Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the 22 men in the three boats had just taken their respective stations , a young girl came running down from the village to the shore in breathless haste . |
| 2 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The present owner of Miss Havisham 's house told of a fisherman she had met in Broadstairs one day who remembered ‘ Old Charley a-coming flying down from the cliff with a hop , skip and jump , with his hair all flying about ’ . |
| 5 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |
| 6 | The sound of singing came drifting up from the quays below . |
| 7 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 8 | Connon 's voice came drifting in from the hall . |
| 9 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 10 | The heavy sound of the door-knocker came beating up from the bottom of the house . |