Example sentences of "[pron] came [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 2 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 3 | I came down the slope , trying not to smirk . |
| 4 | and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee , he was having a great time with that , I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte , no , no , I do n't like it I want the house , meaning the garage , so I 've gone out now and bought her a circus |
| 5 | And it was Sunday afternoon when I came out the pit the next time . |
| 6 | So I came out the pit and went into Cripps and bought a lorry . |
| 7 | Hot , bitter tears rolled down her cheeks , and with them came back the noise of the street . |
| 8 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
| 9 | I think there was somebody called who came down the isle and gave a couple of balloons . |
| 10 | Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path . |
| 11 | She had caught his eye as she came down the aisle . |
| 12 | But Tallis , as she came down the bank , could see that he was frightened . |
| 13 | ‘ And when she came back the situation was reversed ? |
| 14 | Just as she came out the council she said I I 'm just outside the council offices ringing you . |
| 15 | ‘ As we came up the trackway of your house , Sir John , we found a Hand of Glory with a lighted candle in its fingers . ’ |
| 16 | Late in the morning Valeria suggested we should all go down and have breakfast , and as we came down the staircase we saw to our horror that her mother was waiting for us at the bottom . |
| 17 | Well I saw that pai , I saw the shop as , as we came down the Ayleston Road , near the terminus . |
| 18 | It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered . |
| 19 | Everything that I do The other night when we came back the streets were deserted . |
| 20 | Cos you remember we came round , we came back the night before the traction engine rally cos I did n't have time to get organized . |
| 21 | " They came up the streets towards the station , crowds of people , young men . |
| 22 | Danish invaders found their way to Lough Neagh between AD 849 and AD 1014 but whether they came up the Bann is uncertain . |
| 23 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 24 | When they came out the club went mad , and they honestly believed that the crowd thought they were good . ’ |
| 25 | He walked straight back round the top of the little dale until they came down the slope to the road , well out of sight of the cottage . |
| 26 | sort of , the , the last pair went , went on and on and on , it got to twelve o'clock and the the , the landlord said right that 's it he said I 'm closing down no matter what , he said I 'd , I 've , he was n't eleven o'clock on , he said that 's it I ca n't keep it open any longer , so they closed it down , we called the game off , called it a boring match , they came down the club , fucking played them there , thrashed them out of sight first four games , no first five games , five nil , straight away , wahey , fucking walloped them , walloped their that was the , that was the league champion 's as well , Post Office in Grantham |
| 27 | I told him that when he came up the ramp he must accelerate on the throttle at speed so that he got the front wheel up in the air , so he would n't nosedive and hurt himself . |
| 28 | He came up the week before on his own but he played two rounds every day . |
| 29 | He came up the garden shouting something — they did not properly hear him . |
| 30 | When he came down the alley toward the club 's stage door he could see that there were three rough-looking teenagers who 'd clambered up the side of one of the big waste bins and were lifting stuff around inside . |