Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] come the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that decision came the near certainty , strenuously denied at the time , that Aden would grow into a fully fledged military base . |
| 2 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 3 | There was another train coming the other way on the track next to her . |
| 4 | There could have been another car/coach/taxi coming the other way ! ’ |
| 5 | A lady George thought sombrely , with a fine appreciation of the political timescale come the inevitable memorial service in three weeks ' time people would already be asking ‘ Barling ? |
| 6 | His finest moment came the first time he opened the hall door to a visitor and , standing a little aside , intoned , " Follow me , sir , " before proceeding with due dignity to announce the guest at the door of the morning room . |
| 7 | FROM THE home of the original Bambaataa the chieftain who led the last great Zulu revolt against white rule comes the African Hip Hop Movement . |
| 8 | Throughout the black night came the dull thunder of the bursting banks , the village alarm of ‘ she 've blowed ’ . |
| 9 | After the first ascent by a six-year-old schoolgirl comes the first junkie-ascent of Europe 's biggest ( not counting Eastern interlopers ) . |
| 10 | Periodically through the dust and the rutted mud came the laden pedlar , on his feet or the back of a donkey ; and from his strapped load presently spilled the trifling , precious wares of his trade-the cheap gloves and laces , the toys , trinkets and gee-gaws , the lengths of material — and , most important of all for our purposes here , the ballad sheets , broadsides and booklets that brought news of the wider world and stories and verse to give pleasure round the hearth in the long winter evenings . |
| 11 | Out of the crisis of investor confidence caused by the Great Depression came the best-known scheme of securities regulation , that of the United States . |
| 12 | He did this to demonstrate for all time to come the extraordinary greatness of his grace in the love he showed us in Christ Jesus . |
| 13 | Fringing this stunning awareness came the long-forgotten knowledge of status . |
| 14 | Frogmarched to the open rear doors , she met the fourth man coming the other way , his arms struggling to restrain the squirming , yelling child . |
| 15 | Out of that realisation came the explosive mixture of a massive emigration from East Germany and an overwhelming popular challenge to the party inside it . |
| 16 | From General Portfolio comes the Financial Health Scheme , which provides cash for surgical operations carried out under general anaesthetic in a UK hospital . |
| 17 | In the same play comes the following exchange : |
| 18 | And it could be that he will be battling his old team-mates for the big prize come the New Year . |
| 19 | After King of the Wild West came The Frozen North , but that was by no means such a success . |
| 20 | Around him in the eating house a few other diners sat , chatting quietly , and from the next table came the muted click of the pieces being moved by two players of twenty-squares . |