Example sentences of "come [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He 'd be expecting her to come dragging in at least ten minutes late , with a scowl on her face , unwilling and reluctant . |
| 2 | Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice . |
| 3 | She pulled them on hastily , half expecting Luke to come bursting in at any minute . |
| 4 | However , I made my position very clear to the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus sports hack , Mark Crowe , when he came sniffing round at the funeral . |
| 5 | ‘ You should have been there when that woman came leaping out at me . |
| 6 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 7 | She told Antonia about it in a hushed voice the night her friend came to sleep over at her house . |
| 8 | ‘ Look out , ’ she cried as tongues of flame blow-torched from the crevices around the bung and came licking back at us from the firebox . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're in luck , ’ said Jonna , as Ned came panting in at the doorway with an armful of heavily-foliaged twigs . |
| 10 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
| 11 | It did n't matter that they were coming to stare down at her and Ember with the ugly blueness of ghoulish satisfaction on their heads . |
| 12 | I would have been very concerned that some great big hairy bouncer would come leaping out at me ! |
| 13 | It relates to that other world , the great shabby confusion outside these walls to which I return each evening , to Timmy and Cheryl , to my mother-in-law who comes to help out at the weekends , to everything unresolved and unsatisfactory . |
| 14 | It changes the normal behaviour pattern of a ball so that the one you expect to move away actually comes racing in at you at 90mph . |