Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] come [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Morgan 's a nine-piece inlaid mahogany parlour suite came under the hammer at £1,950 and an upright overstrung Steinway piano went for £850 . |
| 2 | If the EEC did wish to go beyond the 1962 agreement on agriculture , the arrangements of which were in any case due to expire in 1965 , if financing was permitted to come from the EEC 's own resources , and if the latter were to be levied on imports , then it was sensible for the EEC budget to come under the control of the European Parliament . |
| 3 | The League felt that it was important , especially as United are chasing the championship , that the First Division programme came to an end on schedule so they moved the Rumbelows Cup replay . |
| 4 | Enemy resistance came in the form of accurate flak and fighter attacks . |
| 5 | The IRA has admitted planting eight firebombs in Milton Keynes last week.The admission came in a statement which went on to accuse the police of endangering public safety by ignoring bomb warnings . |
| 6 | The proposed rule change comes against a background of concern about the speed of the game , which was the subject of an ATP Players Forum held during the Lipton International Players Championships in Key Biscayne in March ( see Parsons ' Perspective ) . |
| 7 | If the yeast foods caused you to have an abdominal reaction , then you may find the weight loss came to a standstill this week . |
| 8 | An investment appraisal comes with the project . |
| 9 | The military-style event took place yesterday at the Southlands Centre , Ormesby Road , Middlesbrough , where 80 students from the town 's Longlands College came under the scrutiny of Divisional Officer J Doyle , training officer for Cleveland Fire Brigade . |
| 10 | But soon a Kuomintang agent comes on the stage , and recognizes Sister Chiang . |
| 11 | Indeed , as this book has argued , party identities were being forged before the succession issue came to the fore , and even during the Exclusion Crisis , party conflict was not solely — or even mainly — about the Catholic succession . |
| 12 | The sounds of England , the tinkle of the hammer on the anvil in the country smithy , the corncrake on a dewy morning , the sound of the scythe against the whetstone , and the sight of a plough team coming over the brow of a hill , the sight that has been seen in England since England was a land , and may be seen in England long after the Empire has perished and every works in England has ceased to function . |
| 13 | There was an emergency Cabinet meeting shortly after 11 p.m. , and as it progressed the storm clouds that had been gathering all Saturday evening came to a head . |
| 14 | The little maid whom Elisa had seen earlier standing by the door in the sitting room came into the dining room on both occasions and whispered something into his ear . |
| 15 | They could hear the sound of music coming nearer , and everyone turned as a silver band came round the corner into the main dusty street , men dressed in grey trousers and pink shirts , their instruments glistening in the morning sun . |
| 16 | The South Wales Cricket Association XI came within a raindrop of becoming the first British team to meet South Africa during their tour of Australia and New Zealand . |
| 17 | The review mode came with a colour VGA display , which is a luxury if the machine is to be used as a dedicated file server . |
| 18 | By manipulating the number of days in the intercalary month they could prolong a term of office or hasten an election , with the result that by the time of Julius Caesar the civil year was about three months out of phase with the astronomical year , so that the winter months fell in the autumn and the spring equinox came in the winter . |
| 19 | But also , by the time the programme drive came to an end [ when the Emergency ended and with it the effective coercive powers of than government ] , millions had suffered harassment at the hands of government officials bent on implementing it , many , perhaps hundreds , had died from it ; the political leaders who had willed it were out of power , and in disrepute , and the programme itself was in total disarray . |
| 20 | After the crumbling Victorian brickwork of the exterior , IAP 's ultra-modern nerve centre came as a shock to both Nadirpur and Saint Julien . |
| 21 | International : Easter prayers answered as Etna lava flow comes to a halt |
| 22 | Castor oil comes from the bean but so does a powerful skin irritant , and a deadly poison called ricin . |
| 23 | The review model came with a colour SuperVGA display , a low-radiation CTX monitor , plus a 1Mb Trident VGA card which all adds up to a fine non-dedicated server . |
| 24 | Von Frisch trained a scout bee to come to a source , and then placed out new sources at equal distances from the hive , but only one at the same direction as the original . |
| 25 | ‘ Then the riot squad came in the middle of the night while the men were sleeping in their beds . |
| 26 | The stark warning from the London-based Automotive Research Unit comes in the week car workers at the Mersey plant celebrated the opening of the new £190m V6 engine plant . |
| 27 | And red-breasted merganser headed purposefully out to sea — as our four-hour boat trip came to an end . |
| 28 | Buller 's Hill House came as a surprise . |
| 29 | A growing scandal over illegal funding of the PS and of Mitterrand 's 1988 presidential re-election campaign came to a head in April . |
| 30 | An even closer parallel is John Milton 's masque of Comus , which Tolkien must have admired partly for its theme — it is an analogue of ‘ Childe Rowland ’ , a tale of a maiden lost in a dark wood and imprisoned by a wizard , till her brothers and her guardian angel come to the rescue — but even more for its hovering between fact and symbol . |