Example sentences of "she came [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The babe was fretful with teething , but as she came along the corridor she heard a gentle humming above the baby 's wails . |
| 2 | When she came through the door , he 'd be behind it . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't have to do that , Hank , ’ she said , as she came through the back gate . |
| 4 | ‘ Nana , you know , I ca n't cross the fording in my shoes any more , ’ she began as she came through the gap in the severely-clipped hedge . |
| 5 | She heard Agnes begin to protest as she came through the doorway , and called out , ‘ Benedict ! ’ |
| 6 | Mrs Hobden went into the kitchen , and a few minutes later she came through the doorway carrying a tray . |
| 7 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 8 | It was for Signora Kettering and her English upbringing told her that it was unthinkable to open letters addressed to someone else ; and yet as she came down the stairs and met the driver she had been taken , as she felt sure she was meant to be taken , for Signora Kettering . |
| 9 | But , as she came down the steps of the beautiful russet Georgian house , first impressions were very depressing . |
| 10 | In the late 1880s , dissatisfied with atheism , she came under the influence of Madame Blavatsky of the Theosophical Society . |
| 11 | While Yeats was away in Ireland , the patient was admitted to the infirmary where she came under the care of John Pulley , who did n't believe the story . |
| 12 | Laying her basket down , she ran towards the shriek , her feet slipping on the loose ground as she came under the trees , until she finished with an uncontrollable slide that landed her almost on top of Oz . |
| 13 | She came towards the door . |
| 14 | The ships had some 10 miles to go ; the MLs had used their extra fuel and filled the spare tanks with seawater as they stole into the estuary in two columns , headed by MGB 314 : These motorboats are difficult to handle at slow speed and Campbeltown was sluggish , but at speed she drew an extra foot aft and every inch counted as she came towards the mud . |
| 15 | Afterwards she came into the kitchen while I washed her clothes and hung them on a bush in the garden to dry — and there was nothing in our words or manner to suggest that all this was not quite ordinary and everyday . |
| 16 | One day , she came out to the perimeter fence ; another , she came into the kitchen when they were making me some food . |
| 17 | Mother answered , then she came into the sitting-room and announced , ‘ Clare 's coming home . ’ |
| 18 | She came into the sitting-room and sniffed . |
| 19 | She came into the school grounds , I 'm pretty sure she crossed the headmaster 's lawn , but after that I lost her . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Well — she came into the school grounds . |
| 21 | And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’ |
| 22 | She came into the working-men 's club one lunchtime and got her bottle of stout . |
| 23 | As she came into the restaurant , the Hungarian band was playing Leslie Stuart 's Soldiers of the Queen , revived for the Jubilee . |
| 24 | James was aware of Sarah Byrne from the moment she came into the dining room carrying the soup tureen . |
| 25 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
| 26 | She , she did mention the Guides when she came into the talk with me . |
| 27 | A couple of weeks after Brighton she came into the shop , presuming we were going out together that evening — without having told me what she intended , I 'd arranged to go and see a band with a mate from art college . |
| 28 | The only occasions upon which she came into the attic herself were pharmaceuti-cally driven , to bring tablets , linctus , suppositories , or to ‘ cup ’ her son . |
| 29 | Myra asked as she came into the office carrying a mug of tea . |
| 30 | The result was a striking contrast to the dull brown tinged with grey that Pamela had when she came into the salon . |