Example sentences of "[pron] came [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I came to get a ticket for the literature festival but it was pouring down so I came to get out of the rain . |
| 2 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman . |
| 5 | She came stumbling back into the dining car followed by a commotion of people yelling behind her . |
| 6 | She came running up to the van and climbed in beside him . |
| 7 | I thought she was talking about you , I mean she never mentioned no names when she came rushing up to the top just the same , do n't know what 's the matter with Wynne today , the edge there Lynda . |
| 8 | A little boy wearing a balaclava cap too large for him came trotting out of the house . |
| 9 | She glanced back just as she was about to turn a corner , and saw Joe as he came hurtling out of the side-exit . |
| 10 | ‘ After a minute he came staggering out of the smoke . ’ |
| 11 | However , I made my position very clear to the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus sports hack , Mark Crowe , when he came sniffing round at the funeral . |
| 12 | Hers said it was by mistake but I know it was n't and he came wandering out of the wood , all black and shaggy like the Beast in the fairy tale in the most peculiar clothes , very ancient , and dreadful wild hair like pictures of the Prophets . ’ |
| 13 | Then he came roaring back down the road in a cold fury . |
| 14 | He was climbing on the barrier so he came to go back into the room to tell you what he was doing when Dale fell . ’ |
| 15 | He came running back from the grave the day we reached here , saying someone had been tampering , and we could scarcely believe it . |
| 16 | At seven-thirty she had started the engine of the Subaru when he came running out of the house . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He came rushing on to the platform just as a train bound for Debden came in . |
| 19 | It came screeching out of the darkness , and not even the thunder could drown the scream of its menace . |