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As they came up the path, Marianne could see that Margaret's eyes were red-rimmed, her face flushed.
He came up beside me a couple of seconds later, and we walked out of the class, and down towards our lockers together.
The issue of the bridge came up again, for the second month in a row, and again the topic was hotly debated.
Ball after ball was lofted into the Colt goalmouth but time and again their defence came up trumps as they repelled attack after attack.
Rossendale came up against a team not only top of the league but also a side playing with bags of confidence.
The person who came up with this programme is a madman from a madhouse, a madman but a genius.
The beach boffins came up with a formula to work out the quality of the grains of sand and its cohesive powers.
Yes, my friend and I came up with that when we were having a sci-fi movie marathon.
A deep rumble came up from the depths of his throat and his breathing quickened.
After washing him up, and taking his outer clothing off, she was about to leave when a heavy hand came up behind her and pulled her down.
Finally, I came up with the idea of the backslash, which is sort of a theme throughout all the songs.
Then in 1964 he came up with the idea of setting up contrastive tagmemes of subject-as-actor in contrast to subject-as-goal.
But after class, he sometimes came up to me in the hallway and started bad-mouthing those students who had challenged him.
Three separate covered carts, pulled by four horses each, came up the drive and stopped in front of the manor.
He waited for what seemed to be hours before the priest came up the creaking, lopsided ladder.
As power on the good engine came up, yaw would have to be countered with rudder into the good engine.
All I came up with was a series of brain achingly long reports that left me more confused than when I started.
The children came up with some weird and wacky designs including a pink and purple dinosaur covered in sequins.
Sophia came up to her, brushing her long manicured fingernails against her cheek.
In friendly jest, one of the waiters came up to her and wagged his finger gently, indicating that the establishment did not approve.
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Now his hand shot over to the emergency brake, and this came up with all the power at his command.
Another person came up, and we also referred him to Poe, that told us the man had run over into the funeral home parking lot.
The counterman came up and wiped the counter clean in front of him with a rag that might have been white once upon a time.
As he came up the slant of the embarcadero, Chesney had actual difficulty in walking.
Gerry asked as McTavish's red bearded face came up through an escape hatch.
We left fundi with the lion, instructing him to stay there until some of the other men came up.
So Nathan Perry came up out of the mines a believer in the union, and the closed shop.
His copper-bottomed ships came up with and captured six of the enemy, five of which were English prizes.
A man came up to her and asked if he could show her the way to the dead-letter office.
For a full minute she was silent, then her eyes came up and gave it back to me with their electric blue.
You did not tell me this when you came up to the chalet last night, and sent for me.
The eosine plate was underexposed, but brought up everything fairly well except the scarlet hat, which came up like black.
Five minutes later the whole crew poured up, thronging the foredeck, while old Jerry came up to the bridge in mild astonishment.
Although rich, the fossor was keenly bargaining, as they came up, with a wealthy and miserly leather-merchant.
When the tomb of Saint Cecilia was opened an odour of roses came up from her coffin.
We had barely finished when the chief petty officer came up and examined the clews.
At length the clerk came up to him with awkward manners and a look of constraint.
Just at that time there came up behind him a poor moujik, who felt sorry for the beggar, and gave him a copeck.
The Throg ship came up in a burst of speed, and Shann waited tensely for some countermove from the scout.
It came up from and disappeared into the creek, so I was sure it must have been a Gahonga.
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