Example sentences of "as [pers pn] came [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path . |
| 4 | Just as she came out the council she said I I 'm just outside the council offices ringing you . |
| 5 | She had caught his eye as she came down the aisle . |
| 6 | But Tallis , as she came down the bank , could see that he was frightened . |
| 7 | ‘ As we came up the trackway of your house , Sir John , we found a Hand of Glory with a lighted candle in its fingers . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well I saw that pai , I saw the shop as , as we came down the Ayleston Road , near the terminus . |