Example sentences of "[noun] come a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've told Michael Roberts to come a lot later this time , ’ Brittain says . ’ |
| 2 | Out of rock came a stance of the rock concert rebel , where the crises and contradictions of the times could be played out as theatre . |
| 3 | Last Friday came a statement of ‘ clarification ’ issued by the party and the unions and finally there was the debate and another statement by Michael Meacher , Labour 's employment spokesman . |
| 4 | When Richard came a couple of steps nearer — it would never have occurred to him to go back until the matter was satisfactorily settled — Harry , looking faintly surprised , as though he could n't believe that anything could be quite so simple , raised the adjustable spanner and hit him on the left side of the head , just below the ear . |
| 5 | She bit her lip , crumpling the note in her hand , and into her eyes came a look so desolate that Taggy 's heart contracted . |
| 6 | But with the loss came a gain and the result was the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke . |
| 7 | With Habsburg rule came a strengthening of German cultural influences . |
| 8 | The tragedy comes a month after these wedding photographs were taken . |
| 9 | And out of that strangely distorted mouth comes a series of sounds that you will soon start to recognise . |
| 10 | With this reduction of social activities came a sense of social exclusion . |
| 11 | Dangling from the hook came a length of rope and a piece of leather larger than a dog collar , large enough , indeed , to have fitted a goat . |
| 12 | With the reorganisation came a readjustment of the Land Survey regional boundaries . |
| 13 | And with this change came a transformation in the organisation 's approach to its markets . |
| 14 | ‘ Father Furlong came a while ago and anointed her . |
| 15 | Five riders came a cropper and the meeting was abandoned . |
| 16 | With this body-blow came a plea for understanding . |
| 17 | Along with the rise in car ownership came a fall in interest in horse-drawn vehicles which were seen by many to symbolize war time austerity and petrol rationing . |
| 18 | From the inside of the hut came a thumping and screeching as the cassowary tested her dungeon . |
| 19 | Get back there ! ’ and from the constable came a shout of , ‘ Oy , you , stop that ! ’ |
| 20 | Through the open window came a breeze which separated and fluttered the curtains , which in turn made moving watery patterns of light and shadow on the white ceiling . |
| 21 | Furthermore , it gave the English a door into France : soldiers might land on the Breton peninsula on their way into the interior of France , and the possibility of a more co-ordinated attack from different directions came a step nearer . |
| 22 | Had her ordeal come a century or two later than it did , the unsinkable Sancie would have had an uplifting view during her brief immersion , for the church and the tower of Sauveterre look especially well from down below here by the river . |
| 23 | Just when there 's talk of the recession at least loosening its grip comes a body blow to Gloucestershire 's economy . |
| 24 | From a late Protogeometric grave at Athens comes a stag , body made on the wheel , head with long neck and limbs hand-made and attached , the whole decorated in contemporary vase-painting style . |
| 25 | And out of the disorder of the mangled metal work comes a process as flowing and systematic as if it were building a pristine model from scratch . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , another bloody escalation of the Balkan war came a step closer yesterday as the Bosnian Croat leader Mate Boban asked neighbouring Croatia to intervene to stop Muslims allegedly killing thousands of his people . |
| 27 | With each war came a flood of short-term credit in the form of exchequer , Army , Navy or ordnance bills with lengthening repayment periods creating a public credit crisis . |
| 28 | South Shields and Redcar drew 1–1 , while in the Premier League , Norton came a cropper at Ramgarhians , losing 4–2 to goals from F Mathuru , Pefull and H Mathuru ( 2 ) . |
| 29 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 30 | The punishment came a year later . |