Example sentences of "come [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The man would , of course , have come fasting to the first Mass of the day .
2 Their work points the way to a revision of plate tectonic theory and ideas about mountain building The USGS geologists , Mark Blake , David Howell and David Jones , have identified six distinct ‘ episodes ’ gradually creating present-day California Chunks of land came crashing onto the western side of the continent and spread out before fixing themselves to the existing coastline .
3 Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement .
4 And I did n't tell him that he came banging on the bloody door and all that .
5 Before any more could be said , Stephen came hurrying into the cobbled yard , hand outstretched , his face beaming with pleasure .
6 They came marching up the rough track .
7 She came crawling across the pitch-black floor , the scuff of her knees completely muffled by the clatter of raindrops .
8 when you came down at dinner time , when you came charging into the common room .
9 In the morning a little aeroplane came buzzing across the blue window-pane of sky and alighted on the sugary beach .
10 She had not drawn her curtains , and she turned on her side , staring out at the velvety darkness , listening to the little noises that came wafting through the open window .
11 Yet more sweet scent came wafting from the generous drifts of white alyssum that softened the open areas of stone chippings in Cheshire Pink shade — a surface that makes a practical alternative to the conventional lawn and can be defined and contained by brick edging .
12 Determined not to hold Penry up , she made her purchases at such speed that she was outside , waiting , when he came striding down the narrow street to collect her .
13 'E 'd come running from the back garden and we nearly bumped into each other coming round the corner of the 'ouse .
14 The other one come come come crashing through the double glazing .
15 As soon as the monster is in motion , twin tides of spuds and stones come pouring along the two channels , potatoes on one side , rocks on the other .
16 Come blundering through the old stonework .
17 Des relaxes his shoulders , and suddenly there 's a roar like a dragon dying , and about twenty visored policemen come backing into the far end of the tunnel under a hail of bricks and missiles from their front .
18 Cadmus ' grandson , his day 's toil deferred ( dilata parte laborem ) , comes wandering through the unfamiliar woods with unsure footsteps ( per nemus ignotum non certis passibus errans ) , and enters Diana 's grove , for so fate would have it ( pervenit in locum : sic illum fata ferebant ) .
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