come + [noise/manner of movement] V-ing

Part of language	English
Meaning of the construction	Someone or something moves towards a reference point in a specified manner, often in a manner that is fast, sudden, uncontrolled, noisy, or otherwise overwhelming.
comment	tables (of association scores, etc.) and possibly some figures

Construction elements

Colloprofile for Element 3

Examples

Example 1

Text	The back door burst open and six-year-old Sally came running excitedly into the room .

Example 2

Text	Then came thunder out of the east as rank after rank of tanks came roaring past, plunged through the infantry and turned north for the kill .

Example 3

Text	People came running with lanterns and torches, and soon hundreds of people were hurrying to the house .

Example 4

Text	A second or two later, everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below .

Research

Metadata

Date Created	2024-11-28
Annotator	Malin Patel
References	Gournay (2023/07/13). Implementing quantitative data in a qualitative contrastive approach: the case of COME+V-ING. 10.4000/11qbf

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