Example sentences of "[ex0] come [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 After 1956 , with the Soviet cause politically and morally bankrupt , there came a gradual softening of the brutal Stalinist line of the immediate postwar years .
2 Then from out there where Slorne 's gaze had led him , from out of the dark moonlit sky , there came a distant calling of a name , a place , a power , and it was like a great presence he could only feel and not see , and it cast itself over him , and over his cage , and over the whole Zoo , and over more than that .
3 After the strike by Madrid cleaners , there came a two-day stoppage by workers in the hotel industry .
4 He was just scooping the lard out of the trout mask when there came a violent knocking at the bedroom door .
5 As Rincewind stared at the crowd , with sensations of prickly horror travelling up his spine , there came a gentle prod in the small of his back .
6 But during the second half of the century there came a new approach to physiology , involving chemistry .
7 After the two men had served more than six years in prison , there came a new twist to the case .
8 But , almost at the end of the ascent , there came a new series of alarming jerks and they juddered to a halt once more .
9 One eye-witness account noted : ‘ At twelve noon , when the horses were pulling the Indian , there came a great gust of wind , and after this a rain shower which made everyone , including the soldiers , run for cover at great speed .
10 Once production was under way there came a great demand for the engines from the ore mines of Cornwall .
11 The company had seated themselves again , and conversation was just beginning to resume , when there came an authoritative rapping of knuckles upon wood and M. Dupont had risen to his feet .
12 But just as man 's dates were being pushed back , there came an unhappy interaction between geology and physics , again two sciences which had not seemed to have a common frontier .
13 As a result , there came an increased acceptance of the view that persistent , and unacceptable , inequality and want might be built into the economic system unless the state made key interventions along the lines of the German model .
14 After a while there came the distant sound of rushing water .
15 There came the faint scuffle of moving feet , and a dark shape moved out from the rear of the car .
16 There came the unmistakable sound of legs shooting into denim , then the zip going up .
17 But before his ‘ Flying Circus ’ could be properly established at Verdun , there came the shattering news on June 18th of the death of Immelmann .
18 At that moment , there comes a new way of seeing and the sensation of tears is felt and with it the ecstasy of seeing the eternal or divine .
19 ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’
20 Here , among ‘ Prayer wheels , worship of the dead , denial of this world , affirmation of rites with forgotten meanings ’ , some of the stuff of Eliot 's earlier poetry and his anthropological researches , there comes a visionary instant of incarnation forming a link between God and man and , in Eliot 's own poetry , between Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets : ‘ A moment not out of time , but in time , in what we call history ; transecting , bisecting the world of time , a moment in time but not like a moment of time . ’
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