Example sentences of "[adv] come the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The door it adorned was open and from inside came the familiar sound of a photocopier on print and collate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Out of the land of heaven Down comes the warm Sabbath sun . |
| 7 | Out goes the old entry-level 486/P range in comes the 486/L family . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Finally comes the simple message : ‘ The Church of England this Sunday . ’ |
| 10 | Off came the stylish suit and soon she was again prancing provocatively around the stage in a skimpy pink sequined bra and shorts . |
| 11 | From below he heard shouting and running feet , and from further off came the muffled sound of more gunfire . |
| 12 | Off came the flying jacket and up for sale went the £200,000 aircraft . |
| 13 | The two humans were still coming the other way . |
| 14 | A few minutes later came the first gun-fire . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | two minutes behind came the first horse … for only the second time the wheels had won … |
| 18 | Now came the key play of the king of spades . |
| 19 | Now came the difficult part : telling Patterson I was borrowing his car . |
| 20 | Back came the prolonged roar : ‘ No . ’ |
| 21 | Back came the pompous reply : ‘ We never attribute emotions to Her Majesty . ’ |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Now comes the boring part . |
| 24 | And now comes the final indignity — excommunication from Cluedo . |
| 25 | But now comes the idiosyncratic twist . |
| 26 | Now comes the second step , the act of measurement itself , the ascertaining where the electron is or how it is moving . |
| 27 | Now comes the skilful part . |
| 28 | Now comes the first LP — picked up by Guernica in the face of widespread interest — which confirms the potential ‘ Palomine ’ , with nine original tracks , and one Sebadoh cover , is a warm , uplifting and engrossing record . |
| 29 | A number of players were tried out with the championship very much in mind and now comes the real test for the youngsters on Sunday in Newry . |
| 30 | Now comes the National Academy of Sciences , the advice-spewing , honorary pinnacle of American science , with a super-nationalistic design for re-establishing harmony between science and its balky patron : Science , Technology , and the Federal Government : National Goals for a New Era ( 54 pp , free from the NAS Committee on Science , Engineering , and Public Policy , 2101 Constitution Ave , NW , Washington , DC 20418 ) . |