Example sentences of "[noun sg] come [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remainder come from the following categories : |
| 2 | Charlie is unaware of the spirits alive in him , so that the narrator of the story is frustrated in his attempt to come at the uncluttered account of past lives . |
| 3 | The allegation came on the third day of an insurance fraud trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 4 | Calls for an inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) of the Yongbyon nuclear power complex came after the alleged discovery by United States monitoring services , reported in the Washington Post in August 1989 , of an apparent new reprocessing facility , capable of producing enough plutonium to manufacture one atomic bomb per year . |
| 5 | The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas . |
| 6 | The softly spoken command came from the third man , who had remained silent until now . |
| 7 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 8 | A chill wind came through the open doors to the balcony . |
| 9 | The biggest Nazi vote came from the rural districts , and the lowest came from urban areas , where the SPD , KPD and DNVP were still firmly based . |
| 10 | The doors stayed open but no murmur came from the other room . |
| 11 | Louisa had been skidding unsteadily about the ice for the best part of an hour when a carriage came round the rear drive of the Hall and , after a moment 's debate , Edwin Frere sprang down to give a helping hand to his well-muffled wife . |
| 12 | The first chance of real action came in the late summer of 1940 after the retreat from Dunkirk . |
| 13 | Then a little light came through the uncovered spyhole , a flickering , surreptitious light . |
| 14 | Early morning summer light came through the barred window and lay on his uncovered back , making a checkered pattern with his freshly healed wounds . |
| 15 | Light came through the stained-glass skylights , which were predominantly green and blue , and through a wall of windows of clear glass that held the faintest hint of turquoise . |
| 16 | The study was empty ; the light came from the adjacent room . |
| 17 | Apart from the lamps that gave a yellow glow to the leaves , the only light came from the big windows of the Communist club which was packed on both floors , its discotheque going full swing . |
| 18 | The only light came from the big fire . |
| 19 | All the doors off it had been closed , and the only light came from the open archways at its beginning and end . |
| 20 | Czechs in Cleveland to learn how to cope with job losses WAYS in which the North-East came through the industrial upheaval of the '70s and '80s could prove an invaluable blueprint for revival for the people of Czechoslovakia . |
| 21 | The first hint that there might be a connection between black holes and thermodynamics came with the mathematical discovery in 1970 that the surface area of the event horizon , the boundary of a black hole , has the property that it always increases when additional matter or radiation falls into the black hole . |
| 22 | The impetus for this study came from the disastrous upsurge in the levels of these diseases , particularly gonorrhoea , which was increasing at 10 to 15 per cent . |
| 23 | As well as the despairing cries of ‘ oops ! ’ from the light beams , she could now hear a muffled , mocking chant coming from the ray-gun box : ‘ Yah , yer missed ! |
| 24 | For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction , killing the other driver instantly . |
| 25 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | I recognized some pirated recordings of Sade in cabaret coming from the upper floor and , louder , some mid-period John Coltrane from the living-room . |
| 27 | A square of light coming through the open hatch made half-hearted patterns through the ladder and silhouetted the Negro . |
| 28 | Lying together in bed with creme brulee and champagne to hand , the only light coming from the soundless telly , curtains left open to the soft night , they talked over old times . |
| 29 | Does the horse come to the stable door to investigate you , and perhaps give you a friendly nuzzle ? |
| 30 | ( The word booze comes from the same source . ) |