Example sentences of "come [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A flame from the last day will come lashing out of the telephone |
| 2 | Every time we struck a chord people would come tearing up from the bar to tell us to turn that fucking racket down . |
| 3 | And every night , before Swan arrived , he saw to it that the curtains were drawn back and the window was open wide so that the great white bird could come gliding right into the room and land on the floor beside his bed . |
| 4 | If you approach a pond where these birds are nesting , they will all come swimming up to the bank nearest to you . |
| 5 | They were waiting for the lift when they saw a man come hurrying in through the swing doors . |
| 6 | Mrs Stocks would come rushing in from the wash-house in a lather of soapsuds and thrills at having found the Cap'n 's blackamoor wandering in the yard . |
| 7 | Somebody would come rushing down to the station : ‘ Mary Worty 's out . ’ |
| 8 | Next to the Met Office was the teleprinter room where yards of paper would come spewing out from the machine at regular intervals , bearing coded weather reports from all the other Met Stations in the United Kingdom and a few weather ships in the Atlantic , and these had to be painstakingly plotted on blank charts of the British Isles . |
| 9 | At night , carriages containing prostitutes and their clients would come hurtling out of the park towards the entrance , and they could come from two directions . |
| 10 | At any second , that monstrous thing could come bursting through into the corridor from behind . |