Example sentences of "came [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rodomonte came crashing to a halt as withdrawal pains shot through his arms and legs . |
| 2 | Moments later two boars came crashing through the undergrowth . |
| 3 | A moment later , the big , galumphing dog came crashing through the reeds and … |
| 4 | It came crashing through the window . |
| 5 | Their work points the way to a revision of plate tectonic theory and ideas about mountain building The USGS geologists , Mark Blake , David Howell and David Jones , have identified six distinct ‘ episodes ’ gradually creating present-day California Chunks of land came crashing onto the western side of the continent and spread out before fixing themselves to the existing coastline . |
| 6 | As Ryker came careering into the kitchen , Julie threw back the cellar hatch and came hurtling forth like a maddened trap-door spider , brandishing the hammer . |
| 7 | Suddenly the deerstalker came whizzing through the air , and as , instinctively , she caught it , he bellowed , ‘ And get rid of that ! ’ |
| 8 | The court heard that PC Whitehouse had been questioning the driver of another red Ford car when the Sierra came speeding round the corner . |
| 9 | When no one answered her , she came stamping into the room with a scowl on her face . |
| 10 | Finally Don Marco came rattling down the track in his battered Fiat and shook Haverford enthusiastically by the hand , ignoring the rest of the family . |
| 11 | And in the nineteen thirties America went into the worst economic depression it 's ever seen and the state governments were literally overwhelmed by the economic hardship and the economic problems and the federal government came galloping to the rescue . |
| 12 | ‘ In the midst of the conversation at his house in the wooded hills of Northern Virginia ’ , she recorded , ‘ a neighbour 's horse came galloping down the road , riderless . |
| 13 | ‘ He jumped out and came galloping down the street , waving a sort of a club . |
| 14 | Ralph Lauren 's Polo aftershave came galloping into the kitchen , followed shortly by a now fully clothed Lee . |
| 15 | I was saved by Fritz , who came galloping round the castle to find me . |
| 16 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
| 17 | It was lovely to watch , the effortless , rhythmic flowing of the horse 's limbs and then Punch turned his mount and came thudding towards the road . |
| 18 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
| 19 | The silhouette of a small man in German uniform came shambling along the wire . |
| 20 | The old Chinese now came shambling from the kitchen , agog to hear everything . |
| 21 | The wind came whipping off the moor and bent the cypresses as if they were blades of grass . |
| 22 | A third fancied a documentary reconstruction , and the more the publicity , the more the letters came thumping onto the mat . |
| 23 | British Tommies were helping to restore order and a small patrol of them were on duty at the crossing of Commissioner and Pagoda Roads when a busload of young ruffians armed with sticks and dahs came tearing into the city . |
| 24 | A second later she knew what the sound was , for having heard her too , the most beautiful Dobermann suddenly came tearing round the side of the house and charged full pelt at her . |
| 25 | I wonder whether the same view would apply if Neil Young or Van Morrison came knocking at the door . ’ |
| 26 | The poor , sick , bereaved , came knocking at the door . |
| 27 | A small opportunity arose when Lizzie came knocking at the door for the ceremonial delivery of two silver-bound shoulder sprays , one , a gardenia , the other an orchid , and a card which said : From Robert . |
| 28 | So cos apparently , while he was on the phone she came knocking at the door then |
| 29 | Long before Doone came knocking on the door , Perkin could have decided , in case the girl 's body were ever found , to say he did n't remember her . |
| 30 | When he eventually became an overnight star after fourteen years of hard labour in Hollywood , the seekers of his past came knocking on the doors of his tutors and former friends . |