Example sentences of "[pers pn] came up 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 | Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path . |
| 3 | ‘ As we came up the trackway of your house , Sir John , we found a Hand of Glory with a lighted candle in its fingers . ’ |
| 4 | " They came up the streets towards the station , crowds of people , young men . |
| 5 | Danish invaders found their way to Lough Neagh between AD 849 and AD 1014 but whether they came up the Bann is uncertain . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He came up the week before on his own but he played two rounds every day . |
| 9 | He came up the garden shouting something — they did not properly hear him . |