Example sentences of "[vb past] come [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat still and his words seemed to come crawling up the sunlight , over the grass . |
| 2 | It is a devastating blow to the latest Arab League peace plan , which — with parliament 's adoption of political and constitutional reforms and the election of the new president — had come to embody perhaps the most serious attempt of its kind to end the 14 ½-year war . |
| 3 | It is a devastating blow to the latest Arab League peace plan , which — with parliament 's adoption of political and constitutional reforms and the election of the new president — had come to embody perhaps the most serious attempt of its kind to end the 14 ½-year war . |
| 4 | Suddenly the night had erupted into a confusion of fire , noise and light , as first the house had erupted in flames and then five heavy vehicles had come roaring up the twisting driveway , headlights blazing . |
| 5 | And there was perhaps not so much to laugh at in that ; for by North 's trial , two and a half years after the breaking of the scandal , the overwhelming majority of Americans had come to feel much the same way . |
| 6 | As I recall , I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger , naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse , when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs . |