Example sentences of "a [noun sg] come [adv prt] [art] [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 She could see the ground for a distance round the beech-tree , and as she gazed down she noticed a man coming along a path a short distance away .
9 The noise was stilled as a voice came over a microphone .
10 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 .
11 A purr came down the line .
12 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 .
13 And a chap come out the offices and say right , you you you .
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