Example sentences of "[pers pn] come the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I came the Hamlets a bit .
2 When I came the ambulance you see .
3 With them came the realisation of new opportunities and the belief that higher education was no more a man 's privilege .
4 Beneath them came the cearls ( churls ) the heads of substantial rural households , many of whom were free .
5 From the kitchen behind them came the sound of Mrs Brissett cleaning up vigorously and singing ‘ The Holly and the Ivy ’ .
6 Below them came the jurisdiction of the thegns , apparently already organised by the early eleventh century in the districts that , as Norman lordships , were to form the later rapes .
7 Behind them came the yeomen and husbandmen and the better-off craftsmen , and at the rear and along the south wall sat the cottagers .
8 Along the road behind me came the country bus from Kouvola .
9 ‘ I shall still want you to come the day after tomorrow . ’
10 I can hold my own hand thank you came the reply and she did .
11 Their daughter had provided all the labour-saving devices : dishwasher , washing machine , spin-dryer , all housed in a disused still room near the back door , although until she came the Copleys had been reluctant to use them in case they could n't turn them off , visualizing the machines whirling away all night , overheating , blowing up , the whole rectory pulsating with an uncontrollable power .
12 We came the back way , ’ said Doyle .
13 The moment we admit our need , the moment we come the realization , I 'm lost , I ca n't help myself , that 's the moment that we can be helped .
14 ‘ I told him to come the day before the operation , ’ she says ‘ I thought I 'd still be looking fairly reasonable then . ’
15 They came the year after the big storm in 1947 and she decided she would turn their spare milk into cheese .
16 They came the Friday night to go for the midnight mail you know the one that comes to meet the boat .
17 Behind him came the queen .
18 Behind him came the c. -in-c. and his staff .
19 To him came the reports about the militia and its armaments , the loyalties and affiliations of the country gentry , the names of recusants , the affairs of Ireland , and the politics of foreign countries .
20 ‘ He walked by the tree shade of sunny winking leaves , and towards him came the wife of Mr David Shehee MP .
21 Behind him came the Husayn twins .
22 With it came the realisation of the meaning of the horrifying dream about the little muttering peasant .
23 With it came the sense of the words Benedict 's tongue had scorched into her skin : ‘ you 're mine ’ .
24 But with it came the recognition that the ability of the system to facilitate this process is limited .
25 That same Sunday , in the evening , there was played out in the Cabinet Room the sad farce of waiting for the telegram of conditions for the line of credit front Morgans ' in New York , relayed through the Bank of England , and containing when it came the terms which were wanted by MacDonald and Snowden , but which were anathema to half the Cabinet .
26 It was open and through it came the sound of a cello .
27 Throughout the 1960's the Club continued to increase its membership and with it came the demand for better facilities backed up with plenty of suggestions !
28 The call must come first , and with it comes the vision and the burden .
29 Well to tell you the truth , I went to own school , when it was er winter , when it comes the winter , they bate somewhere for the winter , do you see ?
30 It comes the day after a village post office was held-up at gunpoint and a police officer shot at .
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