Example sentences of "[noun] come [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the bushes came a low snort and the scraping of branches . |
| 2 | From out of the terrible confusion came a different voice , a gentle voice , a voice that understood . |
| 3 | And there were fires , too , on the skyline above them , while on the wind came the mournful blast of a trumpet . |
| 4 | To his right wing the hills sloped gently down and were of little interest but on his left they formed a steep escarpment up whose side came a soaring wind . |
| 5 | Through hidden speakers came the rhythmic itch of cicadas . |
| 6 | Down came the huge paw . |
| 7 | A naked woman squatted there , her face hidden behind a black veil ; from her mouth came a foul toad and round her neck curled an amber snake , its red-slit eyes flashing like diamonds . |
| 8 | Into his mind came a sudden vision of a classroom at Commonweal School , with motes of chalk-dust swirling in shafts of sunlight . |
| 9 | Before she had time to assimilate anything , from the top of the gangway came a terrible growl — deep , huge , more frightening in its ferocity than any wild animal she 'd ever heard . |
| 10 | Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart . |
| 11 | But the real matiness of Ken came a short while later . |
| 12 | With the environments came a new piece of jargon ; WYSIWYG . |
| 13 | He sped away with them still on amber , narrowly avoiding a car coming the other way . |
| 14 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |
| 15 | We 're going down this road and John was in front of me and just as John went past this wagon it pulled out and there was a car coming the other way . |
| 16 | just gon na have to you know be stopped there anyway this young lad after the first fast bend he went to overtake and I could see a car coming the other way and he was like er running along side this pick-up but it was like he could n't drop back and he could n't make it either |
| 17 | Stephen saw the police cars coming a long way off , three of them in a convoy coming up the white road from Hilderbridge . |
| 18 | At its top the uterus is two inches across , and from each side come the fallopian tubes , themselves about 4½ inches in length , which serve as the channel down which the ovum travels from the ovaries , which are situated at the far end of the fallopian tubes . |
| 19 | do n't that put you off when drivers come the other way and you 've got right of way and they always go , and they go past |
| 20 | New from Frisk comes a complete airbrush system . |
| 21 | FROM THE home of the original Bambaataa the chieftain who led the last great Zulu revolt against white rule comes the African Hip Hop Movement . |
| 22 | Berkshire comes a close second . |
| 23 | Berkshire comes a close second . |
| 24 | With the elimination of political opposition comes a virtual elimination of cultural alternatives . |
| 25 | In the next instant came a great flash . |
| 26 | With that decision came the near certainty , strenuously denied at the time , that Aden would grow into a fully fledged military base . |
| 27 | The Labour government lost office in 1951 , however , to be replaced by a Conservative one , and with this change came a different approach to economic policy which included the revival of monetary methods of control — in particular the manipulation of bank rate and associated interest rates . |
| 28 | And out of the dark woods came the black man , leading his horse on one arm , and on the other a tall grey hound with the saddest face I have ever seen on any creature . |
| 29 | A year ago they would have replied in kind ; now from a hundred throats came the new cry : ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ with if anything even greater fervour . |
| 30 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |