Example sentences of "came [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ You should have been there when that woman came leaping out at me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She told Antonia about it in a hushed voice the night her friend came to sleep over at her house . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're in luck , ’ said Jonna , as Ned came panting in at the doorway with an armful of heavily-foliaged twigs . |
| 7 | 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 . |