Example sentences of "[coord] came [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Theodora circled the house in the direction of the arrow and came round to the back door . |
2 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
3 | We checked the pH by an electronic meter and came up with the same reading . |
4 | He repeated his question , and came up against the same smiling ignorance . |
5 | Rachaela did as she was told , and came out to the examining table , very white with something on it like a large paper towel . |
6 | As they rounded the hump and came out on the broad , gentler seaward slope they saw a uniformed policeman standing on the cliff edge , and when they joined him he pointed to the rocky shore below . |
7 | But they reached the house , or rather the road below , and when Adamus had paid the driver-no account was mentioned — they walked up the crumbling slope in the shadowed midday light , and came out among the wet green oaks , and the house appeared . |
8 | It was unfair to the defendant and came about by the calculated action of the police to lull Newall into a false sense of security , he added . |
9 | He took in Marcus 's absence , went upstairs and came down with the pale boy behind him . |
10 | Then Handlebar 's cock suddenly jumped into the air , flew the distance that separated it from its rival and came down on the darker bird with its neck arched and talons open . |
11 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
12 | ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round . |
13 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
14 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
15 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |