortly before the war the small Jewish grocery shops in the Gorbals district of Glasgow were my main link with home . |
| 6 | This , then , was the Jamaican norm , and when I came to Britain , which was still in the throes of the ‘ Swinging Sixties ’ , I found the comparative indiscipline in schools difficult to cope with . |
| 7 | I must have fainted , and when I came to I did n't know who I was or where I 'd come from . " |
| 8 | ‘ And when I came to England , I did not want to kill your Queen . |
| 9 | And when I came to it was with an audible pop in the ears , and a rich consciousness of solitude , and a feeling of love and admiration for this big stolid body I was in , which even now was preoccupied and unconcerned , straining out over the rose bed to adjust a loose swathe of clematis on the wooden wall . |
| 10 | Yes and when I came to , as I was saying we were clearing all half of . |
| 11 | I did not enjoy the journey to Blackpool with these grim tidings ; and when I came to the platform to deliver his message to the audience of 4,000 the hall was hushed with anticipation that something ill was in the wind . |
| 12 | And when I came in there it is he . |
| 13 | One chair at the bottom of the table was empty , and as I came in Dr Barton , with hardly more than a nod in my direction , indicated the chair and said sternly , ‘ You may sit , Doctor Masters , while we ask you a few questions . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ One night after a gig in Whelans , I went down to The Nightrain and as I came in the door I heard this note-perfect rock music , ’ he says . |