Example sentences of "he came up and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there were one or two lads in our unit who were sons of er , of er manufacturing , one was er Crawford Biscuits you know , I soldiered with him and I do n't know if you remember er erm , er but anyway , Frank , Frank at Keighley of course when I got , when we got married he , he came up and got us these blankets did n't he ? |
| 2 | He came up and touched my breast through my nightdress . |
| 3 | He came up and apologized to me after lessons . |
| 4 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 5 | The thought of it scared them so much they turned all the lights out and went straight upstairs without even taking a candle in case he came up and saw the light under their door . |
| 6 | He came up and swore he 'd never go down again , it was no life for an animal ] And he stuck to that . |
| 7 | At all events , I dined with him when he came up and happened to mention poor Willy 's plight . |
| 8 | He came up and introduced himself . |