Example sentences of "i came " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 2 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When I came to train properly I was already aware of the professional background . |
| 5 | I came to the school with considerable amateur experience of Shakespeare with the Oxford University Dramatic Society and had even played in a real theatre in Oxford . |
| 6 | Only to say I came back and saw glass as another might see it . |
| 7 | After all , I came along when he must have thought you were safe to be a bachelor for ever and ever , and now he 'll never be a lord and everything . ’ |
| 8 | Was going to tell her this morning , but when I came downstairs and saw her packing up that cake — when I remembered he was going to be there , that I 'd have to see his smug damned face , hear that ghastly loud laugh of his … |
| 9 | ‘ When Conroy and I came in you were not at your post . ’ |
| 10 | In a miscellaneous pile of documents , I came across the following essay . |
| 11 | It was only after extensive reading through the writings of many authors that I came across the work which undoubtedly gave the author this particular inspiration . |
| 12 | He was very pragmatic about why he had been drawn to cinema ‘ I came into films not because I wanted to make films . |
| 13 | He was , and is , a distinctly affable chap , whereas I came across as cold , prickly and generally difficult . |
| 14 | ‘ I was unemployed for nearly two years before I came here , I do know what it 's like . |
| 15 | About three weeks after I started looking , I came upon an advertisement for a receptionist to work at a local authority office building , not too far from my new home . |
| 16 | I took a short break , and when I came back , I went round the local job centres to see what was going . |
| 17 | A day or so later , I came down with a very nasty bout of influenza . |
| 18 | I came here because I wanted to get away , only … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I was kicked out by my landlord and put in this hostel which was just awful and I had to get away so I came here — I do n't know why , really , I … ’ |
| 20 | He looked up when I came in . |
| 21 | To Aldgate then I came , burning , burning after a Badedas bath , when things happen ! |
| 22 | In a rush , Lucy said : ‘ I came here tonight hoping you 'd got over me . ’ |
| 23 | I came here to try and be clear with you . |
| 24 | ‘ The Faskally boatman brought me across the foot of the loch and I came straight over the hill to the Brig of Grandtully . ’ |
| 25 | You should see them — they were ringing the Castle round when I came away , and making themselves fires for the night on Cnoc na Lude across the Tilt . |
| 26 | And now I am sorry I came back . |
| 27 | ‘ It was dry work , ’ Menzies summed up , ‘ so I came back then for some refreshment . |
| 28 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll never believe who I came across during the talks on Zork . ’ |
| 30 | The third summer I came across greenflies which I easily killed with malathion . |