Example sentences of "came [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the death coach came galloping out of the wild black sky to take Darby O'Gill to hell , it fairly put the fear of God in me ; more so than any clergyman before or since , however vivid their threats of eternal damnation . |
| 2 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 3 | As the sun rose higher , shortening the shadows and drawing the dew from the grass , most of the rabbits came wandering back to the sun-flecked shade among the cow-parsley along the edge of the ditch . |
| 4 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 5 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 6 | The highwayman came riding up to the old inn door . |
| 7 | In the second half , Joey Beauchamp came flying in like the daring young man on the trapeze . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | As Mary came running out of the front door it moved off up the drift towards the wood . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A woman came stooping out of the felt-covered fowl-house , half-way down the garden ( 19 ) . |
| 12 | On this bright evening , they were looped back by twisted and tasselled cords ; light came streaming in through the sashed plate-glass windows . |