Example sentences of "came [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first , wearing a traditional Burmese longyi , or sarong , and carrying an umbrella and a briefcase , was thoroughly searched by Thai security forces when he came down the plane steps . |
| 2 | He walked straight back round the top of the little dale until they came down the slope to the road , well out of sight of the cottage . |
| 3 | Joe stood up and came down the table towards Harriet Shakespeare . |
| 4 | She came to the rehearsal and came down the bridge over the orchestra where I was directing , and she said to the manager , ‘ If this veil remains , I do not sing . ’ |
| 5 | Let's go ! ’ and Dave came down the tree in a way that made my eyes water . |
| 6 | The men came down the stern ladder . |
| 7 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 8 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
| 9 | I came down the slope , trying not to smirk . |
| 10 | Mrs Singh came down the hall and opened the door , smiling . |
| 11 | A horse came down the ramp in one bound , as if on wings , hit the concrete in a shower of sparks . |
| 12 | A man stood between these with the barrow behind him , and came down the almost precipitous slopes with the momentum of a quarter of a ton of stone lifting him off his feet for yards at a time , the exertions of keeping the load under control leaving him breathless and throbbing . |
| 13 | As the dusk came down the bats came out and the song of birds ceased one by one until only a lone blackbird spoke occasionally from the shadows . |
| 14 | At first , Charles found only 150 clansmen , all of them Macdonalds , waiting to greet him but then the distant skirl of bagpipes was heard and the Camerons , 700 or 800 strong , came down the hillside in orderly columns , escorting the prisoners captured at High Bridge . |
| 15 | A groan of real sympathy came down the line . |
| 16 | The Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 came down the day after the fourth anniversary of the Lockerbie bomb — allegedly planted by two Libyans — which killed 270 . |
| 17 | Even the fishing fleet came down the harbour as expected from intelligence reports , and might have choked the narrow 100 yards wide entrance if a burst of tracer from a destroyer had not turned them aside as they grasped the situation . |
| 18 | With his two daughters , one holding each hand , he came down the long staircase from the top-floor flat . |
| 19 | It was crowded , and as the rain began to fall more rabbits came down the runs . |
| 20 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
| 21 | The elderly voice , half a challenge and half a tease , came down the telephone to Molly as she was in the middle of giving Jacqueline her supper . |
| 22 | She had caught his eye as she came down the aisle . |
| 23 | Dawson came down the scale and finished with a bass boom , index finger down heavily , thumb extended . |
| 24 | Late in the morning Valeria suggested we should all go down and have breakfast , and as we came down the staircase we saw to our horror that her mother was waiting for us at the bottom . |
| 25 | The stewardess came down the aisle , a big-breasted young woman exuding a strong odour of perspiration . |
| 26 | When he came down the alley toward the club 's stage door he could see that there were three rough-looking teenagers who 'd clambered up the side of one of the big waste bins and were lifting stuff around inside . |
| 27 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 28 | At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond . |
| 29 | But when stuff came down the dock to people off , on to a boat , would that be stored in a warehouse first and then go on to the boat or would it be |
| 30 | ‘ There 's no mistake , Miss Stanley , ’ the girl 's voice came down the line . |