Example sentences of "[adv] come a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VARIOUS : ‘ Night And Day — The Cole Porter Songbook ’ ( Polydor ) with the renewed interest following ‘ Red Hot And Blue ’ , along comes a superb collection of this classic English gent 's epic songs by a host of jazz greats , including Ella Fitzgerald , Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday — out now |
| 2 | The passenger has always come a poor second to the operational integrity of the system . |
| 3 | Certainly there was every need for a road-widening scheme : four years earlier , in the October of 1793 , poor old Parson Woodforde had nearly come a nasty cropper on Frome Hill , when the chaise he was in had had an unfortunate encounter with a large ‘ heavily loaden ’ London waggon , complete with eight horses : |
| 4 | Two years later came a much-publicised split with his wife of 21 years , Tina . |
| 5 | Back came a signed copy of her latest book ‘ The Best of Edna Jacques ’ and a letter typed on the same old machine on which she pounded out her poems . |
| 6 | Now comes a swinging zigzag of a rise to Urigen ( 1,280m , 4,198ft ) . |
| 7 | Oh here comes a nice man with er an injection . |
| 8 | Here comes a brief history of the Korean war starting in about , yes , about ninety seconds on the Korean war erm North Korea invades South Korea and won . |
| 9 | ‘ So how come a nice girl like you is trailing the streets of London beating up strangers under an assumed name ? ’ |
| 10 | We have indeed come a long way from 1882 , and can look forward to the challenge of the 1990s — the closer harmonisation of our concerns with those of other conservation bodies . |
| 11 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 12 | Just as he spoke there came a strange cry from across the moor . |
| 13 | Out of this morass of doleful depression there came a bright ray of hope and a rhyming solace to the weary and dispirited housewives of the country in the person of Edna Jacques . |
| 14 | From the enemy there came a sudden clamour of shouts . |
| 15 | When Wales won the Triple Crown in 1988 with a team who had amble development left in them , the future looked bright ; then came a calamitous tour of New Zealand followed by sundry other mishaps and the outlook became as dark as an All Black jersey . |
| 16 | And then came a great booming from overhead . |
| 17 | Then came a narrow lavatory with an old-fashioned bowl of decorated porcelain and a mahogany seat with , above it , a hanging chain set under a single high window . |
| 18 | Then came a characteristic note of banter : " who ever believed that General de Gaulle … should content himself with opening flower shows ? " |
| 19 | For a moment , Henry thought she was going to laugh , and then came a sudden explosion of sobbing . |
| 20 | Then came a sudden reversal of fortune : flops ( some , but by no means all , deserved ) in ballet and the theatre ; his father 's death ; a scandal arising from a prosecution for homosexual activity . |
| 21 | It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
| 23 | Shortly afterwards came a Saudi response to Iran 's continuing attempts to teach Riyadh a lesson . |