Example sentences of "[adv prt] come the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we settled ourselves , the boardroom door opened and in came the stocky figure of a man I had met , in quite different circumstances , a couple of weeks before . |
| 2 | Er we were married three years , no children and I began to get desperate again and an anyway along came the first then came the second . |
| 3 | Down comes the house ; down come the tall trees , naked and gashed lies the once beautiful park . |
| 4 | Out of the land of heaven Down comes the warm Sabbath sun . |
| 5 | Out goes the old entry-level 486/P range in comes the 486/L family . |
| 6 | So , just when you thought you could n't afford a real Paul Reed Smith and were going to spend what money you had managed to save on something else , along comes the new EG range . |
| 7 | Off came the stylish suit and soon she was again prancing provocatively around the stage in a skimpy pink sequined bra and shorts . |
| 8 | From below he heard shouting and running feet , and from further off came the muffled sound of more gunfire . |
| 9 | Off came the flying jacket and up for sale went the £200,000 aircraft . |
| 10 | Several months later out came the two hundred and thirty dollars and a message : " Your prayers have been answered . |
| 11 | And suddenly , with the water , out came the long slimy newt straight into the glass , plop ! |
| 12 | Dress in ‘ bad taste ’ was the order of the day at Key Street and out came the psychedelic shirts , hideous trousers , flower power shorts , multi-coloured spotted nightshirts , loud ties and luminous tights , complete with resplendent ankle socks . |
| 13 | Back came the prolonged roar : ‘ No . ’ |
| 14 | Back came the pompous reply : ‘ We never attribute emotions to Her Majesty . ’ |
| 15 | You signed up for tennis lessons ( out comes the shorty tennis skirt , a volley of wolf-whistles from the labourers outside , and off to the courts where the horrid male instructor drills you as if you 're in the Green Berets ) . |