Example sentences of "and came [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn . |
2 | As was proved when , without replying to her question about the interview , he left the driver 's seat and came round to the passenger 's door . |
3 | They boy ignored him , though , and came up to the wood . |
4 | They passed below them , into the narrower part of the field between the two copses , and it was not until Acorn had been sent half-way down the slope to attract their attention that they turned and came up to the ditch . |
5 | The grass was lush green and came up to the st'lyan 's hocks . |
6 | Mavis laid her knitting aside and came over to the bed , where , to my redoubled annoyance , she sat down and took my hands . |
7 | The green men in their cloaks of leaves and branches then discovered them , and came down to the beach and circled Dulé and his companions where they lay prone , and shook their fronds and squatted on their haunches and kicked their legs and tossed their heads and slapped palm to thigh , in order to rally them and send them off again ; pouring spirits and water into their faces to invigorate them , beating out a rhythm with their feet . |
8 | About a week later , I finished work early one day and came back to the house . |
9 | Stephen had a meeting with the shop steward the following morning at 8.30 , and came back to the house afterwards shouting to Victor the butler for strong black coffee . |
10 | Then he lost his nerve and rushed out of the flat and came back to the house to find me . ’ |
11 | Suddenly , to her relief , the telephone rang , Joanna picked it up , wrote down the message , and came back to the table , looking elated . |
12 | She headed away into tall grass , hid the baby and came back to the boat for the return trip to Tiger Haven . |
13 | ‘ One spring I left my noviciate and came back to the farm . |