Example sentences of "came [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith was in fine bludgeoning form , but Gower showed restraint , collecting two twos and 25 singles in his 29 , which came off 52 deliveries . |
| 2 | Hitch , then of Horden and Peterlee , now professional , unluckily lost a majority points decision after a ludicrous bout in which Noi 's headguard came off six times in one round . |
| 3 | Darren Bicknell ( 33 ) and Alistair Brown smashed 56 off just over five overs — Bicknell hooking Mark Ilott for six in the paceman 's opening over while Brown 's 36 came off 21 balls and included two sixes and two fours . |
| 4 | because I 'll tell you what , I came off cold turkey , and I had the worst three days of my whole life . |
| 5 | Frankl himself came through four concentration camps with an unimpaired , nay an enhanced , mentality . |
| 6 | I was absolutely delighted , colleagues , when the , er , recommendation came through that Eric should be awarded the gold badge because I could personally testify that there can be no better winner or holder of the G M gold badge . |
| 7 | But on Friday night news came through that VAT HQ had agreed to study the ER scheme ‘ to see if it can be classified as a training activity , which would be VAT exempt , rather than as a business activity , ’ Maxen reported . |
| 8 | Yet the spirit of excitement which came through each TV showing of the battles between happi-coated teams was an inspiration that called out for adoption . |
| 9 | No that girl came through this morning miserable as sin she was . |
| 10 | and that actually came through this morning . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure I came through this junction . |
| 12 | IBM 's desktop RS/6000s clocked up $470m of the $1,000m , other workstations $360m , with deskside machines taking $160m and rack-mounts $1m. 36% of sales were direct , 34% came through value-added resellers and 30% from other IBM agents : the company projects 1993 figures at 40% , 30% and 30% through these channels respectively . |
| 13 | The indivisible electron came through both slits ! |
| 14 | The words came through clenched teeth , and , lifting her hand , Dawn hit Robert hard on his cheek . |
| 15 | BLACKPOOL : A bit of a cheer went up when the news came through last week in Brighton of the Government 's humiliation at the hands of the Bundesbank . |
| 16 | Daily use for the others came between one month and over 18 months later . |
| 17 | For eight of the interviewees , daily use came between one week and one month later . |
| 18 | Came between two crags , blackish sand . |
| 19 | The pepper pot idea first came about one lunchtime while I was having lunch with Chris Barry and Mervyn Pinfield . |
| 20 | ‘ Before we came aboard this ship I was thinking of the possibilities . ’ |
| 21 | Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally . |
| 22 | The turning point , the moment when the era rightly began , came during those years between America 's Sixties triumph — Neil Armstrong 's first footsteps on the Sea of Tranquillity in 1969 — and that most doleful moment of the Seventies , when the last US Marines were evacuated from the roof of the embassy in Saigon in 1975 . |
| 23 | ‘ We just came for five years … ’ : writings about young life in Jamaica and adult life in England . |
| 24 | Of course his wife did visit me , but always with her daughters and other ladies who came for regular afternoon visits . |
| 25 | Many of them pass it on to their wives ; 1% of the women who came for pre-natal tests at the hospital were HIV-positive . |
| 26 | When the time came for constructive criticism of my sermon , my friend Hartmut Kopsch remained resolutely silent . |
| 27 | A few days later the call came for general mobilisation . |
| 28 | ‘ I came for that weekend . |
| 29 | But the pastor only came for one service every two weeks even then , in the war . ’ |
| 30 | They came for six months after seven day wonder , something had happened to us . |