Example sentences of "[adv] come the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Down comes the house ; down come the tall trees , naked and gashed lies the once beautiful park . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Dress in ‘ bad taste ’ was the order of the day at Key Street and out came the psychedelic shirts , hideous trousers , flower power shorts , multi-coloured spotted nightshirts , loud ties and luminous tights , complete with resplendent ankle socks . |
4 | Claire recovered but when Allitt was again left alone with her almost immediately came the inevitable words ‘ She 's gone ’ , he told the jury . |
5 | The same applies if an Australian says : ‘ Do n't come the raw prawns on me . |
6 | Forget Kylie — here come the crisp bags Yorkshire students are making music for the ears of world famous composers with everything from sneezes to zips . |
7 | CELL , FROM Hoboken , New Jersey , slung a 45 out on Thurston Moore 's Ecstatic Peace ! label a couple of months ago and the word on the street was that here comes the New Nirvs ! |
8 | Then came the first signs of recovery with the opening of his eyes and a squeeze of his wife 's hand . |
9 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
10 | Then came the two saviours of modern Aegina , tourists and that prince of nuts , the phistiki , alias the pistachio . |
11 | Then came the everlasting skies of summer where the sun hung like a silver cauldron and sent meteors of sparkle among the ice . |
12 | Then came the blustering denials of any intention to act dishonestly , which did little to help their cause though many were sincere . |
13 | In the very early years , people were really exploring ; then came the early botanists who identified what they saw and made lists ; later came the ecologists who related plants to their environment ; by the 1980s conservation of the flora came to the fore . |
14 | Then came the startling developments in Eastern Europe and a British response which has been much admired . |
15 | Zina Garrison , the beaten Wimbledon finalist last summer , lost in the first round , but not much of consequence occurred until Sanchez-Vicario toppled Mary Joe Fernandez in the quarter finals — and then came the heavy matches . |
16 | Then came the post-war years of austerity , the food and fuel shortages . |
17 | Then came the inevitable qualifications — much depended on the state of international trade and on the efficient running of industry . |
18 | Then come the secular offices : those of chamberlain or treasurer ( the treasure was kept in the king 's chamber ) , the count of the palace , who handled legal appeals not heard by the king himself , the seneschal , the butler , the constable and a string of other household officers . |
19 | Take Ventura County , whence came the 12 jurors — six men , six women , six Republicans , six Democrats , 10 white , one Hispanic , one Asian-American , eight having served in the army — who acquitted the cops . |