Example sentences of "[adv] come a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From somewhere below came a great rending and echoing squeal of torn metal . |
| 2 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
| 3 | The passenger has always come a poor second to the operational integrity of the system . |
| 4 | Certainly there was every need for a road-widening scheme : four years earlier , in the October of 1793 , poor old Parson Woodforde had nearly come a nasty cropper on Frome Hill , when the chaise he was in had had an unfortunate encounter with a large ‘ heavily loaden ’ London waggon , complete with eight horses : |
| 5 | Two years later came a much-publicised split with his wife of 21 years , Tina . |
| 6 | Later came a walled but obviously peaceable settlement . |
| 7 | From the cinema itself there also came a piercing cry . |
| 8 | They went on holiday to a farmhouse at Ponsworthy in Devon and thither came a vast parcel , from the Clerical and General Tailors ( Breeches Makers etc. ) , of Sackville Street , Piccadilly , bill £376 ; chimeres , wristbands , rochets , frills , breeches , gaiters , purple dress coat , black barathea breeches , patent court shoes , silver-plated shoe buckles , and other less rare articles of apparel . |
| 9 | From behind came a dry , hollow rustle … close now … and the stench of the poultry house … |
| 10 | Now comes a swinging zigzag of a rise to Urigen ( 1,280m , 4,198ft ) . |
| 11 | Now comes a fine Teldec Digital Experience disc which sonically sweeps the board . |
| 12 | All the time the tide was coming and now was smashing against the wave breakers , but here came a big wave . |
| 13 | as if the 10-string Chapman Stick — the notoriously demanding tap-technique instrument — did n't offer enough musical possibilities , here comes a new big brother in the form of the Grand Stick . |
| 14 | Oh here comes a nice man with er an injection . |
| 15 | Here comes a brief history of the Korean war starting in about , yes , about ninety seconds on the Korean war erm North Korea invades South Korea and won . |
| 16 | All this was happening and now this com here comes a Tory record . |
| 17 | We have indeed come a long way from 1882 , and can look forward to the challenge of the 1990s — the closer harmonisation of our concerns with those of other conservation bodies . |
| 18 | The SNP has indeed come a long way since Jim Sillars , as vice-president of the SNP , in a section of his Independence in Europe pamphlet ( June 1989 ) entitled ‘ The David Martin formula ’ , referred to Europe of the regions as a ‘ nebulous concept ’ . |
| 19 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 20 | Just as he spoke there came a strange cry from across the moor . |
| 21 | From somewhere outside at one point there came a distant rumble and chinking , like old milk bottles clashing together . |
| 22 | as if to confirm his train of thought there came a great crashing and a screeching of metal . |
| 23 | Puzzled , he wondered if she had gone upstairs to her children , which she did not do as a rule , and was about to ascend ; when from up there came a great cry , and the sound of a fall from the window . |
| 24 | Out of the darkness there came a single brilliant flash . |
| 25 | And one day when she was working in her little garden slithering between the vine yams there came a green snake . |
| 26 | Out of this morass of doleful depression there came a bright ray of hope and a rhyming solace to the weary and dispirited housewives of the country in the person of Edna Jacques . |
| 27 | From the enemy there came a sudden clamour of shouts . |
| 28 | When Wales won the Triple Crown in 1988 with a team who had amble development left in them , the future looked bright ; then came a calamitous tour of New Zealand followed by sundry other mishaps and the outlook became as dark as an All Black jersey . |
| 29 | Then came a long anxious wait in the foyer oft he Great Southern Hotel . |
| 30 | From then on , the walk was far less interesting : we passed the Bishops Wordsworth School Sports Field then came a long dull stretch to The Rose and Crown , that always looked decrepit until renovation in the ‘ thirties . |