Example sentences of "came [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | And Manyara came rushing out of the temple . |
| 32 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
| 33 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 34 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 35 | The glass exploded outwards and rain suddenly came pouring in through the hole . |
| 36 | For the first time , Isobel felt a little afraid of him , as all the suppressed fury of a rejected child came pouring out in the music . |
| 37 | The highwayman came riding up to the old inn door . |
| 38 | In quick succession , Sandy Lyle , Faldo twice and then , last year , Ian Woosnam came riding in on the crest of a British tidal wave . |
| 39 | In the second half , Joey Beauchamp came flying in like the daring young man on the trapeze . |
| 40 | The Argie came flying out of the tank , running from the British heroine . |
| 41 | That fish came zooming up to the top then , to see what you were doing . |
| 42 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |
| 43 | The sound of singing came drifting up from the quays below . |
| 44 | Connon 's voice came drifting in from the hall . |
| 45 | The stories of poverty and struggle got wilder and ever wilder in the publicity office until his family came crawling out of the Middle Ages on all fours ! |
| 46 | ‘ That 's him , then , all gone , ’ Gloria said , before a nurse came scurrying out through the doors , took her by the arm and led her back into the ward . |
| 47 | It came screeching out of the darkness , and not even the thunder could drown the scream of its menace . |
| 48 | Mrs Joyce , the cook , came panting up from the kitchen with the two maid-servants behind her , her hands and wrists covered in flour , while Uncle Walter and his sister peeped wide-eyed from behind the curtains . |
| 49 | ‘ We 're in luck , ’ said Jonna , as Ned came panting in at the doorway with an armful of heavily-foliaged twigs . |
| 50 | She came running up to the van and climbed in beside him . |
| 51 | Some of the children came running over from the village . |
| 52 | Phil came running in to the street saying : ‘ He shot my granddad ’ . |
| 53 | He came running in from the dispensary , pulling up his trousers , still held up by his MCC tie , the end of his stethoscope bouncing off his fat tummy . |
| 54 | Just then Angela , who had seen her crossing the field , came running out of the farmhouse . |
| 55 | The day when the search guards were given orders to act roughly , and the little R.A.S.C. captain who came running out of the block with his mouth still bleeding from a blow with a rifle butt . |
| 56 | As Mary came running out of the front door it moved off up the drift towards the wood . |
| 57 | At seven-thirty she had started the engine of the Subaru when he came running out of the house . |
| 58 | Eight of the men came running out of the trees and heaved at the sides of the lorry . |
| 59 | As the 22 men in the three boats had just taken their respective stations , a young girl came running down from the village to the shore in breathless haste . |
| 60 | At this moment , as if to give substance to the Collector 's fears , the Magistrate and two planters came running back along the outside of the Residency wall from the direction of the hospital . |