Example sentences of "[noun] come a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 's announcement came a month after California 's two newly elected Democratic senators introduced a bill to preserve one-third of the federally owned desert land in their state , a measure that is expected to become law by this summer . |
| 32 | Hard on the heels of the Moroccan crisis came a wave of strikes in Asturias , Navarre and the Basque Country , in protest against economic hardship . |
| 33 | Behind the leaf-fall came a gust of budding , the black branches sprouting new growth in seconds , the growth bursting into leaf . |
| 34 | To the shrine came a trickle of pilgrims , which by the eleventh and twelfth centuries was growing into a flood . |
| 35 | Over a loudspeaker came a voice speaking Latvian , but Harvey handed me earphones that carried an English translation . |
| 36 | I turned the switch and I regret to inform you that out of the loudspeaker came a lot of old Irishmen singing maudlin songs . |
| 37 | In the south-west bath-wing there was a central room with a small cistern and niches for presumed ‘ ritual usages ’ ; from this room came a pottery model fir-cone , which could have been a votive offering . |
| 38 | In its place came a brashness and fortitude . |
| 39 | Then suddenly into the picture came a woman Patrick clearly loved enough to marry . |
| 40 | Yesterday 's drama came a year and a day after the North Yorkshire shootings in which Special Constable Glenn Goodman was killed and PC Sandy Kelly badly wounded by a hail of bullets fired by on-the-run IRA terrorist Paul Magee . |
| 41 | Women 's National champion , Melissa Watson , who races with the Swindon team came a cropper . |
| 42 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |
| 43 | The latest move comes a day after Ke Zaishuo , the senior Peking representative to the Joint Liaison Group — the Anglo-Chinese body overseeing Hong Kong 's return to mainland sovereignty in 1997 — blamed Britain for the crisis of confidence in the territory after the Chinese army assault on Tiananmen Square . |
| 44 | The move comes a year before his six-year BBC contract ends . |
| 45 | The move comes a week after Norman Lamont announced that the Queen will not pay tax . |
| 46 | After this initial time of taking in the news and trying to deal with its implications comes a time of absorbing the message given and trying to act on it . |
| 47 | It so happened that the first person to come a cropper on the steps was the warden Jane Cartwright , who was a good deal younger and more agile than those in her care . |
| 48 | ‘ I went to a clinic , taking the larva with me , to get it identified , and 10 minutes later back came a message : ‘ I hope you do n't mind if I keep it , I have n't got one in my collection . ’ ’ |
| 49 | I remember one time I reported that he had developed a cough and back came a directive that we should try to make an audio recording of it . |
| 50 | From Hamilton came a call from Winnie Ewing to join her on the platform at her eve of poll meeting , which ( as there was no Liberal standing ) I gladly accepted . |
| 51 | In the 15th minute came a carbon copy to her first goal as Jackie McWilliams increased Randalstown 's lead . |
| 52 | THE policeman shot by an IRA gunman after stopping a van loaded with explosives came a whisker away from death , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 53 | ‘ I knew about the pit , of course , since Betty Yaxlee came a cropper in it Friday morning . |
| 54 | With this new departure comes a desire to discover fresh approaches and further subjects for his exploration , an endless process of examination of which he is certain he will never tire . |
| 55 | From the other side of the globe comes a letter-book , 1906–12 , of J. H. W. Houstoun , postmaster and acting commissioner at Szemao in China . |
| 56 | ‘ Liverpool comes a bit too quick for him next week and he was only entered in case things went wrong at Cheltenham . |
| 57 | The proposal to close Seacombe Ferry comes a week after the revitalised service won a top tourist award for the second successive year . |
| 58 | OUT of Africa comes a bellow of defiance directed at Frank Bruno . |
| 59 | Sometimes , it may be wise to arrange for the mortgage advance to come a day or two before completion is scheduled . |
| 60 | The only difficulty with arranging for the mortgage advance to come a day or two early is that interest will be charged to the client-borrower a day or two before completion is actually scheduled . |