Example sentences of "come the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as you were getting to like a track he would tune it out periodically , a vehicle would come the other way , its lights flashing furiously . |
| 2 | Somewhere near the top must come the so-called ‘ demographic time-bomb ’ . |
| 3 | On the other side of the divide would come the ‘ interested ’ , the useful , the specialist , and the practical . |
| 4 | Hand in hand with an awareness of the feeling of the moment should come the ability to let that feeling go . |
| 5 | Yet once the processes were under way and the machinery was set up there did come the realisation that national goals must be set , often coupled with the very welcome awareness that this process is far too important a one to be left solely in the hands of the curriculum developers themselves . |
| 6 | Then would come the bitter pill , or as Jerry had termed it , our price for the outing . |
| 7 | The same applies if an Australian says : ‘ Do n't come the raw prawns on me . |
| 8 | And more often than not , out of the sun would come the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts , long before our fighters had had sufficient time in which to gain their best operational height . |
| 9 | Next in importance would come the discovery in 1964 of the cosmic background itself , by two scientists from the US Bell Labs , Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson , who stumbled on it while looking for ways of eliminating noise in radio receivers . |
| 10 | A stone hurled at a raised arm splashing casually in the approach , or the noise of stones crunched underfoot , was sufficient reminder of more deadly missiles that would come the way of a careless visitor on an enemy beach . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't come the Ancient Mariner with me , Nicholas Breakspear . ’ |
| 12 | Sooner or later , he knew , would come the tramp of heavy feet up the bare wooden stairs , the harsh pounding on the door and the imperious , loathsome voice of the KGB . |
| 13 | These were the Last Days , and soon would come the cleansing fire . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't come the old acid with me , ’ said his better half , ‘ you ai n't seen any bloke about a job since Noah built the Ark , and if anyone offered you one you 'd fall down dead . |
| 15 | From their ranks today will come the senior teachers of AD 2000 , so it is crucial for education , as well as for their own well-being , that this group is preserved from the fates of burn-out and cynicism . |
| 16 | Within this framework , the feat of believing that someone will come the day after tomorrow does not seem at all out of the way . |
| 17 | In the wake of such a wave would come the commitment to criterion-referenced , positive statements : to teacher-assessment and to a skills-oriented curriculum , identified earlier as the elements in a new certification consensus ; to the principles of curriculum depth , breadth , balance and differentiation integral to the design of GCSE and also central to much of the thinking about records of achievement . |
| 18 | ‘ And do n't you come the old biddy with me ! |
| 19 | More gannets will be arriving daily from winter quarters , which may be as far south as the coastal waters of West Africa and with them will come the great skuas to harry them for food . |
| 20 | Next would come the mission of the Church , what the Church does in liturgy and apostolic work . |
| 21 | ‘ She did n't come the day before yesterday . ’ |
| 22 | Among these borderline cases will come the short-story version of the inverted detective story we have already looked at , the story where the murderer is known to the reader from the outset and the pleasure lies in seeing how , inadvertently , he betrays himself , or she herself . |
| 23 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |
| 24 | And out would come the people to the door , course they could n't see anything or anybody , back they 'd go and then you 'd do it again . |
| 25 | On would come the dungarees at the weekend . |
| 26 | ‘ He 'll only break it , ’ would come the reply . |
| 27 | ‘ And they say that after the Conablaiche would come the Lad of the Skins , ’ said the soldier , and a sudden silence fell , because everyone knew about the Lad of the Skins and the Knife of Light , and how , if you fell into the Lad 's clutches , he would take your soul and you would be thrown for ever into the Prison of Hostages . |
| 28 | First on most reformers ' lists would come the financial situation , with specific benefits for prisoners ' wives . |
| 29 | The counsellor feared that would be the last she heard from him so she was pleasantly surprised when he did come the following week , bearing a letter from Susie in Denmark . |
| 30 | And then would come the elaborations , the inconsistencies , and finally the truth . |