Example sentences of "[noun] come [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When the rags came out the mass of frizz made Sally screech with horror but when Louise had teased it a little with her Mason Pearson brush and a long tail comb Sally saw that the usually severe schoolgirlish cut had been transformed into a mop of pretty curls .
2 From a thousand voices came back the response : ‘ He is risen indeed , Alleluia ! ’
3 A horse came down the ramp in one bound , as if on wings , hit the concrete in a shower of sparks .
4 Mrs Singh came down the hall and opened the door , smiling .
5 Carrie sat around the bed with her mother and Fred chatting for a while , and it was not too long before they saw Joe Maitland coming down the ward .
6 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 .
7 with sort of a trail of red blood coming out the middle !
8 Light coming down the barrel is focussed by a small plastic lens onto the photo-diode and the device is sensitive enough to detect the changes in intensity of the picture .
9 Compare , for example : ( 16a ) I was glad to see the police car come around the corner .
10 ( 16b ) I was glad I saw the police car come around the corner .
11 ‘ The cars come down the bank there very quickly .
12 So when you take your trolley back and clip it back up the pound comes out the front again .
13 The stewardess came down the aisle , a big-breasted young woman exuding a strong odour of perspiration .
14 A groan of real sympathy came down the line .
15 Victoria came up the room and seated herself on the couch , and without either greeting or preamble , she said , ‘ I 've had indigestion ever since Christmas Day .
16 Just needs a string of natives bearing head bundles and brollies to come up the footpath . ’
17 This time he could almost hear a patient sigh coming down the telephone .
18 Coffin heard feet coming down the staircase from the upper floor of the house .
19 Not , says UI , to kowtow to any kind of preconditions SunSoft wants UI to meet for the firm to close on the desktop issue , but simply that USL does n't have resources to do all the development work coming down the line .
20 But over the succeeding weeks only a handful came out the rest chose to stay .
21 In sing-song came back the reply : ‘ A bonkeleh is a greisa kuss ’ — accompanied by a noisy demonstratory kiss on the child 's forehead .
22 ‘ Oh , have you not ? ’ snapped the other , coming hastily forward to confront her as Theda came down the rest of the stairs .
23 And you have acid coming up the gullet ,
24 Trev 's Browning skipper Tony Marti said : ‘ We fished a Super League practise session last September and we saw an oil slick coming down the canal then .
25 And I said well yeah look thing buzz coming out the end .
26 In the face of recent doubts surrounding Intel 's future plans for its i860 RISC , Du Pont says it is now under non-disclosure for a new iteration coming down the line — though there 's no hint of silicon just yet .
27 And always when a funeral come down the school road , there 's blinds would be taken down as well .
28 She saw only her darling come down the room Nicandra might have walked alone , so unaware was Aunt Tossie , for the moment , of the little friend .
29 Since the objectives themselves are unreal and unclear , and since there are so many people at every level , multiple messages come down the line the whole time .
30 Erm it 's a simple flow system , raw material comes in at one end and flows through the plant , through the machining areas , through the assembly , and the new product , the finished product comes out the end .
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