Example sentences of "he came [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's coming this way , ’ said Lee who was still looking at Jack as he came up to the gate , his eyes fixed on the gun . |
| 2 | ‘ Apparently his boat came in sooner than expected and docked at Shields , and he came up to the house hoping to see my sister , and he did . |
| 3 | He came up to the house that evening , armed with the music box and the monkey . |
| 4 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 5 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 6 | He came up to the Hilder at the point where the aqueduct pillars crossed it . |
| 7 | ‘ So he came up to the farm , and they had a job for my horse , which he was very interested in . |
| 8 | What a strange wedding-gift he had given her too , when he came up to the manor the other afternoon , making her feel like a tenant in her own home ; which , of course , had once been his . |
| 9 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 10 | That fact that it was over was all there in his formal goodbye when he came round to the passenger 's side and stood on the pavement with her , and , ‘ Na shledanou , Fabia , ’ he wished her . |
| 11 | He came closer to the desk , sitting easily on one corner of it so that their eyes were almost on a level . |
| 12 | When he came upstairs to the bedroom he found Lily standing by the bed , and Eileen clutching her hand and moaning . |
| 13 | We did have an argument that afternoon ; he came on to the set clearly hungover — he had been drinking heavily the day before , disrupting things , disturbing the atmosphere . |
| 14 | He came over to the bed , holding up his hand to shade his eyes from the bedside light , and peering almost comically close , so that Tessa could smell the whisky on his breath . |
| 15 | Apparently finding what he wanted , he came over to the sofa on the other side of the low coffee-table that was all that stood between them , threw himself down among the cushions and started to read . |
| 16 | He came over to the bed and stood , tall and powerfully attractive , looking down at her . |
| 17 | No he came over to the study , he came over to the study and he said er he comes in and he goes |
| 18 | No he came over to the study , he came over to the study and he said er he comes in and he goes |
| 19 | He came straight to the point in a rather superior manner , saying that he was a European federalist and that , in his opinion , it did n't matter a tuppeny damn whether industrial investments took place in Germany , France or the UK . |
| 20 | Then he came straight to the cause of the conference . |
| 21 | He came rapidly to the conclusion that blood-letting , enemas and emetics weakened the already ill patients and could in no way help towards a cure , and he campaigned against such practices for most of his life . |
| 22 | So he came down to the vestibule , where the three doors were , and under the sills of the two great doors light shone , warm and enticing , and the third was behind a musty leather curtain . |
| 23 | He came down to the half-landing and stood behind her , peering over her shoulder at Carlos 's face on the little phone . |
| 24 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 25 | But Gregory , he came down to the er to the base , and then I went out , you see and er er he he was back at the base whil whil whilst this was going on . |
| 26 | When he came back to the house he refused to take a chair or a drink . |
| 27 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 28 | He came back to the table and sat down . |
| 29 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 30 | Now , he came back to the theme with a script loosely based on Poe poem , The Raven , but the connection was so loose that no one could discover what it was . |