Example sentences of "[noun] come [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made 400 before great arcing beams of light snaked out above the eastern-bounding ridges of the valley and I had to stop as blocks and slates came hurtling down the softening snow . |
| 2 | The child comes to know when the special time is and guards it . |
| 3 | ‘ Madame ! ’ she called , and Miranda quickly bundled up her clothes and streaked across the landing , as the proprietress came heaving up the curving stair , the rail quaking in her grasp . |
| 4 | Firstly , official collections came to supersede entirely the old private ones and , secondly , from these four collections ( together with one of Innocent 's successor , Pope Honorius III ) the second great compendium of canon law came to be formed . |
| 5 | Kalchu came rushing up the notched-pole ladder . |
| 6 | This remark had important implications in the theory of the technique of psychoanalysis , where transference — the way the analyst comes to take on the emotional elements of a parent figure for the analysand — plays a key part in understanding the therapeutic effects of psychoanalysis . |
| 7 | Despite disclaimers which recommended submission to great works , the professional study of English came to transcend even the literary masterpieces themselves by virtue of its capacity to offer a complete and final assessment and achieve the kind of complete historical understanding unavailable to the historical actors themselves . |
| 8 | Neil Pascoe says he 's always wanted to cycle from John 0 Groats to Lands End and then the idea came to run up the three peaks and swim the lakes and try to raise money for charity … |
| 9 | When it does so , it has a bigger meal than it can manage by itself and many another animal comes to lap up the spilt yolk . |