Example sentences of "[noun sg] came [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With just 15% of the vote Labour came a bad third at the last election , but a recent opinion poll , commissioned by the Liberal Democrats , revealed a surge in support for Mr Kent at the expense of Sir William — narrowing the gap between the two parties from 22% to 7% . |
| 2 | From out of the terrible confusion came a different voice , a gentle voice , a voice that understood . |
| 3 | And there were fires , too , on the skyline above them , while on the wind came the mournful blast of a trumpet . |
| 4 | To his right wing the hills sloped gently down and were of little interest but on his left they formed a steep escarpment up whose side came a soaring wind . |
| 5 | A naked woman squatted there , her face hidden behind a black veil ; from her mouth came a foul toad and round her neck curled an amber snake , its red-slit eyes flashing like diamonds . |
| 6 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 7 | Into his mind came a sudden vision of a classroom at Commonweal School , with motes of chalk-dust swirling in shafts of sunlight . |
| 8 | Before she had time to assimilate anything , from the top of the gangway came a terrible growl — deep , huge , more frightening in its ferocity than any wild animal she 'd ever heard . |
| 9 | In the next instant came a great flash . |
| 10 | With that decision came the near certainty , strenuously denied at the time , that Aden would grow into a fully fledged military base . |
| 11 | The Labour government lost office in 1951 , however , to be replaced by a Conservative one , and with this change came a different approach to economic policy which included the revival of monetary methods of control — in particular the manipulation of bank rate and associated interest rates . |
| 12 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 13 | From the kitchen came a high whistle . |
| 14 | Marching through the churchyard came a strange lantern-lit procession . |
| 15 | Ian 's moment of glory came a few days later . |
| 16 | British Telecom partly-paid came a close second , volumes hitting 53m as the shares firmed 19 to 1191/2 ( after touching 126p ) . |
| 17 | After King of the Wild West came The Frozen North , but that was by no means such a success . |
| 18 | From the hall came a welcome interruption . |
| 19 | That requirement came a great deal sooner than anticipated . |
| 20 | Down the aisle came a blond choirboy , in sheet and halo , his pure voice just cracking , accompanied by a very limited multitude of the heavenly host . |
| 21 | They bent double , and from the front prayer aisle came the distant cry : Allah hu-Akbar ! |
| 22 | Out of the mouth of this serious , pretty girl came an impenetrable , sub-literate provincial dialect . |
| 23 | Du Camp records his friend 's dismay at the book 's historical misfortune : a year after publication came the Franco-Prussian war , and it seemed to Gustave that the invasion and the débâcle at Sedan would have provided a grand , public and irrebuttable conclusion to a novel which set out to trace the moral failure of a generation . |
| 24 | From the hut came the nauseating stench of human excrement . |
| 25 | Before she had quite given in to despair , however , from out of the doorway of the inn came a dour old man in ancient , shabby livery , with shiny elbows and tarnished braid . |
| 26 | Two Scots with Cambridge connections took up Faraday 's work at last , trying to put it into mathematical form rather than to fit the discoveries into an existing theory ; and through their work came the great flowering of classical physics . |
| 27 | Flashing through the birch wood came the white Mercedes-Benz , from which he leapt in his greatcoat and then dashed across the yard yelling out orders . |
| 28 | From outside the window came the shrill piping sound of the juniors playing netball . |
| 29 | To the latter question came a rambling reply which encompassed various themes : the economic , the scientific , the geographical , the touristic and , lastly , the ideological . |
| 30 | Nearer , a plump , important-looking individual was tallying the stores being unloaded from a recently arrived wagon , and from the armoury came a steady clanging as the blacksmith hammered the dents out of the shield of a knight , who stood by watching . |