Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Three and he just came on and played the piano .
2 West Ham 's Clive Allen came on and followed on from Julian Dick 's telling run through Swindon 's midfield .
3 Even when Allen came on and scored it did n't make any difference .
4 And they were all relaxing and I was playing the piano and people were all gathered round saying , ‘ You hit it with the poker , and I 'll lock the lid ’ — but somebody came on and said ‘ This girl is marvellous , give her a job . ’
5 But he 's just 18 and yet he came on and took control , linking with the front players and proved to be the right substitution ’
6 Last time we went the , the came on and declared that it was your birthday and wished you a very happy birthday and you were standing up there , bouncing up and down .
7 Indian youngster handled England 's other bowlers with ease , he looked in tremendous form but when Botham came on and bowled him a harmless straight one , somehow managed to edge it into his pads and nearly played on .
8 After a song and a prayer , a priest in green vestments came on and preached a long sermon warning us all not to misuse authority .
9 On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar .
10 Lindsey came on and sat in for a couple of numbers and really enjoyed being back on the boards with us lot .
11 We used this door when a ghost came on or went off in a cloud of smoke .
12 And it says , now when the apostles , who were in Jerusalem heard that Somaria had received the word of God they sent them Peter and John , who came down and prayed for them , that they might receive the Holy Spirit .
13 She 's has n't a soul in the world barring her sister who came down and identified the bodies . ’
14 She continued to play until his hands came on her shoulders , and somehow she kept on playing until his hand lifted her loose hair behind the ear and his mouth came down and touched it .
15 After Terry had gone upstairs we heard the dreadful shriek of tape being torn and so , when Mahmoud came down and asked which was Terry 's pee-bottle , we really could n't believe that this was anything more than another move .
16 We came down and realised there was water coming through the back door and the walls .
17 Then he lowered her to the ground and shifted over her , and for a second it was like it had been before and fear touched her , but then his lips came down and brushed her mouth , and she was lost .
18 Subsequently , the floods came down and went over the whole bridge , topping the rails , and it was a tribute to the efficiency of both its design and erection that the bridge withstood this successfully .
19 I recruited Johnny at the Golden Fleece in Thirsk , one of the No 1 Group watering places , and he came down and commanded No 405 ( PFF ) Squadron at Gransden Lodge .
20 One day my son Krono and I were there , too busy eating to watch for trouble , and a big bird came down and took him away . ’
21 This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week .
22 They came down and took our suitcases into the house .
23 When he was not looking I came down and took the car .
24 These young teenagers all millions of them all in this group that came down and took their bras and oh
25 His eyes came up and she saw his jaw tense before the shutters came down and blanked off his thoughts .
26 Mark and I have just been for a walk beyond Dalseattie , which was nice until the mist came down and began to make us rather damp .
27 Bilal came down and said that Tom would be next , which was , of course , meaningless .
28 But she must have heard me say so , because at seven she came down and said she 'd overlooked this marvellous Stockhausen concert on Two — well , I just put on my coat and flung out of the house …
29 Marie had been putting her money in a machine which had a little silver crane which came down and swung round , grabbing at the prizes .
30 But when she brought the children round , they would all wait outside a side door until he came down and joined them .
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