Example sentences of "and came [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the first ‘ maid ’ they ever had was a girl of 16 called Mollie and she had been deserted by her husband and came to live in the house with three tots . |
| 2 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
| 3 | It was lovely to watch , the effortless , rhythmic flowing of the horse 's limbs and then Punch turned his mount and came thudding towards the road . |
| 4 | At the last moment , it veered away and came to halt by a vent . |
| 5 | ‘ He jumped out and came galloping down the street , waving a sort of a club . |
| 6 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |
| 7 | She turned slowly to look at him , as he deposited a bag of fragrant croissants and the Financial Times carelessly on the hall table and came to lean in the doorway of the guest room . |
| 8 | And yet it may still be true that he came within minutes of Jerome 's flight , found the man only stunned , stooped close and knew him , for then knowing was possible , and killed him , and only then took thought how to escape suspicion , and came running into the town , to me . ’ |
| 9 | A boy sitting on a wall fell off backwards and came running round the end of the wall a moment later saying , ‘ What have I missed ? |
| 10 | Riders broke away from the group and came to stand near the fence , waiting almost motionless in the still morning , while the horses shook their heads , grass foam dripping from bits , stamping impatiently . |
| 11 | It turned in at the gate and came chuntering up the track to pull up beside them . |
| 12 | They watched in silence until he came closer , then , as he swooped between the grey walls of the drawbridge and came clattering into the courtyard over cobblestones that were now covered only by a thin film of slush , Marc deliberately removed his arm from around her waist . |
| 13 | Buddhists of the Northern school of China and Japan evolved their own theory of grace and came to believe in the Buddha as a Saviour , though in the earliest Scriptures he himself claimed to be nothing more than a teacher , a shower of the way . |
| 14 | On seeing the car , she rose immediately and came tripping down the drive to unlock the tall iron gates . |
| 15 | ‘ Punishment enough , I think , ’ he said softly , as his hands traced a deliberately sensuous path over the clinging wetness of her shirt and came to rest for the briefest of moments on the raised outline of her breasts . |
| 16 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 17 | Fran closed her eyes , willing the frantic pounding of her pulse to slow , but when his fingers completed their slow journey and came to rest at the base of her neck she knew that he could feel every frantic beat . |
| 18 | His eyes moved along the branch and came to rest on a brilliant blue bird sitting there . |
| 19 | Then an arm lifted , as though of its own accord , and came to rest on the crown of his head . |
| 20 | These separated and came to rest on the head of each of them . |
| 21 | The transporter squeezed between the two halves of the parted face , and came to rest in a large , high-ceilinged , circular room , like the inside of a drum . |
| 22 | Balberith smashed through the rear doors of the catering truck , careened along the spotlessly clean linoleum floor and came to rest in the fruit and salad bar . |
| 23 | Laura 's stare left the corpse , travelled through several unfocused planes and came to rest upon the ceiling . |
| 24 | Then he kicked and came to rest against the far wall . |
| 25 | Under his feet a little floating clump of Um Suf , Mother of Wool , papyrus reed , torn loose from its moorings hundreds of miles to the south , nestled along the bank and came to rest against the shoal . |