Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] come the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bent double , and from the front prayer aisle came the distant cry : Allah hu-Akbar ! |
| 2 | The car skidded for what seemed like an eternity and the lady driver coming the other way did her best to stop , but we collided head on . |
| 3 | In the first category of penal reform groups come the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders ( NACRO ) , the National Council for Civil Liberties ( Liberty ) , the Howard League for Penal Reform , JUSTICE , and the Prison Reform Trust . |
| 4 | The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it . |
| 5 | He was just telling the driver of the light engine that he would be away in a minute , when from Bradley Fold station box came the 4-5-5 signal ( train or vehicles running away on the right line ) . |
| 6 | AGAIN on the comedy front comes the continuing saga of life with the Meldrews . |
| 7 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |
| 8 | Flashing through the birch wood came the white Mercedes-Benz , from which he leapt in his greatcoat and then dashed across the yard yelling out orders . |
| 9 | Through the swing doors came the same chef , this time carrying dishes of mushrooms , tomatoes and fried eggs . |
| 10 | His first world title came the following year when his Alfa enabled him to register three more wins and a six-point win over Ascari in the championship . |
| 11 | As it was , alongside the battering ram of Scottish public opinion came the well-directed arrows of Charter 88 's Democracy Day to force the key questions of liberalising and decentralising the governance of Britain on to the political map . |
| 12 | Through open windows or balcony doors came the mingled sounds of pots clattering and televisions blaring , an indication that most families were having their evening meal . |
| 13 | AFTER the razzmatazz of Information Technology year comes the sober assessment of how Britain can remain a force in this discipline . |
| 14 | When the office lifers came the next day and tried to make the computer come up with some figures they wanted , what it printed out was this poet 's poetry instead . |