Example sentences of "[noun pl] come a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bit her lip , crumpling the note in her hand , and into her eyes came a look so desolate that Taggy 's heart contracted . |
| 2 | With this reduction of social activities came a sense of social exclusion . |
| 3 | Five riders came a cropper and the meeting was abandoned . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | THE policeman shot by an IRA gunman after stopping a van loaded with explosives came a whisker away from death , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 8 | Down Agamemnon Street , leaping motor cars and fleeing rioters came a hoard of Afghani horsemen . |
| 9 | His comments came a day after his partner Stephen Boler said he would consider selling his 30pc shareholding in the club — but not without Swales 's permission . |
| 10 | From the loudspeakers on the corner pillars came a selection of popular songs by Gracie Fields . |
| 11 | Banners were lowered , and behind the pavilions came a procession led by pages in tight quilted jackets , multi-coloured hose and gaudy feathered hats . |
| 12 | Such comments come a bit rich from the Opposition , when they have opposed each and every training initiative that we have introduced during the past 12 years and when we are spending two and a half times as much in real terms as the Labour Government did . |
| 13 | With the wars came a rise in the price of corn . |
| 14 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |
| 15 | The drastic cuts come a week after Aldershot were wound up and rekindle fears for several Fourth Division clubs facing closure . |
| 16 | After a bar of eighth notes comes a pair of sixteenths followed by a quarter 's rest , then a long , low root — just right ! |
| 17 | HOPES for one long Liverpool waterfront lined with thriving shops , offices and leisure facilities came a step closer today . |
| 18 | It seems protecting oil supplies comes a lot higher on the priority list . |