Example sentences of "come the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as you were getting to like a track he would tune it out periodically , a vehicle would come the other way , its lights flashing furiously . |
| 2 | I mean it 's all right to say if you 're nice to them they 'll be nice to you erm it should come the other way round , that they should sort of respect other people 's property . |
| 3 | The counsellor feared that would be the last she heard from him so she was pleasantly surprised when he did come the following week , bearing a letter from Susie in Denmark . |
| 4 | More gannets will be arriving daily from winter quarters , which may be as far south as the coastal waters of West Africa and with them will come the great skuas to harry them for food . |
| 5 | And more often than not , out of the sun would come the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts , long before our fighters had had sufficient time in which to gain their best operational height . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't come the Ancient Mariner with me , Nicholas Breakspear . ’ |
| 7 | First on most reformers ' lists would come the financial situation , with specific benefits for prisoners ' wives . |
| 8 | The same applies if an Australian says : ‘ Do n't come the raw prawns on me . |
| 9 | Among these borderline cases will come the short-story version of the inverted detective story we have already looked at , the story where the murderer is known to the reader from the outset and the pleasure lies in seeing how , inadvertently , he betrays himself , or she herself . |
| 10 | ‘ And do n't you come the old biddy with me ! |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't come the old acid with me , ’ said his better half , ‘ you ai n't seen any bloke about a job since Noah built the Ark , and if anyone offered you one you 'd fall down dead . |
| 12 | Then would come the bitter pill , or as Jerry had termed it , our price for the outing . |
| 13 | Arrange the right papers for me at the Legation , travelling money and so on and I 'll come the low-risk way by rail . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't come the little mother with me , ’ he said testily . |
| 15 | From their ranks today will come the senior teachers of AD 2000 , so it is crucial for education , as well as for their own well-being , that this group is preserved from the fates of burn-out and cynicism . |