Example sentences of "[coord] come [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We were in New York , and came round a corner to find fifteen Father Christmases trying to decide whether or not to go on strike . |
2 | When he finally arrived in Calcutta he was not of course allowed to stay with us at the Sisters , which puzzled you children , but he stayed with the Oxford Mission Fathers and came over every day to see us , until a kindly businessman heard about us and took us along to his palatial house until we could decide what next to do . |
3 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
4 | Joe stood up and came down the table towards Harriet Shakespeare . |
5 | Benedict rose and came down the table . |
6 | Then the lawyer sighed , rose from his chair , and came down the table to take another next to hers . |
7 | She came to the rehearsal and came down the bridge over the orchestra where I was directing , and she said to the manager , ‘ If this veil remains , I do not sing . ’ |
8 | But he did n't even wait to hear her protests that she was all right , and came back a minute later with two hospital pillows which he arranged for her , and she thought the faintly male , musky and intensely sensual smell of him as he bent over her was making her more faint than loss of blood . |
9 | Joe trotted off and came back a couple of minutes later , holding a parcel . |
10 | Erm , and I asked him to stop and come down the isle . |
11 | Apparently they either found me dad down the cellar or he recovered and come up the cellar like , you know . |
12 | I said I 'd come down again tomorrow night and come up the house for an hour er take him up the |
13 | so you had to go right round and come down the mud down |
14 | Bodies are shaped several at a time and come off the machine almost ready to finish . |
15 | ‘ We have the ‘ revolving-door ’ syndrome where people who have been sent to jail go in one door and come out the other . ’ |
16 | 67-year-old , took early retirement from engineers seven years ago , but came back a year later to become the head office caretaker . |