Example sentences of "a [noun] came [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A horse came down the ramp in one bound , as if on wings , hit the concrete in a shower of sparks .
2 But over the succeeding weeks only a handful came out the rest chose to stay .
3 A man came up the ladder from the engine room and Dickie opened his letter .
4 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 .
5 A purr came down the line .
6 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 .
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