Example sentences of "come [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 2 | I was going to come charging down from the top of a sand-hill . |
| 3 | I heard recently that Australia has come whooping out of the closet . |
| 4 | It 's a bit embarrassing to come staggering out of the mist , with a purple face , eyes lost in swollen , battered tissue , gasping for breath , to find people wandering around the path in cardigans and slacks . |
| 5 | Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice . |
| 6 | More film roles are expected to come rolling in after the Oscars on 29 March , although Thompson claims she is a no-hoper for glamorous parts . |
| 7 | He did n't expect us to come rolling out of the pubs drunk , and the Yorkshire pudding to get flung at the ceiling with the gravy running down the walls like the tears of a black madonna . |
| 8 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
| 9 | To come tripping through without a by-your-leave ? |
| 10 | ‘ They had to come streaming out of the forests and down to the Bright Palace , in answer to the summons of their Lords … ’ |
| 11 | Dyson half expected him to come jerking back for a reprise of the First Collect . |
| 12 | CHRIS EUBANK could n't help himself — the words of tribute to Michael Watson came tumbling out in a torrent , a year to the Saturday since he put the brave Londoner into a coma . |
| 13 | And , every twenty minutes or so , a storm broke : thunder rumbled , lightning flickered , and tropical rain came crashing down from the showerheads fitted in the ceiling . |
| 14 | The ground trembled and over-head many bikes , toy tractors , etc. strung above the ceiling for display purposes , came crashing down upon the team . |
| 15 | She must have sat alone there for a good quarter of an hour , singing to herself , before Henry and Lettice came crashing back through the woods , squealing that they had seen Humphrey and Janet and must take to the skiff at once . |
| 16 | A car came speeding out of the fog , mounted the pavement and smashed into them . |
| 17 | However , I made my position very clear to the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus sports hack , Mark Crowe , when he came sniffing round at the funeral . |
| 18 | Scraps of paper , issuing from the city , came twirling in through the cab window . |
| 19 | As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea , lashing against the car and obliterating everything . |
| 20 | Otley came tearing back down the stairs white as a sheet and put the mug of cocoa down on the table . |
| 21 | Ranulf and Maltote following suit just as the two crossbow quarrels came whirring out of the darkness , skimming the tops of their heads . |
| 22 | ‘ And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman . |
| 23 | Hers said it was by mistake but I know it was n't and he came wandering out of the wood , all black and shaggy like the Beast in the fairy tale in the most peculiar clothes , very ancient , and dreadful wild hair like pictures of the Prophets . ’ |
| 24 | Hotspur put up a hand to the furred collar of his cloak , and let it slide from his shoulders ; and like a silent and attentive valet the girl came gliding out of the shadows and took it from him . |
| 25 | Caspar came bounding out of the tangle of fallen trees below the cliff . |
| 26 | She came stumbling back into the dining car followed by a commotion of people yelling behind her . |
| 27 | A group of shaven-headed yobbos , with tattooed cheeks and nationalistic leanings , observed this from the upper deck and came swarming down from the bus . |
| 28 | United came bouncing back with an equaliser at the start of the second half . |
| 29 | Also , I had sobered up by then and caused some complications by trying to stop the cheque — until my father came squealing on to the line . |
| 30 | As she let herself in at the front door her mother 's voice came booming out of the kitchen . |