Example sentences of "come [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The needs of commerce and government created a native middle class ( from which were later to come the leaders of nationalist movements ) . |
| 2 | But for decades to come the countries in which this happened were politically important as fields for the rivalries and ambitions of the European imperial powers rather than in their own right . |
| 3 | Then , while a Navy surgeon lieutenant — she liked the sport and a contract that would last nicely into her forties — had come the memoranda . |
| 4 | However , we believe that it was right that the statement should be made in the House , from which have come the decisions that , in our opinion , have done so much to encourage the IRA through the years . |
| 5 | There 's the ‘ I 'm so fat I could be a turkey ’ type of robin ; the ‘ Is n't there more to life than standing on this stupid twig ’ robin ; and , the special favourite , the robin with the ‘ How come the cattle always get to go in the stable ? ’ look . |
| 6 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
| 7 | Everyone was heading for the bedroom from which had come the screams . |
| 8 | IF TOYOTAS ARE SUCH GOOD QUALITY , HOW COME THE PARTS ARE N'T MORE EXPENSIVE ? |
| 9 | But then came the orderlies , who dealt with me by means of electricity and air . |
| 10 | Then came the families themselves . |
| 11 | Then came the problems of recessions , another war and the changing ideas of politicians no longer committed to nationwide public transport . |
| 12 | Then came the jungles of Borneo . |
| 13 | After the Reverend Whickens came the Reverends Gwillam , Price and Jenning , and in 1840 , when the Reverend Lee was in charge , the village is recorded as having 148 inhabitants , and ‘ The living … endowed with the rectorial tithes , with the perpetual curacy of Bartestree united , and valued in the King 's books at £4. 6s. 8d. ; present net income , £284 . ’ |
| 14 | Then came the Reverends Brown and Cope , and it was the latter who in 1877 witnessed the radical and excessive restoration of the ancient whitewashed church to produce what from a distance looks almost totally Victorian with its new little lead-covered spire and shingled bell turret . |
| 15 | First came the farmers and then more specialist cultivators : market gardeners , nurserymen and florists . |
| 16 | Through these curtains came the sounds and smells of fifty-nine other men who ranged in age from seventeen to eighty-four . |
| 17 | From the other rooms came the sounds or hammering , quarrelling and playing bridge . |
| 18 | James Lambert hesitated , turning towards the kegs , from behind which came the sounds of a scuffle . |
| 19 | From somewhere outside came the sounds of some kind of commotion ; raised voices and the clattering of a glass door . |
| 20 | The Russian soldier was just ahead of me. from the road came the sounds of men shouting and then a long burst of machine-gun fire . |
| 21 | Click clack click clack clock , came the sounds of weapons being cocked in the corridor beyond . |
| 22 | Then came the Hüskers split and what have been rather puzzlingly referred to as ‘ the wilderness years ’ . |
| 23 | Whence came the inducements for the move down to the docks ? |
| 24 | So … off came the venturi , on went the connecting hose direct to the NBS . |
| 25 | In came the clothes shop owning , rugby playing manager Joe Moss , and in came a traumatic realisation that bedsit jabbering and glorious friendships were not enough . |
| 26 | To him came the reports about the militia and its armaments , the loyalties and affiliations of the country gentry , the names of recusants , the affairs of Ireland , and the politics of foreign countries . |
| 27 | Then came the ranks of the individual lodges , men 's and women 's lodges separate , all in good order , with parade marshals keeping to the side of the ranks . |
| 28 | Then came the Ranks Hovis McDougall story . |
| 29 | Later , came the Haemastamen , and Larraman 's Organ : the former to monitor the Ossmodula and Biscopea and to enrich the blood , the latter to alter the blood 's clotting properties so that scar tissue would almost instantly close up any wound . |
| 30 | Behind that , laden with food , came the wagons . |