Example sentences of "[pron] come [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 2 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 3 | and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in . |
| 4 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 5 | I came down the slope , trying not to smirk . |
| 6 | At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond . |
| 7 | And it was Sunday afternoon when I came out the pit the next time . |
| 8 | So I came out the pit and went into Cripps and bought a lorry . |
| 9 | Harvey and I came out the other side looking like a couple of spooks . |
| 10 | and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee , he was having a great time with that , I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte , no , no , I do n't like it I want the house , meaning the garage , so I 've gone out now and bought her a circus |
| 11 | I 've seen the video tape of Tom and I coming down the 18th . |
| 12 | She thought she heard someone coming down the passage , so she grabbed two paper towels and wrapped them round the offending literature . |
| 13 | There is quite a lot of activity as I come over the hill . |
| 14 | I come over the fields like the wind |
| 15 | That 's why I thought , when I come back the next time and you 're upset I said oh no way do I want to upset a woman like that . |
| 16 | I 'm pretty confused when I come out the other end . |
| 17 | No one follows , so I come out the other end and nip round the small block . |
| 18 | And this day when I come out the bike was gone . |
| 19 | Said fair enough he said and with that I come out the garage . |
| 20 | Yeah , yeah , like I come down the other week and I |
| 21 | Hot , bitter tears rolled down her cheeks , and with them came back the noise of the street . |
| 22 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
| 23 | 'E collapsed as 'e come out the Kings Arms an' they rushed 'im away ter the 'ospital. 'E 's in a bad way so Maisie Dingle told me . |
| 24 | And they said we do n't mean to be over the men , but what we mean is for you to come down the office , no what the office wants as regards orders , and be responsible and pass them out to the men who you 'll think who 'll do the job best and all that , and that 's what we mean . |
| 25 | I think there was somebody called who came down the isle and gave a couple of balloons . |
| 26 | Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path . |
| 27 | She had caught his eye as she came down the aisle . |
| 28 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 29 | But Tallis , as she came down the bank , could see that he was frightened . |
| 30 | However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it . |