Example sentences of "come [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 2 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 3 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 4 | I was going to come charging down from the top of a sand-hill . |
| 5 | I heard recently that Australia has come whooping out of the closet . |
| 6 | It 's a bit embarrassing to come staggering out of the mist , with a purple face , eyes lost in swollen , battered tissue , gasping for breath , to find people wandering around the path in cardigans and slacks . |
| 7 | Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice . |
| 8 | More film roles are expected to come rolling in after the Oscars on 29 March , although Thompson claims she is a no-hoper for glamorous parts . |
| 9 | He did n't expect us to come rolling out of the pubs drunk , and the Yorkshire pudding to get flung at the ceiling with the gravy running down the walls like the tears of a black madonna . |
| 10 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 11 | ‘ They had to come streaming out of the forests and down to the Bright Palace , in answer to the summons of their Lords … ’ |
| 12 | And , every twenty minutes or so , a storm broke : thunder rumbled , lightning flickered , and tropical rain came crashing down from the showerheads fitted in the ceiling . |
| 13 | The ground trembled and over-head many bikes , toy tractors , etc. strung above the ceiling for display purposes , came crashing down upon the team . |
| 14 | She must have sat alone there for a good quarter of an hour , singing to herself , before Henry and Lettice came crashing back through the woods , squealing that they had seen Humphrey and Janet and must take to the skiff at once . |
| 15 | A car came speeding out of the fog , mounted the pavement and smashed into them . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Scraps of paper , issuing from the city , came twirling in through the cab window . |
| 20 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |
| 21 | Otley came tearing back down the stairs white as a sheet and put the mug of cocoa down on the table . |
| 22 | Ranulf and Maltote following suit just as the two crossbow quarrels came whirring out of the darkness , skimming the tops of their heads . |
| 23 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 24 | ‘ And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Hotspur put up a hand to the furred collar of his cloak , and let it slide from his shoulders ; and like a silent and attentive valet the girl came gliding out of the shadows and took it from him . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Caspar came bounding out of the tangle of fallen trees below the cliff . |
| 30 | She came stumbling back into the dining car followed by a commotion of people yelling behind her . |