Example sentences of "the [noun sg] come [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The sun comes up each morning , the Pope 's a Catholic , and Donna Fratelli 's still sticking her nose into other people 's business . ’ |
| 2 | Phil : When the paediatrician come in next morning , I mean he only was in there two seconds , he looked her up and said ‘ Typical mongol ’ , either ‘ Typical mongol features ’ or ‘ Typical mongol face ’ , it was one of the two he said , and I could have killed him … |
| 3 | It 's law to wear a helmet when you 're on the motorway came out last January . |
| 4 | I think more people see the back coming up that way than they do the front window |
| 5 | When the mist comes down many areas like the Somerset Levels take on a sinister and unreal appearance |
| 6 | The Father came out this morning to say that the hall could , one of the first things Father told him was that the hall could n't be insured , I mean it even staggered erm Doris , cos she 's not heard of that before , impressed , I do n't know what impressed is , but |
| 7 | Well it was on at that time I was dropping pancakes and crumpets and the manager come up one morning and said that there was running late . |
| 8 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
| 9 | My dogs were frantic , and so was I , I hauled one last time , the line came back two centimetres , the hook came free and the dogs roared away . |