Example sentences of "[adv] come [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Into her mind quite suddenly came an image of Craig . |
| 3 | From somewhere far below came a series of metallic ‘ clonks ’ . |
| 4 | From below came the noise of the street door . |
| 5 | From below came the sound of small boys damaging furniture . |
| 6 | He could hear the pipes chugging and banging together and from below came the rattling of pots in the kitchen , and the faint smell of a freshly lit fire . |
| 7 | They listened as from the cellar below came the strains of a deep male voice singing a sentimental ballad . |
| 8 | I mean , we , we used to have , like , we 'd have meat come twice a week , they 're the butchers , and then we 'd have coming , maybe , erm , once a week , and then like the dry goods , er , erm , we 'd have another day , where erm , you know , you have different things , basically coming every day . |
| 9 | More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s . |
| 10 | Although passenger cars are expected to be 80–90 per cent ‘ cleaner ’ ( and lorries 75 — per cent ) under the plan , there obviously comes a point where , unless there is an endless expansion of the road system , so many vehicles will defeat their purpose , mobility , and still be , however ‘ clean ’ , a pollution problem . |
| 11 | Lastly comes the RX-V600 ( £449.95 ) , a DSP unit with a built-in 40 station AM/FM radio tuner section and five power amplifier stages . |
| 12 | Eventually came a glimmer of hope . |
| 13 | From somewhere came the sound of a woodman 's axe , like the final moments of Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard . |
| 14 | From within came the crash of reggae music . |
| 15 | From within came the strains of an orchestra . |
| 16 | From outside came the noise of Doyle starting the car . |
| 17 | From somewhere outside came the sounds of some kind of commotion ; raised voices and the clattering of a glass door . |
| 18 | From outside came the sound of impatient whining . |
| 19 | From the rectangle of hard , white light fifty feet away came a hubbub of shouts and catcalls . |
| 20 | From far away came the call of a wood pigeon . |
| 21 | From far , far away came the sound of children crying . |
| 22 | From the passage downstairs came the sound of the landlady 's singing voice . |
| 23 | Thus came a conflict of views . |
| 24 | There soon came a point , however , when Maazel found out for himself that there was more to Puccini than the ‘ singable tunes ’ he played for his father . |
| 25 | Finally came a state of detachment which could misleadingly be regarded as recovery . |
| 26 | Finally came the bookshop where dear Mr Sneddles tried to eke out a living . |
| 27 | From the invisible house above came the sound of the bell . |
| 28 | Clearly there will soon come a point where every practising teacher will become familiar with the ‘ newspeak ’ of attainment targets , statements of attainment , levels , keystages , programmes of study , standard assessment tasks , and profile components , with none of which any of us was familiar two short years ago . |
| 29 | The dangerous thing is that cliffs fall away to the north without warning , and someone getting lost in thick mist could easily come a cropper . |
| 30 | Next backwards comes a waft of dog fart . |