Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] come [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart . |
| 2 | A naked woman squatted there , her face hidden behind a black veil ; from her mouth came a foul toad and round her neck curled an amber snake , its red-slit eyes flashing like diamonds . |
| 3 | Two Scots with Cambridge connections took up Faraday 's work at last , trying to put it into mathematical form rather than to fit the discoveries into an existing theory ; and through their work came the great flowering of classical physics . |
| 4 | Jessamy 's temper gradually faded away and in its place came a deep feeling of unease . |
| 5 | In their places came a unified Ministry under the Secretary of State for Defence , who was given two Ministers of State with functional responsibilities to assist him . |
| 6 | To his right wing the hills sloped gently down and were of little interest but on his left they formed a steep escarpment up whose side came a soaring wind . |
| 7 | Into his mind came a sudden vision of a classroom at Commonweal School , with motes of chalk-dust swirling in shafts of sunlight . |
| 8 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 9 | Later to take his place came a converted motor cycle , and Walls " Stop me and buy one " . |
| 10 | By hyping through shock value alone Malcolm McLaren had provided a model with the Sex Pistols and in his wake came a new wave of manager-entrepreneurs who recognised that the process of ‘ selling ’ a performer began long before you signed a record contract . |
| 11 | Our chance came the following afternoon . |
| 12 | But the annual over-indulgence means most of those nuts will still be in your bowl come the New Year . |