Example sentences of "a [noun] come [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
2 | A horse came down the ramp in one bound , as if on wings , hit the concrete in a shower of sparks . |
3 | I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand . |
4 | And always when a funeral come down the school road , there 's blinds would be taken down as well . |
5 | But over the succeeding weeks only a handful came out the rest chose to stay . |
6 | There is no pronounced tug of any kind , just a tremor coming up the line that feels as though someone is drawing a hacksaw blade across it . |
7 | A man came up the ladder from the engine room and Dickie opened his letter . |
8 | Several days before these events a ship came up the Ankh on the dawn tide and fetched up , among many others , in the maze of wharves and docks on the Morpork shore . |
9 | A purr came down the line . |
10 | Great carts pulled by as many as six horses at a time came up the roads from the east and waited at Ridgery Butts until a party of people who wanted to cross the forest formed up so that they could travel together . |
11 | And a chap come out the offices and say right , you you you . |