Example sentences of "[adv] come [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To sort of make out s make sure you 've got this and that so you 're ready for the confinement and er But they only came the last minute when when they were the ma mams were expecting their babies .
2 In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert .
3 In came the clothes shop owning , rugby playing manager Joe Moss , and in came a traumatic realisation that bedsit jabbering and glorious friendships were not enough .
4 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 .
5 The door it adorned was open and from inside came the familiar sound of a photocopier on print and collate .
6 First there was a small elephant and it had the natural financial goal painted on its side , then along came a bigger elephant with a bigger number , and then a huge elephant with a huge number , and he said , ‘ Go for it !
7 Then along came a new managers ' tool for community care planning called The X Factor .
8 Then along came an entrepreneurial Yorkshireman called Thomas Stamford Raffles .
9 From somewhere below came a great rending and echoing squeal of torn metal .
10 Suddenly from below came the unmistakable sound of gunfire , the roar of a shotgun sounding along with a short sharp burst of a machine gun .
11 and I only come every two weeks you see so
12 Down comes the house ; down come the tall trees , naked and gashed lies the once beautiful park .
13 Out of the land of heaven Down comes the warm Sabbath sun .
14 Out goes the old entry-level 486/P range in comes the 486/L family .
15 VARIOUS : ‘ Night And Day — The Cole Porter Songbook ’ ( Polydor ) with the renewed interest following ‘ Red Hot And Blue ’ , along comes a superb collection of this classic English gent 's epic songs by a host of jazz greats , including Ella Fitzgerald , Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday — out now
16 And so comes the baleful conclusion : that Vietnam , a war that split America apart on class lines , continues to be a national sore , causing a steady throb of pain .
17 Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships .
18 Finally comes the simple message : ‘ The Church of England this Sunday . ’
19 The passenger has always come a poor second to the operational integrity of the system .
20 Off came the stylish suit and soon she was again prancing provocatively around the stage in a skimpy pink sequined bra and shorts .
21 From below he heard shouting and running feet , and from further off came the muffled sound of more gunfire .
22 Off came the flying jacket and up for sale went the £200,000 aircraft .
23 The two humans were still coming the other way .
24 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 :
25 Two years later came a much-publicised split with his wife of 21 years , Tina .
26 A few minutes later came the first gun-fire .
27 Later came the acute attacks of asthma — and the need for Caroline to pummel me ( it 's hilarious only in retrospect ! ) as I fought for breath .
28 Somewhat later came the present owner , John Matta , who now takes great pleasure in greeting Citalia guests and welcomes them on arrival with a gift of the wonderful Chianti Classico from his excellent cellars and offers them a typical Tuscan dinner at a reasonable price , which is taken most weeks in the castle 's impressive banqueting hall .
29 From the cinema itself there also came a piercing cry .
30 For instance , some of the poem 's ideas came from Milton 's Paradise Lost , some came from Bruce 's account of the source and fountains of the Blue Nile in Abyssinia , whence also came the Abyssinian maid playing on her dulcimer .
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