Example sentences of "came [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenna began heatedly , but he glanced away as his mother came towards them across the lawn . |
| 2 | As relief spread to pure pleasure she waved and came towards him across the yard like a young girl . |
| 3 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 4 | But nothing came of it in the end . |
| 5 | And it seemed to them that there came against them on the part of the Christians full seventy thousand knights , all as white as snow : . |
| 6 | The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds . |
| 7 | Arthur Cook , a friend of mine who lived in The Friary , came with me to the allotment and after a while I suppose we became bored — we were only seven . |
| 8 | She came with him to the door . |
| 9 | She came with him to the door , and the light from the hall cut an orange path across the roadway . |
| 10 | She came with him to the door , uneasy , perhaps scared . |
| 11 | Shrimpton came with him to the top of the stairs . |
| 12 | When Christian left for London to begin his new life in the Methodist ministry , Seb took him to the railway station at Shipton-under-Wychwood in the farm 's gig and Carrie came with him for the ride . |
| 13 | ‘ You came with us to the Fleet . ’ |
| 14 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
| 15 | When the Second World War broke out in Europe , it was difficult to get supplies of helpful books , and when the Japanese came into it after the disaster of Pearl Harbour , I myself , as well as the clergy and students for whom I had a pastoral responsibility , felt the need of prayers to meet the threatening danger , as well as the provision of prayers which would express a Christ-like spirit about war , enemies in war , dangers in war and sufferers in war . |
| 16 | I came over it below the farmhouse and hugged the side wall like I 've seen them do in the movies until I could peer round into the farmyard . |
| 17 | At the same time , the sound of distant gunfire , explosions and shouting came to him on the night breeze , somewhere off his right and muffled by the intervening trees . |
| 18 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 19 | Whilst Richard Baxter was visiting his sick father in Shropshire , Mr. Baldwin came to him with the news that he too had been forbidden to preach . |
| 20 | The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal . |
| 21 | Although , like us , he 'd had no news , either from the guards or television or magazines , he somehow felt he had a lot of information that came to him through the ether . |
| 22 | Carrie 's voice came to him in the darkness . |
| 23 | It was an insight which came to her on the spur of the moment . |
| 24 | Lightness and truth came to her with the wind 's speed . |
| 25 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
| 26 | Picasso 's grand-daughter , Marina , is selling forty-eight of his works which came to her in the share-out among the family of his estate , and which are normally kept at the Geneva freeport warehouse . |
| 27 | When he initially came to me with the novel , I thought , ‘ Victor 's a Rasta , it 's going to be something about Haile Selassie . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The composer came to me with the piece , which had written with me in mind , ’ says Lin . |
| 29 | Aunt Louise came to me at the end of the summer . |
| 30 | No more than an hour passed before Jean-Claude came to me in the scullery and said he would be away for a few days . |