Example sentences of "came [adv] [adv prt] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm afraid not , ’ he replied , and might have added more , but just then a car , a Skoda , driven by a man of about thirty , came slowly around to the rear of the house , and parked on a car standing area . |
| 2 | The lane from Bishopstow village came right up to the drive gates and ended there between stone gateposts crowned with lichened pineapples . |
| 3 | It was even more frightening than the chugging , and it came right up to the shelter door . |
| 4 | He came right up to the desk , towering over her , despite the solid barrier of wood . |
| 5 | Before the construction of the Promenade here , in 1903 , the sands came right up to the tram track , as seen in this view of a Dreadnought approaching the terminus . |
| 6 | The shintiyan were ordinary trousers , not undergarments , and came right down to the ankle . |
| 7 | Those going by sea of course came right down to the quay in in Porthmadog . |
| 8 | In my day we had long skirts , near came right down to the ground . ’ |
| 9 | In the second half , Thame came more in to the game and created a couple of chances , however in the sixty fifth minute , Sean Liden won the ball on the halfway line , his long ball found Gary Weaving who turned and placed a low shot past Mayhew to make it one nil . |
| 10 | They encountered no difficulties en route , although they had to traverse one of the most dangerous ambush points in all South Scotland , at Pease Dean , where the Lammermuirs came directly down to the coast in steep wooded slopes cut up by deep ravines , and round which travellers had to wend their narrow , devious way . |
| 11 | A lion padded towards them with shaggy gold mane and blood-stained jaws , came straight up to the car window . |
| 12 | Forrester has not been playing much in the reserves but came straight on to the bench after his injury . |
| 13 | The trees and undergrowth came almost up to the house . |
| 14 | The only things worth saving were a mulberry , a cherry plum and the Magnolia grandiflora which at the time came barely up to the window and is now heading for the roof . |